http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx Forum - General Discussion - Asset library? - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:21:57 GMT Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:21:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx
Thanks for your willingness to share your knowledge with others... its part of what makes this forum less like an information archive and more like a community of friends]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:21:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:14:37 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx


...the VW Beetle is a 'working' prop, made of many separate elements so the doors open and the wheels are separate so I can spin them, etc, whereas all the other cars are static models, some of which are just shells with a standard 'interior' to give seats and steering wheels. The wheels can be a big polygon hog, so sometimes the shell has no wheels either and I add standard wheels to them too. I had to assemble the Beetle in it's own set (at the correct scale!) and then copy and paste the finished car into this set. The Chevy 57 is there as a sort of 3D modellers joke, since that's the first free model you always got with the early 3D programs. The cars in the distance are primitive (there's even a couple of Muvizu ones in there to make up the numbers) since you can't really see them all that well. No point in fancy models for the background ]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:39:36 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx
Did you break them into parts? And if I were to break more complicated models into parts, at what point would I reassemble the parts back into a car? Inside Muvizu?

oh, and thanks for the max polygon info.. I'm sure I've read that somewhere, but I've reached an age where being reminded of the details is needful and greatly appreciated. ;-)]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:10:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:41:39 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx
There are lots of cool 3d objects available for free online... but I haven't had much success converting them into anything I can use in Muvizu. Unless its a really simple model (low poly and not very complicated design) after I resize it to match the scale of my Muvizu world and export it as FBX, just about everything I've tried to use from these sites comes into Muvizu looking scrambled.

Apparently others have overcome the obstacle that I can't seem to get past, and I'm curious to hear what others are doing to help downloaded objects import more accurately into the Muvizu environment

It should be noted that I don't have this problem when I make the model myself. I have to think the problem originates with the complexity of the models (overlapping polygons, duplicate and triplicate copies of the same features embedded in the model etc)]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:11:45 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx http://muvizu.com/Wiki/wiki/115

I'd also recommend Renderosity, ShareCG.com, Archive3D.net and the Sketchup 3D Warehouse.]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:51:03 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5647-asset-library.aspx
Thanks!

John]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2016 04:00:30 GMT