Did you notice there are lots of class rooms and school corridors but...
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[Did you notice there are lots of class rooms and school corridors but] there is no Iray Highschool Exterior?
I wanted to do some school-themed renders and could only find one single product of a Highschool exterior:
https://www.daz3d.com/school-s-out-19787
This one lacks Iray materials and I think it's a bit on the smaller side for a high school. There are many many corridors and
class rooms. I wonder what are your recommendations for buildings that could substitute for a Highschool?
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There's a highschool for Poser at Renderosity, which looks slightly bigger.
Apart from that, it probably depends on how You would want your highschool to look, right? There's probably some office buildings that could be redone as school buildings.
Maybe you could have the establishment shot be the campus bus stop?
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/338741/daz-s-fascination-with-bus-stops/p1
and
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/391701/the-bus-for-all-the-bus-stops-its-finally-there
There are a lot of hospital rooms in the store as well, but just one external of a hospital, same with police stations, and Ist Bastion did both of those. However neither of those look much like schools.
Externals of public buildings are pretty rare. Maybe your best chance is to look through some of the various urban sets for suitable buildings, eg: Urban Sprawl 2 and 3.
https://www.daz3d.com/urban-sprawl-3 is Iray, and there is a Modern Art Museum building, that with a bit of kitbashing (ie change the signage) could be used as a school exterior, depending on the look you are after.
this could pass as a dingy school too
https://www.daz3d.com/county-crime-lab
There was a thread about this a while back with some viable alternatives. What bugs me about the high school corridors is than none of the lockers open. Some of the locker rooms have ones that open, but they're kind of different.
Corridors wasn't built with a school in mind, although a lot of the pieces will work pretty well. And yes, the lockers do open.
PS An update including a full Iray version should be ready er.... soon. As in, whenever I can find the time to finish it.
Funnily enough I've been working on creating a visual novel style school exterior! https://www.daz3d.com/v3digitimes-buildings-and-skyscrapers-generator-vol-1 is your friend :)
This is why I still do a lot of business with Renderosity. DreamlandModels City Blocks/Movie Sets line alone has a ton of useful buildings that work extremely well for schools, and hospitals, as well some ready-to-go Fire and Police departments, as do a number of 2nd World's sets (which include a college campus), and some sets by WhiteMagus and Tru-Form, all of which either are already Iray ready or convert easily with the basic convsion shader. Greenpots has an elaborite multi-set school series as well which has a lot of unique details, though it's a little more work required to make it look great in Iray,
The ones in this hallway open: https://www.daz3d.com/school-hallway
American high schools run a wide variety of architectural styles, from Hogwarts to Brutalist prison chic.
With all the flirty school uniforms and plaid skirts, I'd guess the private school setting would sell more than the Brutalist public schools.
schools in Australia vary a hell of a lot, some are exactly like the American depictions, some are prefab buildings and some are very nice carpetted open space learning set ups, I honestly cannot say there is a specific type almost any building would work.
The closed monstrosity near me is exactly like the typical American High for example with roller shutters on the windows, it's 2 stories and surrounded by barbed wire FFS (well the oval is) see its spikey fence in street view, like a prison but that's because its closed and often arsonists attack it.
This is what my school looked like... just throw up a chain link fence and a basketball hoop or two and BOOM insta high-school!
Schools in the US vary quite a bit too, but there are a couple of basic designs that are fairly common as they were all built in the twenty year window between the 50s and the end of the 60s. There's a couple of schools near me that are built in failed shopping malls, oddly enough, and another that's a City Of Houston School but with a focus on Chinese language and culture that's extremely modern in appearance as it was only built a few years ago... and then there are some high-priced private schools that look more like mansions or upscale hotels. Really, almost any big building will work if you put a sports field and some baskeball nets next to it.
@maclean When you do, could you add "Restroom Sign" to the list? I own Corridors, but after searching the store for Restroom Sign in vain, I bought one elsewhere for $3. Thanks for updating all of your great sets for us.
I should take up modelling to re-create my high school - four buildings, a cafeteria, and an annex. The original Central High was on the North-West corner of the block, 3 stories, built in 1913. The "New" high school occupied the rest of the north side of the block and was finished around 1935 (two stories). In 1949 or 1950 the Industrial Annex was built, Extending South from between (and connecting) the two other buildings - two stories, connecting to the first and third story of the old building. Around 1955 or 1956 the school corporation purchased a church that was on the East side of the block and tied it to the "new" building with a cafeteria. And about 1960 the city built a new library and the school corporation purchased the old Carnegie library - located diagonally North-East of the block the rest of the school was on.
The first day of each school year the incoming sophomores got a page on how to find their classrooms.
If it is a two-digit room number it is in the old Central building and the first digit is the floor.
If it is a three digit number and the second digit is a 3 it is in the Industrial Annex and the first digit is the floor.
If it is a three digit number and the second digit is a 4 it is in the old church; the first digit is the floor.
If it is a three digit number and the last digit is a 5 it is in the old Carnegie library; the first digit is the floor.
All other three digit numbers are in the "New" high school; the first digit is the floor.
Room 224 can only be reached by passing through room 222.
