NYC Tenement Rooftop for DAZ Studio
Climb the last flight of stairs and step out onto a New York tenement roof. NYC Tenement Rooftop recreates the flat roof of a six-storey early-20th-century building: 20 x 14 m of rolled roofing with seams, patches, base flashing, ponding dips, a cast-iron drain and puddles, a 1 m brick parapet with stone coping, the stucco rooftop access bulkhead with its steel door, concrete steps, canopy, wall lamp and roof ladder, and a wooden water tower on a steel stand with a ladder (gooseneck top) and roof hatch. Brick chimneys with terracotta pots, vent pipes, a turbine vent, a ventilation duct, a wired-glass skylight, a metal railing, a service platform and a wooden step ladder complete the scene. Use it for noir and crime stories, period drama, summer evenings on the tar beach, rooftop chases and city romance.
The roof does not float in space: the building's own front with its fire escape drops six storeys to a street with sidewalks, rows of brick, buff-brick and brownstone neighbours stand around the roof at different heights, and a 360-degree distant Manhattan skyline closes the horizon. Five lighting presets set everything in one click - the Iray Sun-Sky for New York on 21 June (Day, Golden Hour, Sunset, Night, Overcast), the matching skyline image for day, golden hour or night, the lit city windows, the rooftop lamps and the exposure.
Load a ready scene - Empty (the plain roof with chimneys and vents), Classic NYC (bulkhead, water tower, skylight and the street-side parapet passage with a gooseneck ladder to the fire escape) or Used (extra equipment and puddles) - or build your own from five sets that load in place: Bare Roof, Rooftop Access - Complete, Water Tower with Ladder, Building Facade and Fire Escape, and City Surroundings. The parapet is modular (straight 2 m and 1 m, corner, passage, railing section) and every element is also a separate prop.
Inside the bulkhead, the top flight of the series' tenement stairwell leads down to the storey below, with hexagonal floor tiles, a wooden handrail on iron balusters and wall lamps. The steel door opens with a Door Open control. Three one-click wear scripts switch every surface between Clean, Used and Aged, and the same looks are included as material presets for selected items. Repeated pieces - parapet modules, chimneys, vents, railing parts - are DAZ node instances, which keeps memory use and Iray load down.
AuraVix_Studio, Environments and Props
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