Gymnasium & Bleachers

kksmith6515

Here is a product I had been considering purchasing for quite a while https://www.daz3d.com/small-sports-hall but the fact that it contains no bleachers has held me back. After all, most if not all school gymnasium's I know of have them and it's important for the kind of scene I want to create. Unfortunately, the only bleachers that Daz sells are these https://www.daz3d.com/wooden-bleachers which obviously would be completely inappropriate for an indoor environment.  Now I know there is this https://www.daz3d.com/gymnasium but frankly I don't like the looks of it and it doesn't very seem realistic to me. 

So does anyone know of how I could add bleachers to the scene that would look realistic and appropriate? Or perhaps there might be a new product coming out soon that would have them?  Please bear in mind that I am NOT a model maker so making it myself is not an option. Just as a point of reference, I'm attaching a pic I found on the web of something I feel would come closer to what I'm describing. I'm not saying it should look exactly like this but if it had bleachers, this is more along the lines of what I was thinking about. 

 

 

AJ2112

Those are team practice gyms, unfortunately not public.  Not the best bleachers in the world, but here's some stadium bleachers, left, right and center from creator vince.     

http://www.sharecg.com/v/14678/browse/5/3D-Model/Stadium-Bleacher-LH-Section-OBJ3DSLWO

Here's a basketball gym with bleachers.  Hope these help.   

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/5fa5b47617502596961b6f2b106b1690/basketball-gym?hl=en

 

kksmith6515

For some reason this has really been on my mind today, then I got this idea. It might not be necessary to have bleachers at all. Daz, has this thing called billboards here is an example:

https://www.daz3d.com/insta-crowd-billboards

Now, personally I've never tried using them and they are rather pricey, but it seems to me like if you were using the sports hall that I mentioned above and took a couple of these things, or however many were needed and spread them out along the sides of the gym so that it provides the illusion of a bunch of people standing around watching the game that might suffice. Of course, I guess you'd have to be careful about camera angles and things like that but seems like it might work.

Anyone else have some thoughts on this?

The Blurst of Times

You can make your own billboard people if you want to. Don't depend on them for detail work (learn the depth of field settings).

Use quick renders of people you make to create your own billboards. Use 2D planes to set up your people in the stands.

Alpha channels to set up opacity maps. You need to learn a little PhotoShop or GIMP to do this.

AJ2112

I was gonna suggest billboards, but never used.  Good luck, have fun.