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[Released] V3Digitimes Buildings and Skyscrapers Generator, vol 1

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  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    Alric said:

    I just picked this up, eager to give it a whirl. 

    It reminds me of a program called City Engine that I played with a while back until esri bought it and rolled it into their gis tools.

    I would like to see a fantasy version of this, for generating blocks of medieval looking buildings.

    That's an idea. But the medieval architecture is a bigger challenge.....

    nicstt said:

    Damn me; this is brilliant.

    Thanks a lot!

  • DigitalSteamDigitalSteam Posts: 299

    Brilliant ideas like this really make me wish I were a programmer, and new how to do studio scripts.  There's no question I'm buying this - that's a given - but I (too) am wondering how possible it will be to make add-ons for it, like Victorian, sci-fi, etc... And, if someone put together some good ones, does the script set-up easily allow for, and would you be open to, them releasing them as add-ons?  Would it be a thing where we'd have to get you to code them in as a collaborative add-on? Would you be interested at all, theoretically, if they were good enough?

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    DigitalSteam said:

    Brilliant ideas like this really make me wish I were a programmer, and new how to do studio scripts.  There's no question I'm buying this - that's a given - but I (too) am wondering how possible it will be to make add-ons for it, like Victorian, sci-fi, etc... And, if someone put together some good ones, does the script set-up easily allow for, and would you be open to, them releasing them as add-ons?  Would it be a thing where we'd have to get you to code them in as a collaborative add-on? Would you be interested at all, theoretically, if they were good enough?

    Well it is a complicated question, and I have to think carefully about it before I can give an answer. I will think about it, and I will contact you by MP when I am more clear in my head on the subject.

  • DoctorJellybeanDoctorJellybean Posts: 8,466
    V3Digitimes said:
    Have a nice day everybody! I'm always - except at night - available here if you have questions, remarks, or if you want to share what you did !

    Except at night? Slacker laugh

    I love this!

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    DoctorJellybean said:
    V3Digitimes said:
    Have a nice day everybody! I'm always - except at night - available here if you have questions, remarks, or if you want to share what you did !

    Except at night? Slacker laugh

    I love this!

    Well..... I know, what a shame!... OK, next product, I won't sleep for a few days after the release....

  • DoctorJellybeanDoctorJellybean Posts: 8,466

    LOL

    Stay safe, that's the most important.

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,471
    edited March 2020

    I just wonder, if anybody use it.

    Below is my try with Josephene 8 for scale comparison.

    What lights suits best the buildings created with this tool?

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,471
    edited March 2020

    ... another one.

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  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150

    Thanks for sharing! So you reached the pyramid style, nice!  :)

    For lighting I would use an HDRI or a sunlight. If a lot of the scene environment is reflected by the building, sunlight and blurry or neat HDRI are fine (well everything is fine). If the building is isolated and almost none of the props of the scene are reflected on the glass, then it is better to use a neat (not blurry) HDRI so that neat images are reflected on the windows. Personally I prefer your second images, warmer than the first one... But maybe just because it is warmer ...

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,471
    edited March 2020

    Thanks a lot.

    I have used Dimensions Theory HDRIs and just tested them randomly, but I also like the second image better.

     

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,471
    edited March 2020

    Another building...

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  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    Wow this one is really cool! I hope you're having fun!
  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,471

    Thanks and yes, it is a lot of fun to use this generator.

  • QuasarQuasar Posts: 638

    @Artini Cool images. How did you do the pyramid buildings? Did you manually scale them down after creating one building with multiple stories, or did you make many one story buildings and then stack them. I was going to ask V3Digitimes if there could be an option added in a future update to resize the floors before we make them so we could make buildings that taper like that but maybe there's a feature I'm missing?

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    edited March 2020
    Quasar said:

    @Artini Cool images. How did you do the pyramid buildings? Did you manually scale them down after creating one building with multiple stories, or did you make many one story buildings and then stack them. I was going to ask V3Digitimes if there could be an option added in a future update to resize the floors before we make them so we could make buildings that taper like that but maybe there's a feature I'm missing?

    From what I see and what I know about the product XD, he created several "ground floors" of various X and Z dimensions, by launching the interface, create a ground floor, close the interface, and do it again with other "ground floor" dimensions. Then he placed the elements one above another (for the pyramid style).

    edit:

    For the other building, the two towers with a junction, he probably loaded or created the two towers, then the center element, then he placed the three elements so that they are placed this way.

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,471

    Thanks a lot, Quasar.

    Yes, I have done exactly, what V3Digitimes has said.

    Previously, I have used ready made buildings, but now I have opportunity,

    to create many, many different designs.

    For me the builder is just a tool, to create whatever my imagination come up with.

    Great, that we have such talented vendors like V3Digitimes in Daz shop.

    In such terrible times, it brings some joy to the life nowadays.

     

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    Artini said:

    Thanks a lot, Quasar.

    Yes, I have done exactly, what V3Digitimes has said.

    Previously, I have used ready made buildings, but now I have opportunity,

    to create many, many different designs.

    For me the builder is just a tool, to create whatever my imagination come up with.

    Great, that we have such talented vendors like V3Digitimes in Daz shop.

    In such terrible times, it brings some joy to the life nowadays.

     

    Thanks a lot Artini!

  • QuasarQuasar Posts: 638

    That makes a lot of sense to create multiple ground floors and then stack them. They will all have entry doors that way. Thank you all for sharing your talents and ideas!

