Proper old pub?

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  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246

    This is the best I can do with kitbashing. I could live with it but I do think I'll have a go at modeling it. If it turns out okay, it will turn into my next freebie.  UV mapping and texturing are my nemises so nothing I do is ever really product paid product quality, just a heads up on that.

     

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  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,291
    edited November 2018

    I've used the tavern for a number of my illos for various fan fests and what all. Generally just twiddled with the diffuse for color and used warm lights. (Of course, I was working in 3DL). Did have to kitbash the door, since the one of the Tavern isn't rigged to open. 

    How small does a file have to be before you can upload it? I've taken the one I'm trying to upload from 800px down to 648px and it still won't upload. It's 72ppi, and even at the befinning was only 223kb.

    (Question answered. It did upload. It just wouldn't show the thumbnail.)

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  • GreymomGreymom Posts: 1,128

    Turbosquid has some classic beer pumps as previously posted.  Four different models.  On sale today.  May have to convert from .3DS or get their "free conversion" service.

     

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited November 2018

    This is a little old Irish pub and restaurant.  Clicking on the history button gives some nice images,  as do a couple of the other buttons
    http://www.manowar.ie/#welcome

    My son says they do nice food.

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  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,635

    I had to chuckle at one of the children's menu items...chicken nuggets and french fries.  Never considered that had become so universal.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited November 2018

    well Balbriggan is trying to promote itself as "Ireland's youngest town" maybe they have to have a few modern items on the menu - although the Man o' War is in the rural part of town.

    My son will be busy for the next year or so in the background of the promotional stuff as he works for Balbriggan Chamber of Commerce.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,456

    This is the best I can do with kitbashing. I could live with it but I do think I'll have a go at modeling it. If it turns out okay, it will turn into my next freebie.  UV mapping and texturing are my nemises so nothing I do is ever really product paid product quality, just a heads up on that.

     

    Now that is sufficient at opening or closing time; mostly the floors need to be darker, glossier, and smaller slats. Looks inviting as a pub.

  • GreymomGreymom Posts: 1,128

    Sketchup Warehouse has some traditional beer pump models as well.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,457

    This is the best I can do with kitbashing. I could live with it but I do think I'll have a go at modeling it. If it turns out okay, it will turn into my next freebie.  UV mapping and texturing are my nemises so nothing I do is ever really product paid product quality, just a heads up on that.

     

    ....not bad.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,457
    Chohole said:

    This is a little old Irish pub and restaurant.  Clicking on the history button gives some nice images,  as do a couple of the other buttons
    http://www.manowar.ie/#welcome

    My son says they do nice food.

    ...hmm I have couple thatched roof buildings I picked up as freebies.  

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,457
    edited November 2018

    ...there's a beer engine in .obj format at CG trader for 9$

    https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/sports/equipment/beer-pump

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,456

    There is a 16 hands statue of an old horse called Man O'War a few miles north of where I used to work. Massive statue. I think it's 20 hands on it's pedestal. That was supposed to be the greatest race horse ever. In US, evey place likes to call themselves 'the youngest' but it's codespeak for overpriced and faddish.

  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 4,935

    There is a 16 hands statue of an old horse called Man O'War a few miles north of where I used to work. Massive statue. I think it's 20 hands on it's pedestal. That was supposed to be the greatest race horse ever.

    Man O' War was one of the greatest race horses of the 20th century. Also wound up being the sire for a really startling number of very good race horses in the next generation, and thus wound up in the bloodlines of a lot of horses after that. Considered a "heavy" thoroughbred type -- tall and big, which explains the height of the statue. I think he's mostly remembered in part because of timing -- he was the first great thoroughbred after WWI and after the restoration of horse racing. Didn't win the Triple Crown because he didn't race in the Kentucky Derby; his owner felt that was too much to ask of a young three year old. Set several speed records that stood for a long time. He also carried heavier weights than almost any race horse since.

    ... Ahem. Yes, apparently stuff that you read back when you were a teenager will lodge in your head and choose the oddest moments to make an appearance.

