Exterior of West Park and the grounds
katherinepoche_e11a5b0e7e
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I've been slowly collecting the West Park rooms, but it would be cool to have an exterior of it with the surrounding grounds (green spaces, parking lots, sidewalks, gates etc).
Both new and abandoned!
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Agreed!!!
And maybe a nurse's station/place for attendants to dispense medications.
Yup, though truthfully I am more interested in the clean textures/versions. I want to do a project set in a modern-day psych ward and am hoping to use West Park. The West Park Ward could use some updating as well.
Have you seen the East Park sets? They cover the first few installments of West Park (West Park, West Park Lobby, West Park Ward), and a couple for West Park High School, which could be used with the others.
Yes! I have some of them, and some of the "clinical" texture sets as well.
I've used the building in Prison Yard as an exterior for West Park. The windows aren't exactly the same, but close enough for use in a background.
I think Jack Tomalin has stated before that West Park Does not fit together like dream home did, so an exterior is a little harder
Yeah, the modular nature of West Park makes it difficult to make an exterior - because everybody's interior is different!
Another approach, then, is to make a modular exterior. I've done that before with a similar product from Rendo, but here's the same approach applied to West Park.
The idea is to take a cube primitive with enough divisions to allow you to cut out a window-sized hole with the geometry editor (mine is a 5m cube with 20 divisions, scaled slightly to fit). Then position West Park corridor window sections so the outside of the windows go into those holes. I've also added a couple more cubes to make lintels above the windows - more architectural details could be added if required. Apply some shaders and you get something like this:
You now have a building block that you can use to create lots of instances, and then stack them up to build a West Park exterior of your own design. Give it a flat concrete roof (another resized cube primitive), conjure up a door from somewhere to make an entrance block, and you're good to go.
If you want to be hyper-accurate, you could create appropriately sized, shaped and windowed building blocks from each of the West Park sets, so you have a Ward block, a Treatment Room block, etc. Personally, I wouldn't bother - I think the corridor windows look "west parky" enough to do service for everything - but your milage may vary.
I've attached my block below. If you have Mec4D's PBS Shaders Volume 2 as well as the the basic West Park set, it'll work straight out of the box. If you don't, you'll have to find your own brick and concrete shaders to use instead.
Riverside Hospital on Brother Island New York is the one that seems to match the best for me for the interiors on Google image search
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gsc.5a09792/
If you're looking for a real West Park, try this one: https://www.whateversleft.co.uk/asylums/west-park-mental-hospital
So spooky and atmospheric! But I always imagined the outside of West Park to be white, maybe made with cinder block instead of brick. Dirty and worn, for sure, but once-upon-a-time white, or maybe beige.
Also, what's with the pic of all the vacuums? Were they racing them or something?
No idea. Lots of Hoover Junior's there though. When I bought my first house my parents gave me one of their wedding presents, a Hoover Junior. I kept it until my MIL gave my wife & I a much better Vax. Strange seeing the Junior again.
Regards,
Richard
I grew up at Belmont in Surrey, now classed as being in Greater London. My dad worked as a steam boiler stoker in the Belmont/Henderson hospital which was one of the many old gothic psychiatric hospitals in Surrey and had been a former workhouse in Victorian times. From our house we had almost exactly this view of the Belmont Hospital:
A mile or two away near the village of Banstead was the Banstead psychiatric hospital which looked like this:
Then there was the Epsom cluster of psychiatric establishments which included the West Park one. There are more pictures and links from the Wikipedia pages for each of these hospitals.
A good way to find outsides for the Jack Tomalin West Park is by searching for "psychiatric hospital" on the Trimble/sketchup warehouse. Then edit the downloaded buildings in Sketchup. Also, if you have Carrara, there's a freeware plugin by Inagoni called Architools which can make buildings in Carrara and export them. Downloadable for free from github. https://github.com/Chaplier/inagoni/releases/tag/v1.0?fbclid=IwAR3lM3yptVqAqC6-z4AISXXDEboBuyb0Ipr54jOZbzzdFn44PQlPlegqgEk
Another way is to cheat. One time I used parts of the Dream Home, splattered it with grunge and pretended it was the outside of West Park. I put Grovebrook House in the background. It looks close enough if you're only driving in the gateway and then entering the front lobby.
It's quite an old product, but the building from this set makes a plausible exterior for West Park:
https://www.daz3d.com/prison-yard
Yes, that's what Eastern State Hospital looks like, or used to. It's there still but closed.
Look at this:
https://www.daz3d.com/darkwood-asylum
KindredArts made it. Maybe not 100% accurate, but all convincing to be an outside structure for the West Park interior.
This is an exciting release.
West Park has - from what i recall and a quick check against a couple of store items - has flat-top windows instead of arched, but from many scene angles that probably wouldn't be obvious and is the sort of thing even films and TV series get wrong.
Yes its not unusual for productions to use exterior shots of building that dont mach the interiors, the audiences suspension of disbelief is your friend :)