Are there house/home products that look for middle low income people?
James
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Are there house/home products that look for middle low income people?
Cos most of the houses usually look very nice and exepnsive.
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https://www.daz3d.com/european-style-apartment
It is, as the name suggests, European Style, so the appliances and outlets and such look a bit wonky if you're an American, but it's a great base for kitbashing. Very "lived in" look and easy to customize or rearrange, with some time and effort. Tons of props. It doesn't look like your standard apartments over here, but it does look very reminiscent of old houses that frequently get sub-divided for multiple apartments.
Collective3d offers some useful products. (Some/most require you to provide furnishings.)
Also take a look at FG Desert Apartment Living and FG Standard Apartment.
Yeah my characters live in middle class worlds, and not much here for that.
But these are the houses/apartments that I use in my everyday renders from Renderhub:
Two Bedroom Apartment for DAZ Studio
DD Three Bedroom House For Daz Studio
1984 Arcadian Trail
Single Family Home
Unit 501
Good Luck
https://www.daz3d.com/northern-terrace-street
https://www.daz3d.com/fn-birmingham-street - these sort of houses have often been split into apartments
It really depends on the region as well. A tiny apartment in a big city can be as expensive as a medium sized detached house with a decent garden in a rural area. I also agree with Scorpio's mention of apartments. In my country, many old mansions have been converted into apartment buildings. Same with old schools, officebuildings, churches and even factories (provided they weren't too polluted). The space above stores in shoppingcenters also often contains apartments. The main problem is, that many assets in store are either interior or exterior, so we have to cobble together something believable ourselves.
And the "add-on" which DAZ has forgotten to link to:
https://www.daz3d.com/northern-terrace-street-rear-yards-and-alleyway
Look just like the first house I had in industrial Southern England too.
Regards,
Richard.
What an "ordinary" dwelling looks like varies widely across the world. But I'm pretty sure there's nowhere that a typical Daz house wouldn't stand out like a sore thumb.
This discussion might be helpful.
Where are the huddled masses?! ... Tondo district and other locales
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/650466/where-are-the-huddled-masses-tondo-district-and-other-locales#latest
Of the ones listed in this thread, this one is my favorite. They're all good options, really, but this one definitely feels lived in.
How low you wanna go? And yeah, geography can be a factor too. And you want inside or outside?
If you want dirt poor, Ansiko's motel room lets it be sloppy, with clutter that is chaotic and spilled, and even mold in the walls that doesn't hit "abandoned building" levels.
Predatron's got a couple good ones, including https://www.daz3d.com/backwater-shack-and-props which pairs great with https://www.daz3d.com/backwoods-shooting-range-for-genesis-3-and-8-male-s-and-female-s for your "buddies having a recreational weekend" outing or survivalist living.
And of course you can't go wrong with a mobile home.
Special shout out to Deepsea for this one.
And if you want smaller units as part of a poorer community, https://www.daz3d.com/shanty-bus-house and https://www.daz3d.com/wasteland-settlement
Oh gosh, I don't know how I missed that one, but I love it. I had that fridge in that exact color until about 7 years ago when the poor thing finally died past the point of repair. Quite sure it was original to my (extremely modest) townhome.
well, the Jungle huts are on special today
It all looks super geometric, like hard angles, in the promo pics. But you hit it with a good sunlit HDRI and crank it up with just the tiniest bit of volumetric mist in the room, and it just comes to life, brings you right back to visiting that one crazy aunt who smoked like a chimney and had twelve cats that shared only two litter boxes.
That whole combo of environments gives you just about everything you need for that low-class experience as far as props go.
I would love to see a pack of decals with ants, roaches, mice, and other critters to add to the grunge in places like that.
I don't have all my environments loaded yet, but besides the great ones mentioned above, there is one interior https://www.daz3d.com/wind-studio-flat that is a European small apartment, that looks really new, freshly painted, and might need some grunge shaders to make it look lived in. It is loaded with a number of cameras.
As for Collective3D or C3D, those homes which often are complete, are available across the U.S. and seen in many cities and being renovated like crazy. So they make a good choice.
I use this room and props often as vagely resembles what I grew up in but twice as big (the 3D one, my childhood loungeroom half that size)
https://www.daz3d.com/a-cozy-kitsch-living-room
https://www.daz3d.com/the-cosy-kitsch-living-room-props
otherwise
https://www.daz3d.com/home-one-bundle
is my most used set as pretty much mirrors my current house in decor
(some of the rooms not whole set, my tiny cottage not that big)
I don't own this but looks suitable
https://www.daz3d.com/room-creator-version-2
https://www.daz3d.com/room-creator-exteriors
I'm surprised I hadn't noticed that Cozt Kitsch one before, that screams "down-home." Good catch.
Our second house had been owned by a crazy cat lady. Her dad had built the house in 1898 and we were the second family of owners in 1992. She'd had 13 cats, one of whom was so feral he couldn't be caught & we took him over. The cats were so over fed that they didn't bother with the mice. As a result, the warming drawer in the oven was 2" deep in mouse droppings, and the back of the larder cum under stairs cupboard had a prism shaped heap of mouse droppings full width of the room where the understair boarding ended. Generations of mice had lived under the stairs and all their poop had all rolled down into the back of the larder. Other features included an outside toilet, electrics dating to 1937 insulated with natural rubber & silk (which were catastrophically dangerous) and a gas water heater where the lead gas pipe had been cut and capped without actually sealing the end or turning the gas off.
When we first looked at the house, the estate agent ('Realtor' in US English) rather unusually gave us the keys & told us to bring them back when finished. The reason became obvious when we opened the front door. The accumulates blast of 'Cat' that came out of the door sent us reeling back 5 yards and we had to air the house for 5 minutes before going in.
That makes me think. I wonder if a single very low poly cockroach model could be made & ultrascattered to good effect as a background infestation. Probably could.
Regards,
Richard
And you bought that house?????
Wow, you are quite energetic. It sounds like you added tremendous value to the home.
It has an AC and US type power outlets... and at least here in Germany you would find something that small maybe as a student's room in a dormitory... or totally overpriced in Berlin, Munich or Frankfurt...
When You go to Renderosity, check the stuff that Samant offers. Some nice middle-class flats/apartements in his shop. TruForm also has nice living quarters of different style and potential cost. And Santuziy78 offers several different rooms, too.
That is weird, the feel of small appliances and toilet was European. Maybe it is a blend of both or the PA couldn't keep what market they were aiming at straight as they worked? I honestly didn't look at the outlets, thanks for pointing those out. Those AC units are still relatively new in the US and I still think of them as being imported from overseas. I have not had experience with them, having lived only in homes/dorms/apartments with full HVAC or in the case of WWI and WWII wood barracks and a quonset hut which had no HVAC (in summer/winter DC and summer TX and the later England in the fall with an oil-fired heater).
Well, it was 32 years ago.. When we moved, the house was about 50% more than would have been expected if it's value had gone up in line with local house prices. Unfortunately, it was still less than 50% of our current house's cost, so the mortgage when we moved 20 years ago felt eye watering. Regards, Richard.