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  • Salem2007Salem2007 Posts: 513
    edited May 2015

    One more, just because this set is so much fun!

    @Stonemason: Is a snowy add-on still in the pipeline?

    Mr Hyde (click for bigger):

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  • PhloxPhlox Posts: 95
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for this great set Stonemason, I've missed London since moving five years back, it's nice to have a corner of it to play in again :)

  • mrposermrposer Posts: 1,134
    edited December 1969

    This is a great set which I will use often. Here is a render of a night scene with a guy walking by a streetlight in London and a cat nearby.

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  • ValkeerieValkeerie Posts: 163
    edited December 1969

    Great set, I think it is going to be overused :-) I did several renders last night and found issues, one good, and one less good. The good issue is that the textures are so good a lot of other Daz content looks toonish by comparison. I added some figures and they looked like they were badly photoshopped because of the quality difference.

    The other issue is that many textures (e.g. brickwork) reflect like mirrors when light strikes them at a glancing angle. I've attached a render that shows this. The buttresses supporting the bridgework are reflecting white, and on close up are reasonable mirrors. I've found the same thing with flagstones - they look like polished Carrara marble.

    What we need now is a larger set of Penny Dreadfullish clothing. The recent Vintage Rose dress is great BTW.

    Thanks,
    Valkeerie

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 942
    edited December 1969

    Absolutely gorgeous, as always. Thank you.

    Here is an overhead view. The little square at the top is Big Ben

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  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,533
    edited December 1969

    valkeerie said:
    Great set, I think it is going to be overused :-) I did several renders last night and found issues, one good, and one less good. The good issue is that the textures are so good a lot of other Daz content looks toonish by comparison. I added some figures and they looked like they were badly photoshopped because of the quality difference.

    The other issue is that many textures (e.g. brickwork) reflect like mirrors when light strikes them at a glancing angle. I've attached a render that shows this. The buttresses supporting the bridgework are reflecting white, and on close up are reasonable mirrors. I've found the same thing with flagstones - they look like polished Carrara marble.

    What we need now is a larger set of Penny Dreadfullish clothing. The recent Vintage Rose dress is great BTW.

    Thanks,
    Valkeerie

    I'm presuming that this is an Iray render. The Streets are optimised for 3Delight.
    Stonemason did say he was going to try and get some Iray presets done.
    For now try reducing any reflection and the specular and increasing the bump or/and displacement.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,402
    edited December 1969

    Have a look in the gallery, guys. It's rapidly becoming infested with this set. My first render is running at the moment and I hope to post it tomorrow morning.

    Head for the hills! Run for your lives! The dragon is coming. And he's bringing his mistress, who's even scarier than he is.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,010
    edited December 1969

    I want to do better stuff with characters and storylines but for now here is my quick video in Octane render for Carrara just testing lighting and shader tweaks, two street sections need UV wrap unchecked in vertex room UV mapping and most surfaces needed highlight reduced or removed using Fenrics shader doctor plugin or manually.
    I made all the lamp bulbs texture emitters.
    Saved after tweaking ready to reuse.

  • MusicplayerMusicplayer Posts: 515
    edited May 2015

    I've been having some great fun with 'The Streets Of Old London'....so here is my 'period' postcard render.

    Rendered using Iray in Daz Studio 4.8 Pro.

    Cheers :-)

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  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    valkeerie said:
    Great set, I think it is going to be overused :-) I did several renders last night and found issues, one good, and one less good. The good issue is that the textures are so good a lot of other Daz content looks toonish by comparison. I added some figures and they looked like they were badly photoshopped because of the quality difference.

    The other issue is that many textures (e.g. brickwork) reflect like mirrors when light strikes them at a glancing angle. I've attached a render that shows this. The buttresses supporting the bridgework are reflecting white, and on close up are reasonable mirrors. I've found the same thing with flagstones - they look like polished Carrara marble.

    What we need now is a larger set of Penny Dreadfullish clothing. The recent Vintage Rose dress is great BTW.

    Thanks,
    Valkeerie

    When I first saw this I said 'Wow...wet streets. What a nice effect. How did you do that? Which renderer?' It looks so real to me I could smell the damp.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,402
    edited December 1969

    I downloaded and installed DAZ Studio 4.8 yesterday morning and here's my first more or less successful render. I'm not entirely happy with the lighting but I think the rest of it works quite well. I will shortly be posting a larger version in The Perfect Warrior directory in my gallery.

    Captain Serena, the most feared warrior in the Emperor’s Elite Guard, and her almost as scary sidekick, Cecil, appear to have a problem.

