Looking for a large English country estate
kyoto kid
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...so I'm still looking of a large English country estate home. I was hoping that Anderson Hall would be an ongoing theme kind of like the Dream Home but the Anderson Vesutble add on was the only other set based on that theme. OK I know these old eccentric homes were large, in some cases very large often having dozens of rooms. My modelling skills are defintely not up to the task of creating more than a simple prop based off primitives let alone a large 18th or 19th century manor house with a library, study, ballroom, formal dining room, welcoming room, kitchen, music room, wine cellar, and a number of various parlours/bedrooms. As a single model it would probably be frightningly expensive, but done in a modular fashion, again like the Dream Home, would be make it more affrodable.
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I'm currently dealing with a similar problem - putting together a 1920's boarding school - but I'm not even hoping to find a single product, or series of products that slots together like the dream home does.
I've used Chateau Blanche for the exterior (which seems to have disappeared from the store, I could have used Blenworth instead), and am just getting to grips with picking products for the interior. Possibilities include the various Winterblack Halls (Jack's new corridor set is going to be super useful), Anderson Hall & Vestibule, Rosemill Moor, The Library, The Study, Mage Tower, Reflections Room Iray - and that's just what I've identified this morning. A lot of those big country houses were built (and/or subsequently remodelled) a bit at a time, so it's OK to have a bit of a mixture of styles.
...I have the following:
Anderson Hall
Rosemill Moor and Rosemill Moor 2
The Library
Magnus Manor
The Library
The Ballroom (with optional textures)
The Study
Winterblack Halls
Winterblack Tower
Vaulted Hall
Baroque Grandeur
Chapter House
Mage Tower
The Grand Staircase
The Private Garden
Great for interior scenes but no exterior setting that looks proper for a large eccentric country manor like this (and both Lady Meg and her late husband Lord Reg are quite eccentric):
Jack Tomalin's Rural Chateau pieces can also help for interiors. The only thing I can think of that remotely works for exterior that's in the store now would be Swedish Baroque Castle (https://www.daz3d.com/swedish-baroque-castle). I've also used Casual's Castle Sceaux for something vaguely similar (https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjcastlexiii), although that was for a closer shot than you're talking about.
If you're willing to deal with Poser props, there are a couple of "mansion" exteriors products at Renderosity, one by 3-d-c and one RPublishing (that one is fairly old and the roof UVs are a bit wonky). 3-d-c also has an "asylum" exterior that can work when you resurface it (i turned it into a small library exterior).
you could probably instance a few buildings and towers together and top them with sets like this
https://www.daz3d.com/divinity-skies-prophecy
the Castle creator bits come to mind
https://www.daz3d.com/grimwood-manor could also be instanced
Ooh, Burghley House, that's about an hour's drive from here. It's actually late 16th century (those turrets at the top have a distinctly Tudor shape to them) though worked on and added to in the succeeding centuries. It's odd that in Daz land we have a lot of castles and other medieval buildings, and a lot of modern buildings, but nothing much in between. At least you can cobble together something that looks Victorian gothic from bits of castles, but what if you want something like this? (also a short drive from me):
Googling I was surprised no Turbosquid jaw dropping priced version of thd Burghley House, in fact none anywhere even though they have virtual tours, countless drone videos and no shortage of images, even the floor plans.
No 3D warehouse model even, and streeview does not get near it to make one in Sketchup.
Looking I don't think it would be too hard to knock up the facia though from castle bits and add some of those various DAZ original spires and roof toppers
some more kitbash able bits
https://www.daz3d.com/divinity-skies-oracle
https://www.daz3d.com/eminence
https://www.daz3d.com/fantasy-castle-2011-castle-surround
https://www.daz3d.com/blenworth
I did a point cloud reconstruction using Youtube drone footage in 3DF Zephyr just out of curiousity
If you should check out BlueTreeStudio's Modular Mansion series over at renderosity, especially when it goes on sale or when there is a dicount. It's more from the Victorian era, but it may help you.
I've had mixed results with some other shops' architecture, where lots of materials are all in one zone and mesh that won't subdivide nicely.
