Apart from this being free...can you guess what it is yet :)

A service station or perhaps a fire station??

Answer: it is going to look good.

there looks to be a couple of loading docks, so I'd guess a warehouse, but it doesn't seem big enough for that. Perhaps a post office or a shipping station. (like a place for dropping of UPS or FedEx packages)

It's a Dalek factory. Obviously.

It's DR. Evils layer.

Four Seasons Landscaping

Alan Alda

bwldrd posted at 3:30PM Wed, 11 November 2020 - #4404249

Alan Alda

now there's an answer from the past.

It's A temple for a naked Vicky with a sword.

or maybe these days a naked La Femme with a wrench.

RedPhantom posted at 6:17PM Wed, 11 November 2020 - #4404252

It's A temple for a naked Vicky with a sword.

Now there's a response I haven't seen in many a year.

VedaDalsette - we've got a winner! ...and another WIP

Now there's a response I haven't seen in many a year. Now I just feel old :) ..come to mention it I've been doing this 3d stuff since '99!

That is really coming along. Nice.

I bet it's full of mail sacks. :D

Sam play nicely :)

Sorry no update yesterday, very loooooooooong shift :( But here's one for you all, yea the wiring isn't accurate, I'd like to call it more representational, much like how I wire up cookers :)

Hahahaha. It really is Four Seasons Landscaping. And here I was going to guess "Santa's Workshop."

Is the "adult book shop" next door included? ?

mrsparky posted at 4:24AM Sat, 14 November 2020 - #4404516

Sam play nicely :)

Sorry no update yesterday, very loooooooooong shift :( But here's one for you all, yea the wiring isn't accurate, I'd like to call it more representational, much like how I wire up cookers :)

Ok, if not mail sacks, crates of fake tan. :D

randym77 - dunno yet.

I try to spend as much time as possible avoiding the currently reality (especially shop greeters wearing yellow jackets trained at the Pol Pot Charm School) by hiding in my garage. Hence I didn't know much of what transpired at the press conference, only that people had said it was...well... different.

Thus a trip to various news website, for roundness includes... one with long words like the Guardian. The BBC because they do pictures you can colour in. And lastly, because my brain deserves self-flagellation, the Daily Mail.

For those less blessed ..or possibly cursed...than us Brits, the Mail isn't as high brow as Garfield or Snoopy. Instead it's aimed mostly at those belive the ideal world would be one that resembles a Hornby train set (with steam of course). We are still at war with the Germans and we beat them at soccer.

Dr Who isn't female and the biggest jolly bad show of all... One of the royals didn't marry an American, even though 90% of Daily Mail readers have the Megan swimsuit special on the back of the toilet door. For when they need a quick blast of Ivor Bigunn's biggest selling album.

So when that paper wrote, in all seriousness....

"Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is situated next to Delaware Valley Cremation Center and Fantasy Island Adult Books, where owners host 'D**do Madness' sales throughout the year."

....you just know it's gonna be a good one :) Moreso when I saw the pictures and even the building looks so different.

So I just had to make this one, thinking as a 3 piecer, because that won't take months to do. But I didn't realise until using streetview, the visuals and geography isn't so clear cut as the papers say. What you see is the back of the building, the cremation place is opposite the front, and the bookshop isn't quite next door.
Hence the dunno if I will yet or not.

Sam - my fellow Brit - enjoy the above :)

Oh and I hope everyone enjoys the WIP of building 3..

mrsparky posted at 9:41AM Mon, 16 November 2020 - #4404777

randym77 - dunno yet.

I try to spend as much time as possible avoiding the currently reality (especially shop greeters wearing yellow jackets trained at the Pol Pot Charm School) by hiding in my garage. Hence I didn't know much of what transpired at the press conference, only that people had said it was...well... different.

Thus a trip to various news website, for roundness includes... one with long words like the Guardian. The BBC because they do pictures you can colour in. And lastly, because my brain deserves self-flagellation, the Daily Mail.

For those less blessed ..or possibly cursed...than us Brits, the Mail isn't as high brow as Garfield or Snoopy. Instead it's aimed mostly at those belive the ideal world would be one that resembles a Hornby train set (with steam of course). We are still at war with the Germans and we beat them at soccer.

Dr Who isn't female and the biggest jolly bad show of all... One of the royals didn't marry an American, even though 90% of Daily Mail readers have the Megan swimsuit special on the back of the toilet door. For when they need a quick blast of Ivor Bigunn's biggest selling album.

So when that paper wrote, in all seriousness....

"Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is situated next to Delaware Valley Cremation Center and Fantasy Island Adult Books, where owners host 'D**do Madness' sales throughout the year."

....you just know it's gonna be a good one :) Moreso when I saw the pictures and even the building looks so different.

So I just had to make this one, thinking as a 3 piecer, because that won't take months to do. But I didn't realise until using streetview, the visuals and geography isn't so clear cut as the papers say. What you see is the back of the building, the cremation place is opposite the front, and the bookshop isn't quite next door.
Hence the dunno if I will yet or not.

Sam - my fellow Brit - enjoy the above :)

Oh and I hope everyone enjoys the WIP of building 3..

On the money about Daily Fail readers, or as they are also known, "Gammons". So called because their angry blotchy red shouty faces look like a slab of gammon.

Looks good!

Though I have to tell you...The Daily Mail is probably the most popular British "paper" in the U.S. Which perhaps shouldn't be a surprise. TBH, I find it better than a lot of American papers. Very tabloid-y, of course, but they actually put work in their stories. Which are often about terrible murders and sex scandals and the like, but they'll go much more in depth than US papers.

randym77 posted at 2:10PM Mon, 16 November 2020 - #4404811

Looks good!

Though I have to tell you...The Daily Mail is probably the most popular British "paper" in the U.S. Which perhaps shouldn't be a surprise. TBH, I find it better than a lot of American papers. Very tabloid-y, of course, but they actually put work in their stories. Which are often about terrible murders and sex scandals and the like, but they'll go much more in depth than US papers.

Fucking Ada, US papers must be really bad if the Fail is considered better quality. It's a real bottom of the barrel, sleazy, prurient rag that obsesses over adolescent girls (they were perving over Charlotte Church when she was 14, just because her tits had grown), or working class girls showing a bit of skin when they're out on the town. They will live in infamy forever for supporting Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, and thought Hitler was rather nice, praising him and the Nazis in at least one editorial.

So, no, it's fair to say, I do not like the Daily Fail in the least little bit.

However, I am very sorry for hijacking the thread and have to say Mrs Parky's model is extremely lovely.

It look very nice so far. You should turn the building into the The Daily Mail building , SamTherapy would luv it :p (going to search what all this daily mail stuff is about)

Sam - never apologise for your thoughts about the Daily Fail, it's an insidious rag.

Talking of media, that's why there's been no updates for a few days.
Bizarrely got asked to do a TV interview, about how sh*t being a carer has been during lockdown.

Actually, it was cr*p before that, covid just gave the PTB's an excuse to get out of doing stuff. But it's not often voiceless scumbags like me get a chance to annoy the government. Or more accurately, my lot quite liked the idea of watching someone who hates being photographed being on the tellybox, so I got "persuaded":)

Then after rapidly organising things, ITV changed their mind and choose someone else. A report that I hear will go out on Monday and should be worth a watch.

and todays update...

Looking good, mate.

Now, I wouldn't dream of apologizing for putting the boot into the Daily Fail or its fan base; my apology was for hijacking your thread.

BTW, I know it's not Mrs Parky, too. You once explained it was Mr Sparky, the name of your late cat. Anyone who is fond of cats is OK in my book.

Bit of an unfortunate Rolf Harris reference in yer title, though.

Thanks Sam and don't worry, I know what you meant there.

As for the Rolf reference, that was totally unintentional, never even thought about it. Obviously apologies if I've inadvertently offended anyone.

Hopefully this post will be more positive ...yes it looks beyond basic, but it's the start of the fence. Yes could've run with transmaps, and yes while they can look good, I find they can take longer to render. So I'm trying to building the fence as a mesh, while keeping the poly count low, but without resorting to decimation. Which is proving tricky.

Blimey. I thought of modelling a fence mesh once but abandoned it when the poly count started to climb. I'll be watching with interest.

Somehow sorta managed it, not perfect, but it gives the impression. That's not UV mapped either so I expect the filesize/polycount to jump a bit.

oh forget to add the background in image 1 isn't a poser scene, just a photo of the back of where we live.

Looks really good!

Tonight's update...starting on the ground. This is being done using Carrara 5's backdrop 'mode' and it's Shading Domain Management 'mode'.

The former is something that's only taken me several years to work out how to do :) But now I've sussed it out, found if you take a satellite image from Google maps and use that as the background it's possible to work accurat(ish) placements for things. It's also how the fronts of the buildings where done.

