Update: rendered pictures

After experiencing a few months of success, Lavendwood Commercial Trading Agricultural and Manufacturing Enterprise Limited had finally built up a subtantial amount of capital. Hugo now belived it was time to invest and expand the the business. Therefore, he sent instructions to his man in Port Raleigh, Richard, to establish a new, larger sugar plantation.

Richard overlooking the ongoing work together with the plantation overseer, at the management office

A few workers going off to harvest

And finally, an overview of the plantation

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I felt it was time to start investing in some buildings again. I hope to build more in Port Raleigh in the future as the town has been sadly neglected.

I have replaced my previous sugar cane technique with Ayrlego's from his Royal Sugar Plantation and I think it works quite well. I was also apparently struck by madness when buildning and chose to do everything from the ground beneath the canes to the office house as complicated as possible, probably increasing the build time fourfold. But I am happy with the result, so I guess it was worth it. 

Sadly, I still havn't got around to figuring out bluerender so the pictures could probably be better.

All comments and criticism are welcome!

Original pictures:

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Edited June 16, 20186 yr by Flavius Gratian

That's a very nice plantation. Although the field initially appears to be uniform, I spotted some variation in the terrain and canes. The building is very nice, too. My favorite feature has to be the double-layered roof (I don't know what this design is actually called), and the fact that it is elevated. 

Really cool looking build! The terrain is nicely done and I also like how that plantation building turned out!

Bluerender is pretty easy to use once you figure it out. Here are a couple of things to check out if you want to get into it:

And here is a step-by-step tutorial:

If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to PM me!

Excellent LDD build Flavius, the build shows great variation and attention to detail. Keep up the great work!

On 2018-05-30 at 4:17 PM, Captain Genaro said:

That's a very nice plantation. Although the field initially appears to be uniform, I spotted some variation in the terrain and canes. The building is very nice, too. My favorite feature has to be the double-layered roof (I don't know what this design is actually called), and the fact that it is elevated. 

Thank you! Yes, I tried to put detail into every part of it, glad it's appreciated! I don't know whats it's called either, but it took me some effort to make it work since it's not completely symetric.

On 2018-05-30 at 6:20 PM, LM71Blackbird said:

Really cool looking build! The terrain is nicely done and I also like how that plantation building turned out!

Bluerender is pretty easy to use once you figure it out. Here are a couple of things to check out if you want to get into it:

Thank you very much! I will look into the links when I have time. I don't think it's very hard, I have just not felt able to spend the mental effort required to learn a new program.

15 hours ago, Mesabi said:

Excellent LDD build Flavius, the build shows great variation and attention to detail. Keep up the great work!

Thank you! I'm happy my madness is appreciated! I most certainly will!

Great plantation Flavius, we are really getting into the sugar cane business here in Corrington! I feel your pain building all those canes - I remember well from the Royal I did... at least it isn't quite as bad as building them physically - that was even worse! It's a pity that you can't get the rendering to work, I think this build really deserves it - if you want a lazy solution you could always email me the LLD file and I can attempt a quick render. Anyway great job, and it is indeed nice to see Port Raleigh getting some love!

 

This is a great plantation really like all the action

Blue render has worked well for me although sometimes I have to close ldd then open blue render.  Ive also found that even if the render looks finished check to see the file actually loads from the folder before closing the render window lol.   

One thing that may make your cane application quicker.  Ive found I do it with piles of crates and barrels ... Copy them to templates or hold ctrl while selecting all the parts of the plant then hit the copy tool it should copy the whole plant for you.

While the rendering might need some work, the rest of the MOC is amazing. The fields seem really crowded with plants and look great, the house is well built and seems perfect for the purpose. Nice minifig posing, great base layout with the paths, nice colour choice - wonderful work all around. And really, the fields seem so vivid, fantastic. :-) 

On 2018-06-01 at 2:26 PM, Ayrlego said:

Great plantation Flavius, we are really getting into the sugar cane business here in Corrington! I feel your pain building all those canes - I remember well from the Royal I did... at least it isn't quite as bad as building them physically - that was even worse! It's a pity that you can't get the rendering to work, I think this build really deserves it - if you want a lazy solution you could always email me the LLD file and I can attempt a quick render. Anyway great job, and it is indeed nice to see Port Raleigh getting some love!

 

Thank you! Though the sugar canes were, indeed, a pain, that was to be expected; it was all the other "unnecessary" details that took some mental resolve. I will look into Bluerender now that I'm free for summer, so hopefully I can get updated pictures within the forseeable future. I have sort of seen the neglect of Port Raleigh as an opportunity and plan to do some more builds.

On 2018-06-02 at 9:28 AM, Roadmonkeytj said:

This is a great plantation really like all the action

Blue render has worked well for me although sometimes I have to close ldd then open blue render.  Ive also found that even if the render looks finished check to see the file actually loads from the folder before closing the render window lol.   

One thing that may make your cane application quicker.  Ive found I do it with piles of crates and barrels ... Copy them to templates or hold ctrl while selecting all the parts of the plant then hit the copy tool it should copy the whole plant for you.

Thank you very much! I just havn't felt like spending the (probably small) effort to figure out Bluerender, but now when it's summer I think I'll have some time. Well, I know how to copy whole biulds, indeed I did so when building this, but they still need to be placed and not block each other, which takes quite some time.

On 2018-06-03 at 10:51 AM, Elostirion said:

While the rendering might need some work, the rest of the MOC is amazing. The fields seem really crowded with plants and look great, the house is well built and seems perfect for the purpose. Nice minifig posing, great base layout with the paths, nice colour choice - wonderful work all around. And really, the fields seem so vivid, fantastic. :-) 

Thank you!  Since I decided to to an LDD build I thought I should use the tool properly and try out some different challenges. Glad you think it worked!

Since I've finally got around to using Bluerender I've updated the pictures

23 minutes ago, Flavius Gratian said:

Since I've finally got around to using Bluerender I've updated the pictures

Looking good Flavius!

Indeed, looking great, well worth the effort!

2 hours ago, LM71Blackbird said:

Looking good Flavius!

Thank you!

1 hour ago, Drunknok said:

Indeed, looking great, well worth the effort!

Thanks! I agree, though I've always thought it a shame that Bluerender doesn't visualise the lines between bricks