So, fair warning; buy cautiously until you know it's going to pan out.
How about MCasual's New Castle?
How about MCasual's New Castle? Or Vcerniceck's Chateau over at Rendo?
PS: sorry about the double post. Thought I was in edit mode. D'oh.
apparently you dress like this in such estates
Thanks for pointing me in this direction. I have the Rural Chateau Sets and always wondered, what I can take from the outside. The Swedish Baroque Castle is certainly a starting point.
...that is a pretty impressive one as well.
There were a couple similar large manor's here in the US near Philadelphia, Lynnewood Hall, that was abandoned and and currently being considered for renovation
...and Whitremarsh Hall which also was abandoned, fell into a terrible state of disrepaire and eventually was demolished.
I looked on other sites as well (including TS) even considering some of the older public building models they had that could be used as a large county manor but were either well outside my budget or not in .obj format,
I think these are great sets, maybe not as large as what you have in mind, but beautifully modelled;)
https://www.daz3d.com/tuscan-villa
https://www.daz3d.com/antebellum-mansion
I've recently bought this one
https://www.daz3d.com/blenworth
I still think Blenworth and a few bits of castle construction kits and those various spires and toppers you could create a reasonable facade, it's not like you are going to fly a virtual drone around it.
https://www.facebook.com/1653360584/posts/10216262020577189/
....the issue with Benworth is is most of the interior sets I use don't match up very well (or at all) with it's archetecture and window treatments. it would take a level of kitbashing that even beyond my ability.
....I have the Tuscan Villa on my withist for scenes back in Croatia (much of the older architecture in the Balkans particularly near the Adriatic coast is fairly similar). The Antebellum Mansion (also on the WL for other works) is too distinctively "American South" for an English country house.
Most older UK country manors were generally built in Neo Classical, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Georgian, Victorian (UK), or French Chateau style (and variants within).
...OK been shopping around and CG trader has a pretty nice sale going. Found a few possibilities that are reasonable eccentric:
Low poly but nice detail
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/exterior/historic/low-poly-chateau-castle-inspired-by-chateau-de-chambord-pbr-bc84eb1f-690a-4d50-8699-bc4733d50dd9
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/exterior/historic/low-poly-chateau-castle-inspired-by-chateau-de-chambord-pbr
This one a smaller and bit more expensive but nicely modelleddd9
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/exterior/historic/grand-palace-f41c856b-4392-47f4-9667-1a52af12936f
This one very eccentric
https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/architectural/other/castle-5abca98c-cc96-4d0c-8898-9d20fbfc7a28
see nothing there I couldn't whip up with castle creator and some of those PC+ toppers
...most English county manors from the 18th and 19th century look more like large mansions than fortified castles . Not sure how to get all the windows in.
Incidentally, I do have it, don't remember when I bought it.
The dome on the third one down looks almost exactly like Divinity Skies Ascension: https://www.daz3d.com/divinity-skies-ascension; that said, Ascension is only the dome and part of the tower, not the entire castle. Might work to stick that in the middle of Blenworth or Swedish Baroque Castle.
That last one is impressive. It must have taken ages to model. Also, that's one hell of a lot of castle.
This could almost work if it were a couple floors taller: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/victorian-train-station-poser-obj-amp-lwo-/55091/
That said, it's old and almost certainly has wonky UVs.
Of those posted I think mCasual's New Castle is most like what most people consider an 'English Manor'. Something like what you posted a picture of or the Blenworth product most people would consider castles, although technically those are manors now too when use like a manor.
...that's pretty impressive. Didn't know about that one. Thanks.
Very pricey but have you looked at KitBash3D? There is a Victorian model. https://kitbash3d.com/products/victorian
Edit: Appears to be exterior only, sorry.
...yeah only need one structure (the middle one in the centre left of the entire set looks the best). Wish my modelling skills were better but that will take years.
I'm not sure if this is of any help since it is for Carrara.
https://www.daz3d.com/an-english-village
It's got a lot of country side as well as a great looking English Hall.