If only there was a communal source of assets that people and companies can contribute to and pull from. If something doesn’t quite fit your game you could instead spend 10 hours editing and adjusting a premade model instead of 40 hours making it from scratch. Then upload the new model for someone else to start with later.
Except reusing the same model/texture can be very good for performance. It doesn’t matter if there’s 1 instance or 1000 of a model in the game, it takes up the same amount of memory. Even transforming it/scaling it barely changes that.
I don’t know what the situation is for commercial games — I don’t know if there’s a marketplace like that — but I do remember someone setting up some repository for free/Creative Commons assets a while back.
It’s not highly-structured in the sense that someone can upload, say, a model in Format X and someone else can upload a patch against that model or something like that with improvements and changes, though. Like, it’s not quite a “GitHub of assets”.
I’m sure that there must be some sort of commercial asset marketplace out there, probably a number, though I don’t know if any span all game asset types or if they permit easily republishing modifications. I know that I’ve occasionally stumbled across a website or two that have individuals sell 3D models.
Game engines like unreal engine and unity have huge prefab libraries that contain both free and paid models and people can share or sell their own prefabs too. The problem with those are that you cant just pick models willy nilly as it can make the game feel like patchwork quilt when every asset has little different art style. Also in bigger production games things like polygon counts start to matter a lot, so in some cases its easier to make assets from the ground up than start to fiddle with existing models.
Most bigger studios have pretty large internal libraries they can pull from. Like for example mountain lions in GTA V and Red dead redemption are almost identical. They even use the exactly same sound in both. And bears in Skyrim and Yao Guai in Fallout 4 have same skeleton and some of the animations are fully reused.
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If only there was a communal source of assets that people and companies can contribute to and pull from. If something doesn’t quite fit your game you could instead spend 10 hours editing and adjusting a premade model instead of 40 hours making it from scratch. Then upload the new model for someone else to start with later.
Except reusing the same model/texture can be very good for performance. It doesn’t matter if there’s 1 instance or 1000 of a model in the game, it takes up the same amount of memory. Even transforming it/scaling it barely changes that.
I don’t know what the situation is for commercial games — I don’t know if there’s a marketplace like that — but I do remember someone setting up some repository for free/Creative Commons assets a while back.
goes looking
https://opengameart.org/
It’s not highly-structured in the sense that someone can upload, say, a model in Format X and someone else can upload a patch against that model or something like that with improvements and changes, though. Like, it’s not quite a “GitHub of assets”.
I’m sure that there must be some sort of commercial asset marketplace out there, probably a number, though I don’t know if any span all game asset types or if they permit easily republishing modifications. I know that I’ve occasionally stumbled across a website or two that have individuals sell 3D models.
I honestly dont know if this is sarcasm or not.
Game engines like unreal engine and unity have huge prefab libraries that contain both free and paid models and people can share or sell their own prefabs too. The problem with those are that you cant just pick models willy nilly as it can make the game feel like patchwork quilt when every asset has little different art style. Also in bigger production games things like polygon counts start to matter a lot, so in some cases its easier to make assets from the ground up than start to fiddle with existing models.
Most bigger studios have pretty large internal libraries they can pull from. Like for example mountain lions in GTA V and Red dead redemption are almost identical. They even use the exactly same sound in both. And bears in Skyrim and Yao Guai in Fallout 4 have same skeleton and some of the animations are fully reused.