Attached Link: City Blocks in a Box

Am slowly getting ready to release these into the Marketplace, just trying to get my act together. This is a test for a product render I am working on... any suggestions on how to improve it. I'm trying to create something strange but familiar with this approach to presenting the product. Unfortunately, my limited skills allow that I release the LW only versions initially. Thanks for looking. Cheers! - M

You know I love these from the earlier version, lookin forward to more of these.

That's a fantastic product shot. This looks great. What is the earlier version and where can it be found? Also - will this be distributed in a file type that is easily converted for those of us who don't have LW? Thanks Frank

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=leather%2Dguy

Your "limited skills"? I don't see anything limited about your work! Honestly, though, if this will be a MP product, I'd really recommend including a Poser-importable version, if not a full Poser conversion. It would increase your appeal geometrically (a lot more Poser users than LW users shop there I believe). I used all the free poser conversions from FreeStuff about 6 months ago in my "Susie-Lou's Discovery" pic in my gallery, and I can attest your Dystopia blocks can look Magnificent in Poser (thank you for the kind comment you posted, btw :-)). Another possible suggestion; include "period blocks" that would have date-specific buildings. By this I mean, have a couble of blocks with just lower, older (1930's & earlier) type buildings for people working on historical, or midwestern-urban type pictures, separate blocks or versions with a few ultra-modern buildings for modern or techno pictures, and other blocks with stricktly hi-tech/futurific buildings for Sci-Fi/Alien worlds type pictures. (I can just envision a promo render with a street-level shot of little 3D or even wireframe people looking up, puzzled at the "Blocks in a Box" looming over the skyline. *LOL*) I think your work is incredible, and I hope you really clean up with it!

Will this be available in formats other than poser? If you had this in a 3ds native format, textured and ready to go, I'd pay good money...

The blocks look great, you've done amazing work here. how is the mesh size huge? detail? looks great small like that, but can you do a flyby and have it at least keep some if not most of the details. Are the buildings seperate objects? say I buy "block 1" and "block 2" can I mix n match and play around, or is it fixed? or is eveybody gunna be playing in the same Moe town? :)

These rock Moe! I have the free ones you did a while back and use them a lot. Put these on my wishlist. :) Suggestion - do some close-up renders in an inset box on the product promos, to show some of the details.

Thanks for your encouragement and support everyone. :o) I started building "Dystopia" a little over a year ago and then let it lie fallow for a while. There were originally 200 city blocks planned for this project, right now I only have completed about 50 unique blocks. The first 20 blocks are available in freestuff (converted with the help of LynnJonathan and hosted through the kindness of FishNose) in a Poser version, with the original LWO version also available for free here, thanks to Axeman3d. I only work in LightWave, but I do understand that the need is predominantly for Poser ready meshes. I am struggling to get these into an OBJ format with materials intact, but have so far been unsuccessful with the results. File sizes of the geometry alone tend to bloat to almost 400% from the original LWO, nevermind the textures even. :o( Dystopia was always meant to be a background prop, to save animators the tedium of building every single building in a futuristic city. Inspired by the style of Syd Mead (Blade Runner) and Fritz Lang (Metropolis), Dystopia is a sci-fi set. It's meant as a filler and not the focus, but having said that, it does stand up pretty well in full shots. Yes, it does work pretty well for fly-bys, you can see this in the animation work by petes. It also works very well for anime style works as seen in this trailer by Tephladon. Yes, you can take the individual buildings apart if you really wanted to, but that was never the plan. I've even seen some renders done where they've created a city in ruins using Dystopia as a base model. I've also seen them ported over to virtual 3D worlds for Adobe Atmosphere, so they do work pretty decent. :o) Thanks for all the input, I will keep trying to get it in flavors other than LWO. I will also post some shots that show the level of detailing - not much though. Cheers! - M

I use the free ones you did heavily; I would without doubt buy these, especially if they are poser ready.

Go go go M! :] Fish