    On topic ... I got nothin'.  Although darker wood shaders with smaller tiling would help, whether you wind up using the kitbashed stuff or making your own.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,456
    vwrangler said:

    There is a 16 hands statue of an old horse called Man O'War a few miles north of where I used to work. Massive statue. I think it's 20 hands on it's pedestal. That was supposed to be the greatest race horse ever.

    Man O' War was one of the greatest race horses of the 20th century. Also wound up being the sire for a really startling number of very good race horses in the next generation, and thus wound up in the bloodlines of a lot of horses after that. Considered a "heavy" thoroughbred type -- tall and big, which explains the height of the statue. I think he's mostly remembered in part because of timing -- he was the first great thoroughbred after WWI and after the restoration of horse racing. Didn't win the Triple Crown because he didn't race in the Kentucky Derby; his owner felt that was too much to ask of a young three year old. Set several speed records that stood for a long time. He also carried heavier weights than almost any race horse since.

    ... Ahem. Yes, apparently stuff that you read back when you were a teenager will lodge in your head and choose the oddest moments to make an appearance.

    On topic ... I got nothin'.  Although darker wood shaders with smaller tiling would help, whether you wind up using the kitbashed stuff or making your own.

    Horse racing is very much on topic with pubs like rugby and football are on topic. Have you never visited a pub?

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246
    edited December 2018

    I've begun working on a traditional Irish pub. To make it warm and cozy, it has to have a fireplace, and to  make it look traditional it has to be stone in my view. So I made one.  I added it to the kitbash for the moment, just to see how it looks. Textures are all from Filter Forge so they are shareable. 

    EDIT: I've updated the fireplace and created some rough hewn beams, I like that "it's been here 200 years" feel of some of the pubs I've been in in Ireland. So I'm going with that.  Stone fireplace, massive timber beams, maybe even stone floors.  Right now only the beams and fireplace (and associated textures) are my own work, the rest are primatives and props from other sets just to make it look pub-like.

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  • IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159
    Chohole said:
    Ikyoto said:
    Chohole said:

    What you have to remember is that Irish pubs....  blah blah blah

    I learned Irish economics in one.  You can only drink till you owe everypne.

    Do you know there are 772 pubs in Dublin county.  In the area of County Dublin where my son lives  are 86 of them.  County Cork beats Dublin as it has 955 pubs (and less people to use them)

    They almost have a proper ratio of pubs tah flies.

  • IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Ikyoto said:

    Note to all properpint drinkers.  It's called a"pull" because theolderstyle barrels were not preasurized.  They wereattached to a long siphon pipe and the pull of thehandle is what brought the beer or stout up.

    Guiness seems to taste best if pulled like that from a kag 25' from the spout.

    ...the device itself referred to as a "Beer Engine" (see below). 

    Firkins were stored down in a cellar just below to keep them cooled (hence the term "cellar temperature") and were not refrigerated as is more popular in the states (actually, when it comes to American "industrial" swill, having it served "ice cold" is a blessing as you don't get a chance to taste how wretched they really are). 

    We have a few pubs which do draw stouts and specialty ales with a beer engine and even maintain them at cellar temperature (or as close as possible).   More often than not though, craft and import ales are dispensed through the usual CO₂ driven taps used here for decades and are often as heavily refrigerated as the swill beers served which doesn't allow the full character and flavour to come through.  Some pubs do use an NO₂ driven system for stouts, porters, and certain specialty ales, but again they are often chilled to a lower temperature as well..

    Yes    a lot of American's will scorn british "warm beer"    but cellar temperature is the ideal temp to drink real Ale and guiness is never ever chilled

    I only drink chilled stuff ifit's both paid for ot of someoneelses's pocket AND all there is AND brought tome.  I've actually been known tocause a "fuss" is anyonegets into the rare guiness I caan get here.

  • IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159

    I added some translucency to the wood with a red hue, and metallic flakes topcoat, red flakes with low density and high roughness and got it a bit warmer looking I think.

    I still think I probably ought to have a go at modeling it from scratch.

     

    Yup, kit baashing and re-shading OR modeling it seems to be the way to go.

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