Question regarding Snowy London Street
lou_harper
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https://www.daz3d.com/snowy-london-street
Is it possible to un-snow it? I'm guessing not, but figured I ask.
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Still in the process of downloading it but if no-one gets back to you in the meantime I will have a look.
I have downloaded it and loaded in Daz.
It looks like you cannot simply remove the snow. But the snow look like it is texture only. Looking in smooth shaded, I couldn't see any snow. So removal of the snow will require some texture editing.
I had hoped that the snow was an overlay.
I suspected so. I'm buying the whole bundle anyway.
Yeah, I concur with felis, the snow is baked into the textures and so would take a bit of work to make it into a non-winter environment. However, maybe if this is not something that you can do perhaps the PA will do as an addon texture in the future?
Yes, a texture add-on for a non-snowy look would be handy.
I have looked a bit further, each building is only one surface, so you can't use shaders.
And the hardest part to edit will be the normal maps.
Bit impractical, with the snow. I'm also not really seeing London here, tbh. For instance, missing sidewalks / pavements. Or is this supposed to be all pedestrian zone only? Then, why call it 'street'? And why are all the tables and chairs outside when it's clearly too cold to be sitting there, and none of these patio heaters in sight? Are we just gonna plonk folks down right in the snow on those seats? Kind of unrealistic and not as well thought out as usually, methinks ...
Well, it's been a while since I have been out in the city and certainly this week when the snow has been out in full force I have been too ill to go into the office. However, in the UK we are normally un-prepared for extreme weather and so while it is a good point about the lack of outdoor heaters it's also not unlikely that a small cafe/restaurant may just not have any for the two/three outdoor tables that they have. A quick google also does show atleast a few images of real London establishments with chairs and tables out in the snow and no outside heaters in sight - no-one mad enough to be sitting at them of course ;)
I think for the floor that was perhaps done out of simplicity/convenience and I do agree that even for a pedestrian side-street there would likely have been a less "neat" stone floor.
I still really like it and I think it's OK that perhaps some artistic licence may have been taken in a few areas. Especially since, in certain other instances where not-enough artistic licence was employed, the asset may have needed to have been hobbled by the editorial licence if it was too acurate to real life.
Meanwhile in Finland...
Edited to remove the "Nude dudes drinkin beer at the outdoor Ice Cafe in the snow" image. Sorry guys but rules iz rules
Well, with some days having all four seasons of the year with some rain added in being un-prepared is to be expected, methinks.
You beat me to it. :D
"Oy, it's snowing out there. Go bring the [censored] chairs in."
"[censored] you, you [censored]. I can't make it two steps on that slippery [censored] before falling flat on me [censored]. If someone'd daft enough to walk in this [censored], they earned a [censored] rest now, innit?"
Ehhh, it's a lovely set and "Snowy," is literally in the title. I do however agree that a "Snow free" version makes all the sense in the world. One has to imagine at at some point the snow was added to the texture maps so it stands to reason that first there was a a clean set of textures. At least in my workflow that's how it'd go.
Non-existing sidewalks aren't that uncommon in historical districts. Although if that was the case then the pavement is wrong because that's a very modern looking one. It should be either cobblestone or bricks. Wouldn't be this uniformly flat either,