Hi,

yes, I know, google it. but google just spills out tons of 'free model' sites (_not_ animated mostly) and if you look for something 3dsmax compatible, it rather shows me free trial downloads of 3dsmax or warez sites.

(I found some animated models in maya format, .ma and .mb, but I don't have maya, so those are kind of useless for me).




so, has anyone recommendations for a place on the net, where I could download some quality models.

I can make those animated crappy robot arms out of boxes myself , but I'm talking about human alike looking, skinned, animated models, with some thousand polys. (I wouldn't mind if they would have some texture layers, e.g. bumpmap, diffuse, specular etc )




I'm working on realtime animated voxel (see http://twitpic.com/3rm2sa ), and use some game models, but as you can see, those are either

1. quite low poly for nowadays standards

2. not documented enought to use, especially animation data




so, please, if you know a place, post a link (or send me a pm if you don't want to spam).




thanks guys

(if this is rather something for 'help wanted', feel free to move it, I'll adapt to the mandatory template)

Hi,

why dont you use models from a game or one of the mods? E.g. Doom 3, Quake 4, etc.

Take a look at turbosquid, there're some free models available. As far as I understood, you need some models for testing purpose only, right ? When you already got some low poly models, try to apply a subsurface modifier to pump up the number of polys.

Hi,

why dont you use models from a game or one of the mods? E.g. Doom 3, Quake 4, etc.

because...

'Krypt0n' said:

…as you can see, those are either

1. quite low poly for nowadays standards

2. not documented enought to use, especially animation data

the model in the screenshot is the Imp from the doom3 demo

Take a look at turbosquid, there're some free models available. As far as I understood, you need some models for testing purpose only, right ? When you already got some low poly models, try to apply a subsurface modifier to pump up the number of polys.

not just for testing, as I've done testing by simply using not animated high poly models(replicating 100 time the same keyframe), so I know that's working, but now I'm at a state where I'd like to have a show case, a real world example, like an animated human created in z-brush.




[edit]and thanks for to link, I'll check that out again, I think I've already seen this site, but no good models, but cant be wrong to evaluate it again

I followed your both suggestion and added some subdivision, after I figured out CrazyBump can generate displacementmaps from normalmaps, gonna apply them on top.

http://twitpic.com/3ud6cx




cheers and thx so far

I thought, maybe someone would like to see an update. (just tell me if I shall stop spaming




http://twitpic.com/3wozra

- added UV set tracking

- added per vertex lighting

- displacement mapping (thx to ID for shipping with displacement maps!)

- texture mapped rasterization (considering to switch to per vertex texture mapping and just color interpolation, reyes alike).

You initially mentioed voxel rendering... are we seeing some kind of voxel rendering in those pictures? Or these are just samples of the models you are going to convert?