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Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread
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Wrapping up the Grandstand project... here's some Iray renders
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Yes, it's big but its broken into parts so you don't have to load the whole thing. The actual grandstand has four parts; the structure (fairly polygon light, the seating (polygon heavy), the cafe (moderate) and the front of the building (light). There is also a paddock piece (which is moderate). Of course, the Racetrack set is also broken into parts... so it is possible with some camera work and only loading what you need for the scene to render on a more modestly resourced computer,
A couple more images... I'll admit the first one (racing) was a huge resource hog. I created it, saved it and then rebooted my machine with as little running as possible to render it. The others were much easier to do because they were in the paddock area so there was no need to load the Racetrack, Starting Gate and all the Seating on the Grandstand.
Next question... where am I finding the Jockey Silks? Way back in 2012 Marieh and SickleYield created them as a support set for my racetrack and racing tack. The snag is they're 11 years old and for the original Genesis. For that first image, I simply had the Genesis 1 models ride the horses. I then decided to try something crazy. I loaded a G8 male and fit the clothing to it... surprising it fit pretty well. The 3DL shaders were the next issue. I went into the Iray presets and applied the Plastic Low Gloss Shader to the clothing. I also brought the dozen textures I had created for the Silks set and add more variety. The 3 other images show those results.
Next question... where am I finding the Jockey Silks? Way back in 2012 Marieh and SickleYield created them as a support set for my racetrack and racing tack. The snag is they're 11 years old and for the original Genesis. For that first image, I simply had the Genesis 1 models ride the horses. I then decided to try something crazy. I loaded a G8 male and fit the clothing to it... surprising it fit pretty well. The 3DL shaders were the next issue. I went into the Iray presets and applied the Plastic Low Gloss Shader to the clothing. I also brought the dozen textures I had created for the Silks set and add more variety. The 3 other images show those results.
I did some experimenting and managed to fill 2,400 seats with billboard people at the cost of 150 polygons. I think this might work... filling the 11,000+ grandstand at about 1,800 polygons isn't bad. The texture map is 3 rows of 16 people in 4K
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I'm betting you could possibly lose the seats (especially anything in the distance) and just use the crowd to save on resources. The seats are currently divided into 4 sections; Front Right, Front Left, Rear and Cafe
Can you change the red and white plaid shirt? It sticks out a bit and shows it repeating I think.
I alternated some of the characters clothing colors on the texture so its a little more random but with the texture restarting every 4th row there's going to be some patterning...
Here's a couple more renders as I finish up my promo images... one gives a nice view of the crowd and post parade and the other, a nice view of the box seating.
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As the Pixel Down items moved through beta and QA, I decided to switch gears and do something "fun"... not that doing updates is painful-- I enjoyed tying in on the Grandstand set to the other Pixel Downs and Horse Racing Tack sets... but returning to my "normal" fare is sort of comfort food to my artistic drive. I decided to start a long promised set and to give a little love to my Nature's Wonders line with 6 Turtles from the "New World". Here's half of them... I'm starting work on the "Snappers" of the set now 
In order to really capture its scale, I've used one of my Songbird ReMix props. The Bog Turtle is the smallest turtle in the Americas. Sadly, he's critically endangered. Originally found across the eastern coast of the US, changes to his habitat (urbanization) and illegal capture for the pet trade have resulted in the disappearance of 80% of the colonies that existed 30 years ago.
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Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Love the turtle, but hate the news that it is critically endangered.