The latter is also a nice concept. It allows you to select small areas of a larger mesh and assign what I know as a material zone to that. That's good here, because one of my bugbears with poser models is how to texture large areas (such as ground).

Yes, app specific shaders will always do a better job than an image. Yes one large areas can use a single map. However sometimes maps may be the only way to get a look, say for instance where a road merges into a dirt track.

And that's a problem because even a 2048x2048 map may get the jaggies.
But now using this approach I can break large areas into smaller separately mapped sections. OK it won't totally solve this issue, but in theory it should reduce it.

After that it'll be the final bit of modelling, the power poles.

three more camera angle tests...

Holy cow, that looks amazing.

Bloody marvellous!

The model looks great,Sparky, but for us Yanks who don't know, wtf is so great about Four seasons Landcaping that it gets it own model?

EClark1894 posted at 6:52AM Mon, 23 November 2020 - #4405575

The model looks great,Sparky, but for us Yanks who don't know, wtf is so great about Four seasons Landcaping that it gets it own model?

It's a reference to U.S. politics! You might have missed it. I think you said you were sick or something?

Donald Trump sent Rudy Giuliani to do a press conference disputing the Pennsylvania election results. His staff chose the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot, apparently by using Google Earth to look for an area near Philadelphia that was out of the way and had a fence. (They had problems with protesters disrupting previous press conferences.)

Trump tweeted that the press conference was going to be at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. The Four Seasons hotel in Philadelphia tweeted back, saying the event was not scheduled there. Forcing Trump to correct his tweet. The media seemed baffled. It's a weird place to have a press conference. The British press especially had a field day, with the Mirror pointing out there was a dildo shop next door.

It's become something of a meme.

EClark1894 posted at 7:04AM Mon, 23 November 2020 - #4405575

The model looks great,Sparky, but for us Yanks who don't know, wtf is so great about Four seasons Landcaping that it gets it own model?

Mr Guiliani booked a presser there, and it's believed he booked it by mistake, thinking he was booking the Four Seasons Hotel instead. Situated between a Funeral Parlor and a Sex shop, no less.

Simple, this year has been beyond cruddy, not only the bug stuff, but personally as well. Theres been nothing much to laugh at and then this happened.

Politics aside, this isn't just the gods of irony raining on someone, this is the gods opening their trouser flies with a knowing smirk. So why I figured why not immortalise it in 3d.

I love it. I would buy it if you put in the store. It's so...2020.

Don't worry about looking in store..this one will be a freebie

As for tonight's WIP, a powerpole (in the modeler rather than a render) . Most likely these parts will be more representational than attempting accuracy. That's because, for real world stuff, I like to model by looking, then moving that visual memory around what passes for a brainbox.
But while we have these types of poles in the UK, they tend to be more rural than urban.

I must be the only one on here who follows politics! Four Seasons was obvious to me. BTW, mrsparky, it's really, really cool.

VedaDalsette posted at 6:24AM Thu, 26 November 2020 - #4405755

I must be the only one on here who follows politics! Four Seasons was obvious to me. BTW, mrsparky, it's really, really cool.

No you ain't, but I wouldn't have known the building. Ol' Sparks is a superb modeller, for sure.

thanks everyone ...sorry there was no update last night, a little darling threw a paddy and vandalised one of our playgroup tables.

While he was sent home without any tea, we couldn't get the graffiti off our logo. We did try some alternate stickers, but our stock was limited because another big toddler was naughty and closed all the cool shops.

So if anyone wants a free table, just leave a message here..

Hehehe. Superb.

Ha!!!! Don't forget his low chair, too.

Breaking News: Area 51 reports early trials of virus eating Daleks prove unsuccessful.

Sparky waves at Sam :)

:D

VedaDalsette posted at 3:24PM Sun, 29 November 2020 - #4405936

Ha!!!! Don't forget his low chair, too.

Will this do ? :)

...and tonight's slightly less silly WIP... the powerlines.. and yep I know it's not accurate. Instead it's a hybrid based on various images of transformers, poles, wires etc, to give the flavour. It's also the largest in terms of mesh/file size - around 2mb - which I think isn't bad given the detail level.

Man, you're really going above and beyond the call of duty with this. I bet there will be people who want it just for the power poles.

Presidential step-stools! Definitely, a must-own item. Autographed, even better.

Well I did ask, but someone was put on the naughty step after trying to eat their crayons. But Mrs Sparky let me stay past my bedtime and I was allowed to play with my pencils...

Note the differences in the renders, P4 still stands up well 20 years later!