Free or paid 3D models?

Author

3,705

April 20, 2011 04:22 PM

Where can I find free or paid 3D models designed to be used in game development? I found Dexsoft, about I would like to see other offers before buying...

kdmiller3

178

April 20, 2011 04:32 PM

TurboSquid is another option.

GameCreator

997

April 21, 2011 05:22 PM

Three more:
http://www.3drt.com/
http://www.arteria3d.com/
http://shop.pure3d.de/ (rocks, trees, plants, etc.)

Also second Turbosquid. It's a good source with lots of selection, including many nice free or cheap models.

JackOfAllTrades

109

April 21, 2011 09:14 PM

I think you can use models from Google 3D Warehouse for free but I'm not entirely sure... Can anyone verify that these models can be used for commercial projects?

Want an easy to use open source 3D video game SDK that handles Physics, Graphics, Audio, and AI right out of the box?

wildpins

40

April 21, 2011 09:40 PM

making them yourself is easy. Start in Blender then search around on Google.

Failure is simply denying the truth and refusing to adapt for success. Failure is synthetic, invented by man to justify his laziness and lack of moral conduct. What truely lies within failure is neither primative or genetic. What failure is at the heart, is man's inability to rise and meet the challenge. Success is natural, only happening when man stops trying to imitate a synthetic or imaginable object. Once man starts acting outside his emotional standpoints, he will stop trying to imitate synthetic or imaginable objects called forth by the replication of his emptiness inside his mind. Man's mind is forever idle and therefore shall call forth through the primitives of such subconscious thoughts and behaviors that Success is unnatural and that failure is natural. Success is simply doing something at man's full natural abilities and power, failure is the inability to act on what man wants, dreams, wishes, invisions, or thinks himself to do. ~ RED (concluded when I was 5 years old looking at the world with wide eyes)

JackOfAllTrades

109

April 21, 2011 10:41 PM

making them yourself is easy. Start in Blender then search around on Google.

I've been making models for years and I would hardly say it's "easy..."

Want an easy to use open source 3D video game SDK that handles Physics, Graphics, Audio, and AI right out of the box?

FableFox

703

April 22, 2011 12:09 PM

Go with paid model - from reliable sources.

http://forum.reallusion.com/Topic54366-13-1.aspx

You can choose free models, but also from reliable sources. eg: 3D World cd-rom/dvd-rom. 3D Artist. Well known shop eg (http://www.cgaxis.com/). Be carefull with free to upload sites, such as TurboSquid. Some of the models are free, but still IP infringement (Gundam models, Mechwarriro models). It could be something that you though was harmless (eg. a robot you do'nt know anything about) only to found out it has been either modelled based on a known IP, or ripped from games you didn't know. Or from a paid 3d collection, that has been warezed around, and re-uploaded.

If you plan to sell the game(s), use reliable sources. Purchased with recepit with paper/digital trail is good, at least it shows that you are NOT the guilty party.

PropheticEdge

150

April 22, 2011 09:40 PM

making them yourself is easy. Start in Blender then search around on Google.

Drawing is pretty easy too, you just put a pencil on a piece of paper and go nuts.

For the untrained, yeah you could get up to speed and make simple models pretty easily, but I don't think a dude can go form 0->decent character animation on short notice.