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Traditional Irish Village?

tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742
edited November 2022 in Product Suggestions

I'd love to have a village made of those tiny traditional Irish stone cottages, white-washed or stone-faced, with straw roofs or slates, set in a gorgeous landscape of lush green rolling hills with low stone walls everywhere!

The only thing I can find in the store is a very old set with only one house in it - https://www.daz3d.com/humble-homestead-in-the-hills. It's kind of strange, we have all sorts of medieval buildings, but all of them of the half-timbered or wattle and daub style, which wasn't widely used in Ireland for lack of wood. Also there's loads of Scottish landscapes, but for Ireland, only the Crannog set which looks like Donegal highlands to me, but without the green boggy parts unfortunately (also, the mountains are quite wrong).

if anyone of the vendors like Stonemason or Predatron or KindredArts was interested, that would be so cool! Or maybe someone knows of a set elsewhere and can point me to it?

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742

    Oh, and if it's a bit larger village: with a pub, of course!

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,662

    In some ways I am reluctant to suggest this, as even though it is not old, it has the quality you'd expect from a Poser4 prop. . https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/bcs/irish-cottage-for-daz-studio/154762/

    It could be worked on to bring it to a decent quality, but you shouldn't have to. You may get the idea I'm not entirely sold on it myself.

    Regards,

    Richard 

  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742

    richardandtracy said:

    In some ways I am reluctant to suggest this, as even though it is not old, it has the quality you'd expect from a Poser4 prop. . https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/bcs/irish-cottage-for-daz-studio/154762/

    It could be worked on to bring it to a decent quality, but you shouldn't have to. You may get the idea I'm not entirely sold on it myself.

    Regards,

    Richard 

    Thanks, I'd totally overlooked that one! Yes, it's quite - uh, simple really, especially the outside. The inside is rather nice, actually. The price is a bit insane though, for what it is, I feel. And then it's only a single house with not much variation possible, sadly. Good starting point though!

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,662
    edited November 2022
    Maybe the Devon Village by the same vendor could add a bit of variety. It looks sufficiently 'vaguely' Devon to work as an Irish village, I think. And most churches and church yards are similar on either side of the Fastnet straight. Regards, Richard
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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742

    Thanks again for your help, fhe Devon set is also wishlisted for now. It' just that in both these sets, almost all the - dunno, ruggedness? - is missing because they're so little detailed: the stone structures, the rough edges and angles, the coarseness of the roof, all that, you know? Those things that make you feel a place, even though it's really just 3d.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,662
    After a closer look at that set.. The pub has a chimney stack in a really stupid place. I hope it's not modelled on a real building as the two upstairs rooms in the middle would be close to unusable, and the downstairs layout would have to be mighty inconvenient. Regards, Richard.
  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,662
    Yeah, I know. I think the modelling and texturing is really old-fashioned. And not in a good way. Not sure it's redeemable. You could distract attention by using lots of detail props, but.. shouldn't have to. Regards, Richard.
  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742

    Right, I wish there was something like the recent beautiful Stonemason village, the one in the Michael 9 medieval set. But he's busy atm finishing that Paris set which I'm also really, really interested in - so can't complain there, but keeping my fingers crossed he'll turn to old Erin sometime after maybe. Still, it's kind of weird, isn't it? I feel it should be a very popular subject, for European as well as American buyers.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202
    edited November 2022

    Dark Anvil sets may be suitable 

    I got them from Poserdirect, https://www.poserdirect.com/free_build.html

    think are at Vanishing Point now or

    Sparkyworld http://www.sparkyworld.co.uk/ but cannot find

     I can find Dark Anvil products NotAvailable at Renderosity through Google but not a legitimate source anywhere crying

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742

    Thanks Wendy!

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