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+1 to this. I would love to have more elements like this. I had to go to Turbosquid to buy a "country" gas station. While DAZ does have one, it didn't quite fit the need I had.
If someone decides to do this sort of thing, may I make a request. Please offer a compete building (props and everything pre-loaded), and an empty building, so we can customize the inside to suit.
Your work speaks for itself. As I said, been following you since you started in the Daz Store, have most of your freebies from way back and any time I have spare money and they are on sale, then I buy. Really annoyed at missing the one's in the Fast Grab recently, but helping my son right now, he didn't make enough for rent last month, he's almost caught up and has a very understanding landlord thankfully...children needing help never ends lol.
I call it 'The Bank of Mom'. I was it for 10 or 15 years for my son.
I love drystone walling. Near my parent's house in Devon there was a drystone bridge over the river. No-one knows how old it is, but fragmentary records from the 1400's mention the bridge having a repair to it. It needs repairs every century or so. At some point in the 20th century it was decided to point the walling on either side of the road, otherwise it's still a drystone bridge that goes under water several times a winter. I did repairs on nearby walling too. At least one of the field boundaries on the farm is neolithic with a drystone wall inside the bank at the core of the hedge. We can confidently say Neolithic because some archeologists from English Heritage came round, dug into the bank having got all excited about the hedge diversity of flora. They then took carbon datable samples from the earth under the wall inside the hedge and wrote to us to say '3500 BC +/- 130years'. The house dated to about 1600, so it'd only been there for a mere flash of time compared to the field boundary.
Back to topic How does one define realism?
To me, the bridge in the photo below isn't far different from Faeryl Woman's render, so I think it's amazing. However, I do know others say it's not. Maybe different standards apply depending on life experience.
But.. 'Stonemason' in my eyes is a byword for quality & usability. I just wish my wallet had a larger capacity than it seems to have.
Regards,
Richard.
It's a generic enough builidng that with a changing some signage, small details, and colors it would be perfectly fine. I'd love to get my claws on it.
I would be totally okay with empty insides, or those could be add-ons. I have lots of store interior props, but hardly any exteriors.
A "Streets of New Zealand" would be totally cool. I was lucky enough to visit a few years back and there's lots to go with.
Maybe the blend of western USA and art deco that you get in places like Geraldine on the South Island. The architecture stuck in my head, and also the fact that that's where a guy made a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry out of bits of knitting machines, because... why not?
Or, for the more full-on art deco experience, Napier or Hastings on the North Island. Both hit by earthquakes in the 1920s and completely rebuilt in the then-fashionable style. Don't miss the little park in Hastings with a railway track running through the middle of it.
Be still my beating heart! I would LOVE that and a whole bunch of NZ trees...kauri, rimu, totara, pohutukawa. I grab every RHD drive car that pops up in the store, and anything else that even remotely resembles mine own country. And Stonemason making a set of NZ streets. I would die happy :)
If I don't buy your products the day they come out, I snag them as soon as they go on sale. Gosh, I even still have Darkstar in my Poser folder!! Love everythig you make and am in awe of the fact that you are actually a real stonemason!
LOL I don't give him money, I buy extra food and have him over for supper a lot so he does't have to buy much food. He is very good at being generous with me when he gets a month with a good income and his tax returns, so it all balances out in the end.
...reminds me a bit of side streets off St Charles and Carrolton in New Orleans
...I'd go for that, particularly "back streets" like above .
could easily pass for suburban Adelaide too or probably Melbourne etc
the Deli or as they call them MilkBar has disappeared from many a street and that chippie could be either with different signage
I'm not confident streets of NZ would be a good seller, but we do have a lot of small towns like Geraldine, towns that have that 1950's USA feel to them, so much so that many films based in that era are filmed here..so I could see myself doing something like that,
but our cities are pretty generic and boring with Napier being a rare exception to that rule, they've done a great job of preserving and celebrating the art deco style. Art Deco is a style I love but have never made any content in that style.
..Streets of Napier? I love art deco, I'd buy it.
I'd be more inclined to do a Streets of Miami, similar style...and let's be honest, nobody has heard of Napier before
What if instead of a specific location, you did a generic streets of, where the buildings could be applied anywhere?
This! A small town of shops that extend out into housing, schools, generic business areas, hotels, motels, parks... Or the pieces to put together as we wish to design a town for our needs? Maybe releasing bits over a period of time so you don't have to devote a huge amount of time, nor the full set cost too much in one go?
And for what it is worth, one of my joys with 3d is exploring from my computer areas of the world I have not had the opportunity to travel to. A 'Streets of New Zealand' (your choice of streets) would be snatched up first day. I also would love to see more of your landscape as well.
Since my son graduated high school, he has been in the U.S. Army, college, work, more college, moving for work, and a family. Now deployed for work. We have been separated by hundreds or thousands of miles. I last saw him and his family in 2019 before Covid. He is an engineer and gets deployed to disaster areas for recoveries and I'm pretty proud of him.
I'd love a Streets of Art Deco.
I love how this thread started out as a minor complaint and has turned into free advertising for Stonemason -- speaks to the quality of his products. I only own a few, but would probably have them all if money were no object.
Same, and if I can't buy them at the moment, at least I wishlist them all.
I second this.
Yup, Streets of A Small Town would be wonderful.
In the meantime, there's KB3D's Americana, which lacks streets, but you can borrow from Stonemason, FirstBastion, or Mountain Valley.
Bookmarking stonemason? I remember the name now...
Boring... This is boring?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ELVqK5tJodqteFd77
Looks nothing like a small finnish town, but I would buy something like that in a heartbeat
And, yeah, the small finnish town...
https://maps.app.goo.gl/r5ucZzNeuYsiQQ7EA
Sounds like a son to be very proud of.
I will admit a Stonemason weakness ever since the PoserPros days ;). I too would buy everything of his in the store if I could...lol. I'm getting there already. His scifi sets are my biggest weakness and I have, oh, LOTS of them.