I was in the last graduating class from this complex in 1966. The replacement was a bog-standard modern two-story built a mile away, and the old complex got demolished in 1968.
too true like here in Tasmania. Some of the uniforms here work here well minus ties and only grade 10 prefects had jackets and the girls wore those Japanese school shorts and the dresses were at times very short. Oh funny kinda side note in our Kmart and some other stores they changed the uniform to that that looked like the blue white chequred school dresses kinda made it awked when you wanted to ask someone something and wasn't sure if they worked there or was a student
I went to a private school myself in 100 year old buildings with balconies you couldn't use as unsafe so were boarded off, slate roofs etc but we also had temporary classrooms and a hideous 60's science block
my public primary school was also an over a 100yo stone building
schools are certainly a hodgepodge of architecture in Adelaide.
My mother was a primary school teacher and she taught at old lovely old stone schools and modern aircondtioned open space carpeted varieties and everything inbetween.
we had ties on our girls winter uniforms, had to wear a blazer if you wore a jumper, socks had to be white knee high or beige stockings, skirt no more than 7"" above the knee. They made us kneel and checked it if looked too short.
Boys had to wear knee high white socks too if wearing shorts.
girls couldn't wear trousers back then and shorts and tracksuits could only be worn for sports not travel to or from school.
Had to be specific brand, Addidas brown with yellow.
it was before wearing "brands" was cool though too and I hated tracksuits
I went to private school.
It was amusing, the main building was the large mansion.
Then there were the prison prefabs they kept us in. At least the dormotories were in the mansion.
... Why am I telling you folks this?
Because mixing up the styles is not only realistic, but 100% real.
bloody hell, something else I've never used.
I imagine in Europe schools would vary even more in architecture
the colonies are only "young"
There is this type like my mom & dad went to but they finished school before 1950 in a remote American area. Also the siding was wood clapboard siding, not cut stone (that school looks like that's limestone). I never thought to ask either of them if their schools were painted red and white like those nursery rhyme illustrations of schools are always painted. It did have the typical school bell though. I only saw them when I was taken to the area 50 years later and all the paint was weathered away.
A Curious Schoolhouse
Also, the nearly identical
A Dubious Schoolhouse
Sure, I can do that. In fact, when I do an udate, I always like to add a few new props anyway. I'm about to open 3d Max for something else, and I'll start a restroom sign just so I don't forget it later. Funny... I thought there was one, but it was probably another pack.
If there are any other suggestions, throw 'em out there! I'll do my best.
maclean, your photo above has the standard restroom sign (silhouette of a man, woman & handicapped individual), perhaps xyer0 means he wants a sign that actual says "Restrooms"?
that shouldn't be too hard to do with a plane and texture drawn with an image editor
That was my school, the photo was taken in 2006. Looks a bit different, I think.
The building I went to school at got wiped out by a tornado - which makes me a bit sad because I always thought I would go back there someday and walk the halls and walk down memory lane. But it's gone now, all of it. Completely destroyed by the tornado. I hadn't seen the school since the night of our graduation party that was held there. And now I'll never see it again.
On the plus side, the building they built to replace it is nothing short of spectacular! The original building that I went to high school at was a smallish old building built in the late 50's - but after it's destruction, the new school that was built to replace it is extremely modern and cool looking, imo:
It's a nearly 500,000 square foot facility with an on-sight student-run coffee shop, 66-person-seating restaurant, TV station, greenhouse, a huge theatre, gymnasium, massive auditorium, art gallery, etc. It's amazing! I'm jealous of the kids that get to go there - it's a FAR cry from the built-in-the-late-50's small school building that I attended. The old school was just that. Old. Pretty small and crowded. The AC didn't work properly in most of the rooms so it was hot as heck half the time. The difference between the school I went to and the new school they built is night and day! Those high school kids are now getting like a college experience... for free... during high school. lol Jealous? Yeah... I am. lol
In Braunschweig (which englishers call Brunswick) where I was born and lived some 35+ years, there's schools in buildings from the 1850's or so with others right up to the 1970's and lots of inbetween.
One of older ones exists since 1415 and changed places a couple times over the centuries, with the newest being built in 1863, bombed in 1944 and rebuilt between 1952 to 1955 (link to the german wiki for it), with a wing added in 1980...
So yeah, I bet mainland european schools have lots of different looks - even between schools in the same town
Yes, I realised there was already a sign with figures, but no text. I've added a new 'Restrooms' text, plus a few others (First Aid / Exam Room) and I'll do a few more so they can be interchanged for more flexibilty.
Oh, I lived in Brunswick, Georgia as a boy for a while. Like you said, I always assumed it was an English name, especially being an old Georgia town. Interesting thing about the 6th grade school I went to it way back in 1976 was that the students read short 4 page lessons on two sheets of paper printed in some other state and then filled out a computer form to test ready they understood the lesson so they could go to the next lesson. And...That...Went...On...For...The...Whole...Year... I hated it, the teachers rarely spoke and students did not talk as much either as with a normal class. The school though was the typical modern style, if I remember right, for the US in 1976 as it was like that 'School's Out' product from The Ant Farm in the DAZ Store.