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KindredArts - Why No Curtains or Blinds?

marblemarble Posts: 7,500
edited February 2017 in The Commons

I've just bought a long-time wishlisted item - KindredArts European Suburb. It really is a faithful representation of that generation of British suburban homes - although I was a poor little council-house boy, I did have "rich" friends who lived in such homes. wink

Anyhow, I have one observation and it applies to certain other vendors too - why not put curtains or blinds on the windows?  All that effort to produce a great piece of architecture but it remains short of believeability because nobody lives in such a house without window coverings. These are not props that can be added from somewhere else - especially if, like this one, the windows happen to be bay style.

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  • exstarsisexstarsis Posts: 2,128

    Good questions although I feel obligated to point out I lived without curtains or blinds for a long time because of children and cats....

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    The house has blinds.. unless blinds are something different (in which case, the meaning got lost in translation...)

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914

    At least someone could release a set of curtains with length/width and open/close morphs

    Then they would fit any window, except maybe circular or octagonal ones.

    Triangle and diamond shaped windows too...

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    The picture of the house with blinds is the low-poly model used to populate the street. It doesn't have an interior. The model with an interior doesn't have those blinds (I wish it did).

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    I've lived in a house without window coverings.

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,666

    We always had net curtains that were fixed and covered the lower half of the window and opaque curtains that could be opened or closed over the entire window. This was in an ordinary terraced house, not a council house but certainly not rich.

     

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    My parents had the heavy curtains but didn't bother with nets as we lived right at the top of the street, and no one over looked us as there were no houses opposite, only waste ground and allotments.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    fastbike1 said:

    I've lived in a house without window coverings.

    Ok, there are clearly exceptions to the rule. Nevertheless, curtains or blinds are the norm and the house is short of an essential prop. I'm wondering whether the blinds in the low-poly house could be separated out as a prop?

  • exstarsisexstarsis Posts: 2,128

    It might be easiest to pretend the house has shades? You could mock those up with a little cylinder at the top. There might even be freebies out there. I remember the Contemporary Reading Lounge had an interesting approach to closeable shades.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,114
    marble said:
    fastbike1 said:

    I've lived in a house without window coverings.

    Ok, there are clearly exceptions to the rule. Nevertheless, curtains or blinds are the norm and the house is short of an essential prop. I'm wondering whether the blinds in the low-poly house could be separated out as a prop?

    Should be doable with the Geoemtry Editor - easily if the blinds have their own bone or surface group (just click on the + next to the group in the Tool Settings pane, right-click Geometry Visibility>Hide Unselected Polygons, right-click, Geometry Editing>Delete Hidden Polygons, File>Save as>Support Asset>Figure Prop Asset).

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    Some good ideas coming. Thanks.

    I like the roller blinds (shades) idea too, with a cyclinder (for the roll) and, perhaps a plane (for the drop). I might even try my first simple model in Blender though I'll need to learn how to get it from Blender into DAZ Studio as a prop. I guess, I'd need to make the scale match, export as an .obj, import into DS and save - as Richard mentions above - as a Figure Prop Asset?

     

  • Peter FulfordPeter Fulford Posts: 1,325
    fastbike1 said:

    I've lived in a house without window coverings.

    'Ouse? You were lucky.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1by0-nkKOTs

     

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited February 2017

    Lol - I don't even need to go to YouTube to know what you mean. I AM a Yorkshireman (at least, I grew up in Sheffield) and I used to know that sketch by heart - as did many my age. I was born in Lincolnshire to be more precise.

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  • KindredArtsKindredArts Posts: 1,332

    This is quite a good point, i never really thought about it before. I added blinds the the low-poly house prop simply to limit the view of the interior. As for the high-poly house, i imagined people using their own curtains, furnishings and props. Perhaps that was a bit short-sighted in retrospect, i'll make sure they are included in the future. smiley

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,638

    You can do as Richard explained or you can use the bridge and take low poly version into Hexagon and delete everything but the blinds and make them a prop.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    KindredArts said:

    This is quite a good point, i never really thought about it before. I added blinds the the low-poly house prop simply to limit the view of the interior. As for the high-poly house, i imagined people using their own curtains, furnishings and props. Perhaps that was a bit short-sighted in retrospect, i'll make sure they are included in the future. smiley

    Great to see a reply from you, KA. By the way, the set is excellent even without curtains and especially using your Ghost Lights to speed up interior renders.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    Silver Dolphin said:

    You can do as Richard explained or you can use the bridge and take low poly version into Hexagon and delete everything but the blinds and make them a prop.

    I would try Hexagon but I can't get it to stay on the screen for more than 10 minutes. That's why I mentioned Blender. 

  • KindredArtsKindredArts Posts: 1,332
    marble said:
    KindredArts said:

    This is quite a good point, i never really thought about it before. I added blinds the the low-poly house prop simply to limit the view of the interior. As for the high-poly house, i imagined people using their own curtains, furnishings and props. Perhaps that was a bit short-sighted in retrospect, i'll make sure they are included in the future. smiley

    Great to see a reply from you, KA. By the way, the set is excellent even without curtains and especially using your Ghost Lights to speed up interior renders.

    Thanks marble, glad you like it. It's very similar to the house i grew up in, i was born on the west coast (Blackpool). Our's was a touch more dilapidated though, but it was home all the same.

  • exstarsisexstarsis Posts: 2,128

    Right, I remember now how the Reading Lounge worked. The shade was a plane (I think) and the Scale Y slider had been renamed Open/Close. I though that was clever. 

  • 3WC3WC Posts: 1,140

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/149546/freebies-from-yhzmurphy

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited March 2017
    wwes said:

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/149546/freebies-from-yhzmurphy

    Good find. :)

    EDIT: I imported that prop but it comes in as a single piece with wall and window frame attached.

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