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Stonemason content - Planet Alpine - Planet Lava

lenwilderlenwilder Posts: 188
edited September 2016 in The Commons

I was looking at these and they appear to have the same props with different terrain and views.

My interest is in the buildings, not the lava or the ice. 

Is there a best choice or is one of them required for the other .

I undersand planet Lava was release first...so is it required for complet Planet Alpine.

My principal interest would be the Planet Alpine.

Will the following Stonemason terrain export?

Is there a height map icluded or possible to extract from the files?

Or is possible to export or work with these terrains using Carrara or Bryce?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,378

    The terrain is fixed geoemtry, not a height map - you could of course export as OBJ (I think that's a product that's DS-only, so no OBJ is incouded) but the textures were at least semi procedural so they won't easily export (you could try using Shader  Baker). I don't have the Planet sets to comment on thsoe.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,559

    Well I only have planet lava and it has everything shown,  I have rendered just the terrain in Carrara using Octane in this video with the texture animated but it does include the buildings.

     

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479

    The short answer is you will need both products to get the Planet Alpine textures for the building. Now's the time, if you also buy one (or better yet, three,) PA Festival new releases this weekend. However, if you are on a budget, you "might" be able to use shaders on the building to get a similar look. I don't have either of these, so I don't know if it's possible.

    Anyway, from the description for Planet Alpine:

    Hell freezes over in this shader expansion for Planet Lava... Planet Alpine takes us to a frozen land where every surface is frosted over and layered in snow.

    It would help a lot if the product page showed Planet Lava as a required product for Planet Alpine, and/or if Planet Alpine was listed as an add-on on the Planet Lava page. However, both products are older. I suspect they predate the current cart software, and updating all products from the previous software for "required" and "addon" items would be a gargantuan effort. As this has come up, perhaps they will update these two items.

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,559

    In case you are wondering I created several filtered images of the terrain map in gimp and warped between them using a filter that does so creating layers I exported as an image series.

  • bad4ubad4u Posts: 684
    edited September 2016

    Planet Alpine explicitely states under notes "This product comes with all the files needed, Planet Lava is not required.".

     

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  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    edited September 2016
    bad4u said:

    Planet Alpine explicitely states under notes "This product comes with all the files needed, Planet Lava is not required.".

    Interesting...

    I didn't get that far down the page, after seeing "shader expansion for Planet Lava." Seems to me the two statements conflict. However, the price being the same on both would imply the second statement is the true one. Usually the texture packs for a product cost less than the required product. Once again, these are older products. Perhaps somewhere down the line, Stonemason decided to make Planet Alpine a standalone, but no one thought to update the description... One of the drawbacks, I suppose, of having an online store with over 22-thousand products listed. Things like this are bound to slip through.

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  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    I have both and, I believe, one is not required to use the other, but it's been awhile since I had either of them loaded and I can't check as I have a render going.  From what I remember, I started with Planet Alpine because that was the one I liked the best and only picked up the other during a sale later, well, because it was Stonemason and a great set.  I don't think I've actually even rendered Planet Lava yet.  I don't know about the exporting it as .obj as I haven't had a need to do that.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,081

    Lava is not needed for Alpine.

  • myotherworldmyotherworld Posts: 650

    Also

    Planet Alpine

    Compatible Software:

    DSON Importer for Poser, DAZ Studio 4.9, DAZ Studio, Poser

    yes its POSER

  • lenwilderlenwilder Posts: 188
    edited September 2016

    1)  Do the Planet Lava or Planet Alpine have door/s for characters to enter and exit the prop?

    2) The large 2 buildings shown in the center with a fortress type wall around their area...is this set in stone?

    Can you use the buildings, props and fortress wall as you please or is it a preset arrangement?

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  • thistledownsnamethistledownsname Posts: 1,336

    There are doors but they don't open.

    There are a few windows that show minimal interior, but they're mostly for distance shots.

  • HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,665
    edited March 2019

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    edited March 2019

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