    “Er, excuse me boss but are you quite sure we’re in the right universe? Shouldn’t we have turned right at Atlantis, instead of left? And why are all those people running away from us, screaming in terror?”

    Cheers

    Alex.

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  • nDelphinDelphi Posts: 1,918
    edited December 1969

    alexhcowley said:

    Captain Serena, the most feared warrior in the Emperor’s Elite Guard, and her almost as scary sidekick, Cecil, appear to have a problem.

    That's one husky Captain alright. LOL!

  • Fire AngelFire Angel Posts: 273
    edited December 1969

    How long is this reduced for? No way I can make any discretionary purchases until I get paid, but that's a few days away. I hope to get it as soon as I get paid otherwise this will be on my wish-list until it's at a similar price again, and that may be a long time. It will be a painful wait.

  • ValkeerieValkeerie Posts: 163
    edited December 1969

    Spit said:
    valkeerie said:
    Great set, I think it is going to be overused :-) I did several renders last night and found issues, one good, and one less good. The good issue is that the textures are so good a lot of other Daz content looks toonish by comparison. I added some figures and they looked like they were badly photoshopped because of the quality difference.

    The other issue is that many textures (e.g. brickwork) reflect like mirrors when light strikes them at a glancing angle. I've attached a render that shows this. The buttresses supporting the bridgework are reflecting white, and on close up are reasonable mirrors. I've found the same thing with flagstones - they look like polished Carrara marble.

    What we need now is a larger set of Penny Dreadfullish clothing. The recent Vintage Rose dress is great BTW.

    Thanks,
    Valkeerie

    When I first saw this I said 'Wow...wet streets. What a nice effect. How did you do that? Which renderer?' It looks so real to me I could smell the damp.

    It is Iray, no tweaks to the model. The wet-street sheen is an artefact - as another poster indicates, the surfaces may need tweeking in IRay. As the model was released with 4.8, I (wrongly) assumed the textures would have been optimised for IRay.

    Valkeerie

    Valkeerie

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,586
    edited December 1969

    Fire Angel said:
    How long is this reduced for? No way I can make any discretionary purchases until I get paid, but that's a few days away. I hope to get it as soon as I get paid otherwise this will be on my wish-list until it's at a similar price again, and that may be a long time. It will be a painful wait.

    Today's Daz email said the 48% sale "ends tonight" but who knows what they'll do tomorrow - 48% off "selected products" cos it's joyous June maybe? I was in a similar predicament when they did the plants sale recently. I thought I'd missed it, but they brought it back a few days later. Waiting is always a crap-shoot with Daz sales - sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. But regardless, you can be sure that one day there will be another sale.

  • XenomorphineXenomorphine Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    Tim_A said:
    Fire Angel said:
    How long is this reduced for? No way I can make any discretionary purchases until I get paid, but that's a few days away. I hope to get it as soon as I get paid otherwise this will be on my wish-list until it's at a similar price again, and that may be a long time. It will be a painful wait.

    Today's Daz email said the 48% sale "ends tonight" but who knows what they'll do tomorrow - 48% off "selected products" cos it's joyous June maybe? I was in a similar predicament when they did the plants sale recently. I thought I'd missed it, but they brought it back a few days later. Waiting is always a crap-shoot with Daz sales - sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. But regardless, you can be sure that one day there will be another sale.

    I think they were referring to the Stonemason set's introductory discount.

  • rg5arg5a Posts: 74
    edited December 1969

    No Poser version? :-(

    A real pity, I wanted this...

  • Fire AngelFire Angel Posts: 273
    edited May 2015

    Xenomorphine said:
    Tim_A said:
    Fire Angel said:
    How long is this reduced for? No way I can make any discretionary purchases until I get paid, but that's a few days away. I hope to get it as soon as I get paid otherwise this will be on my wish-list until it's at a similar price again, and that may be a long time. It will be a painful wait.

    Today's Daz email said the 48% sale "ends tonight" but who knows what they'll do tomorrow - 48% off "selected products" cos it's joyous June maybe? I was in a similar predicament when they did the plants sale recently. I thought I'd missed it, but they brought it back a few days later. Waiting is always a crap-shoot with Daz sales - sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. But regardless, you can be sure that one day there will be another sale.

    I think they were referring to the Stonemason set's introductory discount.
    It's unlikely that this particular item will be reduced so much in the near future. I have a course of study to finance as well, the books for the next module have stretched this month's finances, so I am too poor to get it until May's payment comes through, sometime in the next few days. Could be Monday, could be Friday. It looks like I'll have to wait for this set if tonight's really the last night of this sale.

