Urban Future 8 and 9
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Will StoneMason soon bring us Urban Future 8 and 9
We hope so...
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Still waiting on that Streets of Rome tho.
that looks like it is coming soooooon
YEAH
To Stone Mason.. : Any previews : D ?
Amen to that. My Sci-fi guys can choose between 50 different streets/ships/corridors to walk on; meanwhile my romans don't have a single street (just Protozoon Coliseum) neither a house interior to go in.
Well, there is one Greco-Roman street, Olympia Cityscape, but it's only for 3Delight and it consists of weird floating islands for some reason. You'll need to do a lot of work converting the materials, kitbashing it onto a normal ground plane, and putting in those little Stonemason details that make it look real.
If we really get it someday, hopefully is a "normal" street like the other ones in the series (London, Morocco and so on) and not the temples/marble version. You know, with its shops, taberns, private houses (domus, insula), and so on. There's literally nothing like that avalaible outside of VR reconstruction projects, which unfortunately are never for sale.
I must agree that would be super indeed.. Streets of Pompey ! Just before the year of destruction.
The Streets of Pompei wouldn't be suitable for the Daz store.
well Rome either if the graffiti and deco is accurate
Given roman's obssesion with phallic representations in either pictorical or figurine forms, the creator will need to be careful when choosing the angles for the promos
Isn't it funny how the Daz store has reached a level of puritanism that would make the more repressed of our victorian ancestors feel proud? I can picture the DAZ person in charge of reviewing the product having the same reaction of the original archaeologists at Pompeii: "Goodness gracious, what a suggestive and distasteful piece. Let's bury this in a box and pretend we never found it".
The puritans on the Mayflower would have made the repressed Victorians look like Libertines. And they are referred to as the 'Founding Fathers' of the US. There is deep history behind the attitudes displayed at DAZ, not something that is possible to change easily, even if such change were to be desired by those of whom change would be requested.
Regards,
Richard
While at the same time Hollywood is teaching rest of the world quite different ideas... (Just stating a fact)
And here it is... https://www.daz3d.com/urban-future-8
And it is absolutely SUPER Cool to work with !!!
https://www.daz3d.com/urban-future-8
Super angle..
In a way I love these S.F. products (in the years to come)
But streets of Ancient Rome
Streets of 17th Century Amsterdam
Streets of Prague (with the Art Nouveau) would be special too
The Galleria of Brussels
As for ancient Roman streets, alleys, and general buildings, there's a decent selection of them over on Renderosity. Also period furnitue and other objects.
We will have to differ on the "decent" part. Sure, those models and textures were not bad...for the Playstation 2 era. Now put them together on the same scene with a Gen 8 character, and no amount of bokeh in the world is going to redeem them. The only decent enviroment in Renderosity is AJ Atrium, and even for that most of the textures are tiny (vendor make the mistake of having single low resolution images covering all the walls/ceiling/etc.) leading to quite horrendous pixelations the moment you get the camera close.
Furniture wise, luckily XYZ 3Dassets has been releasing some quality sets lately on Sketchfab: good models, proper PBR materials and they cover the essential furniture in the living area of a roman house. But quality streets or interiors? Nil. Zero. Nada.
Specially sad because, for all its faults, finally thanks to dforce we can do proper renders of the period (good luck posing togas and tunic before that) and I was hoping for some enviroments to compliment Sickleyield and Deacon215 outfits... but alas, it was not to be.
As seen in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a Prague style city can be two products - first the straight up Art Nouveau setting, then another one with "future" sprinkled on top of it, leading into a really, REALLY interesting setting.
Stonemason's work is inspirational.
Literally.
I think I'm going to have to learn how to achieve some of this on my own. I'm working on a Steampunk story, and I will need to have a number of "alternative history" sets. Something like a world where the Europeans were explorers and traders instead of colonizers. As a result, North and South America would look VERY different. What would a Navajo city look like?
@donjaramillo, while not sure if this might be a starting point for you, it may inspire you if you project it into the future from when it was abandoned.
https://www.durango.com/mesa-verde/cliff-dwellings/