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150

    Yes, that's it. And in case you don't want to see the entry doors, simply Y rotate it by 180 degrees! :)

  • DripDrip Posts: 1,194
    edited March 2020

    Alternatively, I guess someone could make a bottom floor, then add an amount of top floors, and after that, hide or remove the bottom floor?

    More advanced users could even turn the instances into objects, export everything to Blender (or something similar) and combine/finetune everything there, then import it again into Daz Studio. Only drawback would be, that the building would be a lot heavier on resources (longer render times, more VRAMM required), since it uses a lot of identical objects instead of instances then. But, it's probably still a lot faster than building a multifloor building by hand.

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  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    edited March 2020
    Drip said:

    Alternatively, I guess someone could make a bottom floor, then add an amount of top floors, and after that, hide or remove the bottom floor?

    More advanced users could even turn the instances into objects, export everything to Blender (or something similar) and combine/finetune everything there, then import it again into Daz Studio. Only drawback would be, that the building would be a lot heavier on resources (longer render times, more VRAMM required), since it uses a lot of identical objects instead of instances then. But, it's probably still a lot faster than building a multifloor building by hand.

    If you don't want to see the entrance node, the most simple solution is probably the 180 rotation. If you want to completely get rid of the entrance node, you have to "replace" it by windows. Indeed the entrance node (building entry) has been designed so that it can be replaced by two windows, or two instances of one of the target windows of the building. Two windows occupy the exact same amount of space as the entrance node (building entry). If you want to load Windows, they can be loaded in the props folder, or if you prefer using instances, you can select one target window of the building, make "create instance" (2 instances), place the windows or their instances where the entrance node is, and then hide the entrance node.

    edit: another solution is to keep the entrance node, but set up a ground or the environment Y location so that the ground floor is below the scene ground.

    Well in brief there are at least 4/5 easy solutions to "hide" the building entry, people can pick up the one they prefer.

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  • acharyapolinaacharyapolina Posts: 726

    Its amazing. LOVE it. I will Buy it.

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    acharyapolina said:

    Its amazing. LOVE it. I will Buy it.

    Huge thanks for this feedback! Be creative and have fun with it!

  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,400
    edited March 2020

    Thanks V3Digitimes for making this!  If you make add-ons I will buy those too!  I like all the things I have seen suggested here, but am most interested in cool Sci-Fi buildings.  Rooftop gardens would be an insta-buy as well.  Man, you could make a whole career out of different add-ons!  Sci-Fi, Medieval, Fantasy Good/Evil, Elven, Steam Punk, Russian (onion dome), Greek, Arabic etc.  Sheesh, pick ANY distinctive style and CHA-CHING!

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  • QuasarQuasar Posts: 638

    I made an image with UltraScenery and a few of the prebuilt buildings as a backdrop. It's nice to have those buildings included as well for quick access. Thanks.

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  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    Gogger said:

    Thanks V3Digitimes for making this!  If you make add-ons I will buy those too!  I like all the things I have seen suggested here, but am most interested in cool Sci-Fi buildings.  Rooftop gardens would be an insta-buy as well.  Man, you could make a whole career out of different add-ons!  Sci-Fi, Medieval, Fantasy Good/Evil, Elven, Steam Punk, Russian (onion dome), Greek, Arabic etc.  Sheesh, pick ANY distinctive style and CHA-CHING!

    Thanks! Addons were initially planned, and still are. Now I don't want to hurry, because I want to take my time to develop something coherent and with a good quality, and to clearly define what can be created as addons, and what will require additional scripts. It is wise on your side to wait for the addons if you don't need the base so far...

    Quasar said:

    I made an image with UltraScenery and a few of the prebuilt buildings as a backdrop. It's nice to have those buildings included as well for quick access. Thanks.

    Thanks for sharing! Nice image.... Pre-made buildings were initially here so that people could customize them without creating them, and already customized ones were here "as examples". But indeed, I see thanks to your image that you filled the background without any customization, nice to see this :)

  • Aldor64Aldor64 Posts: 37
    Gogger said:

    Thanks V3Digitimes for making this!  If you make add-ons I will buy those too!  I like all the things I have seen suggested here, but am most interested in cool Sci-Fi buildings.  Rooftop gardens would be an insta-buy as well.  Man, you could make a whole career out of different add-ons!  Sci-Fi, Medieval, Fantasy Good/Evil, Elven, Steam Punk, Russian (onion dome), Greek, Arabic etc.  Sheesh, pick ANY distinctive style and CHA-CHING!

    I totally agree. Fantastic product. I really wish that one of the planned add-ons / shaders will be capable of (credit of Andy Walsh, http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/apocalyptic-city/apocalyptic3.php ):

     

  • V3DigitimesV3Digitimes Posts: 3,150
    Funny, today I worked on an add-on development and on ivys for this add-on, trying to find the right settings for the ivy generation (not in ds but in the modeling software). You give me à new idea here, which would be more like falling ivy. I will have a look at that too.
  • Aldor64Aldor64 Posts: 37
    V3Digitimes said:
    Funny, today I worked on an add-on development and on ivys for this add-on, trying to find the right settings for the ivy generation (not in ds but in the modeling software). You give me à new idea here, which would be more like falling ivy. I will have a look at that too.

    Great! Would be happy if my ideas could be helpful for you wink

    PS I think such add-on should be pretty popular especially now since more people (including myself) work on apocaliptic / post-apocalyptic projects. 

  • KA1KA1 Posts: 1,012
    This is on my wishlist to buy regardless, with a post apocalyptic add on it would be insta buy!!!
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