Curvy Roads?

echristopherclark

If you were me and you were looking to recreate the look of the super-curvy section of Lombard Street (see attached) in Daz, what products, tools, and/or techniques would you use?

Gordig

I'd go into a modeler (Hexagon, Blender etc.), create an S-curve and a flat rectangle, and then sweep them together.

echristopherclark

Thanks, Gordig. I'll give that a try. 

FirstBastion

That is an impressive bit of urban landscape design. I ike how they organized the driveway parking pads for the various homes down the hill.

crosswind

I've been there for two times. As a Blender user, if I made it, I would use City Road Builder add-on rather than starting from scratch.

richardandtracy

My approach would be to model one sine curve while flat. Then shear the model vertically over that length to a known height at the high end. Then duplicate and finally populated with plants.

JOdel

You might want to check Powerage/Christof3D's store over on Rendo. I think he has a set with a curvy road. Probably not as urban, though.

echristopherclark

Thanks for the tips, everyone! Happy to hear any others too, if anyone reads this and still wants to share. This is all really helpful.

FirstBastion

I'm almost tempted to give it a try. 

echristopherclark

I've been trying to find the best way of doing it so that I can use San Francisco as a model for the Emerald City (from the Wizard of Oz) in the comic I'm working on. Once I realized that Lombard Street runs all the way from the curvy section up to Telegraph Hill (see the attached image and the monument off in the distance), I was obsessed.

memcneil70

When I was 17 or so, I walked down that hill and up to Telegraph Hill. A few years later I drove it in a manual transmission car, whose emergency brake was a button on the left side of the driver's space, so you had to remove your foot off the brake to punch down hard (and not miss!). SF is a scary town to drive like that. But walking up or down Lombard is tough and best for those who are in shape. But what a view. I miss SF.

jjoyner

It’s not Lombard Street, but Dangerous Hairpin Turn is a Poser product that I bought many years ago at Renderosity: https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/109381/dangerous-hairpin-turn.  It has lots of hairpin turns and is still available.  It loads nicely into Daz Studio (4.21)

Elor

I didn't know it was based on a real street but Lego City Undercover has one street like that in the neighboorhood near the police station.

echristopherclark

@memcneil70 — thanks for that anecdote. i did a long walk during my one visit to San Francisco in 2006, but it wasn't along Lombard.

@jjoyner — that looks super cool! i may be able to use that.

@elor —that's wicked cool! i haven't ever played Lego City Undercover, but now i kinda want to check it out.

JOdel

jjoyner said:

It’s not Lombard Street, but Dangerous Hairpin Turn is a Poser product that I bought many years ago at Renderosity: https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/109381/dangerous-hairpin-turn.  It has lots of hairpin turns and is still available.  It loads nicely into Daz Studio (4.21)

Ah, I think that might be the one I was thinking of. Got the vendor wrong. 

jjoyner

JOdel said:

jjoyner said:

It’s not Lombard Street, but Dangerous Hairpin Turn is a Poser product that I bought many years ago at Renderosity: https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/109381/dangerous-hairpin-turn.  It has lots of hairpin turns and is still available.  It loads nicely into Daz Studio (4.21)

Ah, I think that might be the one I was thinking of. Got the vendor wrong. 

Yeah, trying to remember product names, vendor names, etc. is a challenge.  Did I buy Product X at DAZ3D?  Renderosity?  RuntimeDNA?  SmithMicro?  Content Paradise?  And if a product was a freebie outside of the DAZ3D store or no longer available ...   I added lots of tags in Daz Studio last year to try to make searching for a product, vendor or store site a bit easier.  As I come across products - particularly older ones, that I might have missed (and probably did), I add or expand upon them as needed.