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  • ElowanElowan Posts: 388
    edited June 2015

    Razor 42 said:
    Gratz Stonemason, this set looks incredible!

    I agree. Looking forward to Urban Sprawl III as well.

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  • ElowanElowan Posts: 388
    edited June 2015

    Musicplayer said:
    I have just purchased The Streets Of Old London, it is a large scene set, yet surprisingly is extremely moveable on my old computer with just a 256 mb video chip. :ohh:

    I love Stonemason's work, and have several of his products, but I think to date, for me, this HAS to be his finest. The level of detail in the streets, the brickwork, the interiors of rooms and shops as seen from the streets, etc....the list goes on and on.... Truly amazing !

    Thank you Stonemason, this must have taken you ages to build and texture, and the introductory price is very generous. This is going to be a very useful prop resource because there are so many different buildings and scene possibilities, etc to choose from.

    Very much appreciated, and hope you get many, many sales.

    Kind regards,

    :-)

    The most incredible work I've acquired to date! Well worth the price (even if I had to give up on pizza for a bit). Even got a back pat from my wife! If you're looking for good 'early' or Gothic props and environment - this is the one!

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  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    Stonemason said:
    I didn't even think to include an .mtl..guess I could export from DS and it'll include an .mtl?..will try to get an update in next week

    Any chance on that update with mtl files? Please????? Pretty please????? Pretty please with chocolate on top?????

  • Fire AngelFire Angel Posts: 273
    edited December 1969

    OK, got it. Waiting now for that MTL file update, please, when is that actually going to happen? It's needed.

  • myotherworldmyotherworld Posts: 648

    "Waiting now for that MTL file update, please, when is that actually going to happen?"#

    So Has this happened yet?

  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    JaguarElla said:

    I want to do better stuff with characters and storylines but for now here is my quick video in Octane render for Carrara just testing lighting and shader tweaks, two street sections need UV wrap unchecked in vertex room UV mapping and most surfaces needed highlight reduced or removed using Fenrics shader doctor plugin or manually.
    I made all the lamp bulbs texture emitters.
    Saved after tweaking ready to reuse.

    Great video, makes you realise just how huge a set this is. I have a Jeff Wayne Martian war machine in my Runtime and it'd be so at home there.

    CHEERS!

  • IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159
    edited July 2015
    Richard Haseltine said:

     

    nobody1954 said:

    I've been reading the original Sherlock Holmes stories. This will come in very handy. Thank you very much.

     

     

     

    With some additional props would also work for The Avengers (the real ones, not the Marvell ones).

    Both outstanding.  Patrick Macnee was SO very cool as JS. Holmes - I gotta go with the BBC series from 84. I've got the complete collection by Doyle in one big volume and on my kindle.

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  • ByrdieByrdie Posts: 1,783

    Still waiting to buy this, has it been updated yet?

  • myotherworldmyotherworld Posts: 648

    just redownloaded and no it has not been updated yet.

    so if your not useing DS

    you aree looking at a lot of work getting it in to poser.

    if it is worth all that work, is down to you.

    as for me I wish I had gotten my money back

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited July 2015

    There's a Streets of Old London Obj file in my DIM. Been there a while. Unless you're talking about something else?

    or perhaps that file is hidden by your filters?

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  • RogerbeeRogerbee Posts: 4,460
    edited July 2015

    Below is a Jeff Wayne Martian War Machine, I can't wait for it to tower over the streets. I obtained it from Clive Pygott some years ago, it used to be a free download on a site he had, I got to it via Renderosity's Freestuff page, but, the site was defunct and the link was dead, it did, however, have his email address, so, I contacted him and he sent me a zip. Derrin Proctor did the original model and Clive rigged it. By today's standards it's a bit crude and it's untextured. I spruced it up with the AoA shader and used the Shader Mixer fractal sum on the eye domes and it looks pretty good. Derrin is on Deviant Art, so maybe you could contact him about it: http://proteus6007.deviantart.com/

    I don't know if Clive is still around

    CHEERS!

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  • LindseyLindsey Posts: 2,008

    If you're wanting to use the Streets of Old London in Poser and you have DAZ Studio and the DSON Importer for Poser installed, create your own Poser Companion files.  the product will import into Poser as a scene as shown here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/828656/#Comment_828656  Beats having to manually load and place up to 98 objects into your own scene.

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