Daz3d How to Craft and Populate and Detail Big Cities in Daz Studio Free Download

With so many urban assets available at the Daz 3D store, a natural inclination is to build an urban environment or to even create a whole city! But where do you start to generate such a sophisticated environment?

With 3.5 hours of tutorials, Richard Schafermeyer (rgcincy) takes you through the steps of crafting, populating and detailing a big city for Daz Studio. He’ll show you techniques, scripts and the best assets to construct a busy metropolis!

He’ll be creating from a bird’s eye view as well as down at street level, having a particular emphasise on realism and making a “used” look for the buildings and streets.

Crafting

•Build a road network
•Adding buildings
•Main tools: movement methods, instances, various scripts, scene subsets and layer compositing

Populating

•Populate your streets with people and vehicles
•Main tools: instances, scattering, billboards and use of low-resolution figures

Detailing

•Adding dirt, weathering and a used look to buildings
•Adding and scattering debris elements in a street for realism

The tutorials will take a close look at:-

Issues to Overcome

• Memory limitations (RAM, VRAM)
• Moving around a large scene
• Creating variety (buildings, people, vehicles)
• Lack of sufficient models for specific era or locale
• Positioning numerous objects
• Making it look lived-in
• Showing infrastructure
• Street elements and visual clutter (e.g., mailboxes, benches, light poles, etc.)

General Techniques to Use

• Instances
• Scene subsets
• PNG layers, Iray Canvases
• Billboards
• Foreground vs background resolution
• Scripts
• Kitbashing

Viewing a Big City

• Bird’s eye view – see full scope of a city
• Drive through
• Street scene with big city showing in background
• Vignettes – Implied City

About the presenter : Richard Schafermeyer (rgcincy)