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I am looking for either an HDR or 3D Street scene at night or similar to create a Carnivale parade. I want to add my figures. Cheers

Valiska

HDRIs

I recently bought a large collection of night skies, mostly with stars, here from Orestes Graphics. They are fine sets, and excellent for my purposes. But for a lit city at night, you wouldn't be seeing many stars.

Some HDRIs I passed by because I need more astronomy:

https://hdrmaps.com/hdris/night/

https://www.hdri-hub.com/hdrishop/freesamples/freehdri (and a larger paid collection). 

https://polyhaven.com/hdris/night

There are some HDRI night and evening city street wraparounds at those links; whether any of those streets have the character you want is another question.

Aside from the city streets, there are also sky images with flat or flattish foregrounds your urban 3D scenery can easily hide. Some of these could easily be darkened if need be. https://polyhaven.com/hdris/skies

Streets

There are a lot of different urban models, with different character, and I don't know which you want. Some city sets where you can still see the character of older Catholic Europe, if that's of interest: 

Faveral:

Alsace (more recent and gorgeous)

Yvoire (more recent also)

Provence (also)

Le Village Bundle (older)

Stonemason:

The Streets of Paris

Courtyard Italia

The Streets of Venice

Stonemason also has a lot of less specific, more modern, often dystopian urban work.

at Renderosity:

Parisian Street (older)

European Street for Daz Studio (older)

There is also, at Renderosity, an extensive collection of general city sections by Dreamland models, called Movie Set. (older)

The ones I note as older have smaller textures, also simpler in appearance. They're less demanding to load and render, but they were less likely to get weathering, dirt, incidental scuffs, and other signs of realism, as you can easily see in some of the previews.

If you're going to haul older sets, with those lower resolution, pristine-looking textures, into the same render with something recent, more detailed, or grungier, you probably either want to keep it out of strong light and out of the foreground, or rescale and rework the textures, or apply new shaders to the surfaces.

I don't know of any Daz/Poser models of some obvious completely modern cities to hold a Carnivale-style celebration. At that point I might drag in models from modern-looking urban sets and some of the older-looking ones. I've never rendered a finished work that didn't include background elements from different sets, myself.

Going outside Daz/Poser to import models is possible, but outside of this market, they tend to be more expensive, so I don't do it that often. 

 

 

 

Richard Haseltine

Moved to Product Suggestions as it is not a Daz Studio aplication topic.