Are there any Free or Cheap Scenes/Worlds ? (most of them seem 30$ + )

nokoteb99

I got walled City and Urban city and Ruins but i had to spend a lot of money for that. but still there's not much either in DAZ or in other poser /daz download sites. I'm talking, full cities(or close to it), full city blocks, full school, full Park( A Park would be a great one),
full beach. And more. Are there any of these?

stoopidtoons

take a look at poserworld.com

a subscription cost about 5 bucks right now

WendyLuvsCatz

A park is a plane with a grass shader and trees
a city lots of buildings with streets
the cheapest way to get these things in kitbash them yourself.
Xfrog has lots of freebie trees, you need to make transmaps for the leaves in say GIMP or Photoshop etc but free is free.
A noise map tiled in displacement makes grass.
Dystopia has some free city blooks, 6 I think

3dcheapskate

Dystopia City Blocks 001-010 and Dystopia City Blocks 011-020 are free here at DAZ if you're after something a bit futuristic.

There's a few things over at ShareCG that might be worth a look (I haven't used any of these myself) -:
- Arjin's Cardiff Pt2
- aemi1970 has a few contemporary city blocks that look quite good, but due to the 'adult' nature of a lot of their other freebies I won't give a direct link (just type "building" in the search box, ignore any "3D and 2D Art" results and you'll fing the "building-set5" etc.)

3dcheapskate

Further to WendyCatz comment that "the cheapest way to get these things in kitbash them yourself." - if you set up a full 360 degree scene in DAZ Studio/Poser using any old skydome and whatever urban environment props you have, then you can do six cubemap renders, and using a little bit of effort and a few free tools to stitch them together and convert them to a lat long and light probe format. You can then plug this into any skydome/environment dome and IBL light source. So if you want to do a lot of renders in the same urban environment it may be an idea to create yourself a generic urban environment scene in Daz Studio/poser and turn that into a simple environment map/light probe first.

I recently had my first success doing this from Poser (haven't tried in DS yet - getting the exact focal length setting for a precise 90 degree FOV is the key). I used a scene with a few dozen Dystopia city blocks - reduced size result posted at Renderosity here http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2887100&#msg4184960;

chorse

In addition to creating your own, you can find plenty of free environments and props to put together a wide variety of scenes at the following free areas of the following sites:

www.sharecg.com
www.renderosity.com
www.runtimedna.com

And many other DS/Poser fan and hobbyist sites.

nokoteb99

Thanks everybody. yeah i spent a lot of time grabbing freebie 3DS, OBJ, and PZ2 obj and bought some ENvironments . So now i'm good.
THe thing is when i have 1 environment like i bought Urban Sprawl 2( which i got long time ago and it's awesome)
i don't know how to make it look different for difeerent stories. It looks like the same city for every story i make. I wonder if there is a way to make them look different.

Anyways, i'm fine now. thanks

WendyLuvsCatz

Urban Sprawl 2 can be seperated into buildings and each retextured and rearranged on the streets if you are really keen

3dcheapskate

Looking at the Urban Sprawl 2 product page there's only 2 or 3 light sets and it doesn't seem to include any alternate material settings. So changing the lighting, atmosphere (fog, rain, etc), viewpoint, and materials/textures is an obvious way to get a bit of variety - you'll have to do a bit of DIY there though. And there may be alternate texture add-ons available, although a quick search of the store didn't find any - I'm sure somebody'll do some...

Also try combining bits of the main sets you've got, and throw in some other buildings, vehicles, and vegetation. Don't necessarily try and make everything match - city planners never seem to bother about that ! ;o)

Edit: almost forget, try a Google Image search for "urban sprawl 2 site:daz3d.com" - that should give you a few ideas.

WendyLuvsCatz

Stonemason is utterly marvelous in that he uses texture tiles rather than textures cut out to fit one mesh only!!!
His sets are among the easiest to retuxture with alternate seamless textures I own.
I also reuse his textures on other sets and models a lot.

WendyLuvsCatz

Also try pimp your prop.
I do not have it as I do not work in DAZ studio with DAZ shaders but for those using 3Delight it seems an easy to use out the box solution.

Steven-V

This question seems well answered but I will jump in with one other consideration when it comes to expensive environments/props. One of my solutions is the Wish List -- put it on the wish list and then wait. Check back every so often. Sooner or later it'll go on sale. I got Urban Sprawl 2 for like 40% off, for instance.

Plat Club also makes this more likely to happen (there are lots of PC-only discounts), but whether or not that is worth buying the sub for depends on how much product you buy. My membership has paid for itself like 10x over in the last 8 months, but I'm a 3D resource whore.