While looking for suburban dwellings, I came accross a collection called St Pete's Village, by markiatnet. It consists of 32 different houses:

It would serve well anywhere where a suburban setting is required, such as the latest Pinhead project.

Each model is quite detailed, with an interior layout as well. Components such as windows and doors are separated out, so you can make them into subprops and animate them. The size per model is around 25k polys.

Because of those details, the total scene size is almost one million polys (part of which must be streets, sidewalks, and landscaping) This is a bit unmanageable, so what I did was open a second instance of Sketchup and then copy a single house into it, which I then saved as a new file. I then imported the file into 3DXchange. The scale is not quite right, but when I reduced the size to 80% it was OK.

---

I came upon this sweet little creation on warehouse the other day. It's called 'The Morgan' and it's by a modeler named Apollo. I painted it and chromed everything that needed it, but other than that it's straight out of the warehouse. Hey Jimmy Toon! Check out photo #3...it's a pedal car!!!






pete


http://www.youtube.com/user/peterblood50?feature=mhee

Well, Im realizing that a lot of the images here are not showing as they are direct links to the old google site. The redirect on the urls seem to work for now though. I will try to go back through old posts and replace the images and links with the new urls on the new trimble pages as time allows. In the meantime....

Check out this collection of models from ixllrxi: Hes got a very cool future retro theme going on with lots of cool vehicles and a few retro computers to boot. Worth a look!

I recently needed an ancient grecian/athenian setting and didn't want anything too taxing on the system. LordGood has a very nice Roman Forum prop that you can get down to 40K faces if you remove the trees and the back faces in 3DX. Solid fast solution.