Where do you buy 3d assets for your archivis projects?

[Matt_GF]

Hi guys

I'm with a team building an asset library app. I know there are many asset providers out there already but I think there's room for a better product. For instance, many of them don't have an app/plugin that does the tedious work of downloading and creating materials. Not to mention, assets quality isn't always what it should be.

We're in the early stages of our service, designed especially for 3ds Max users who render with V-Ray and Corona but we'll be adding support for more apps. We are looking to learn more about how we can help architectural visualizers beat those crazy deadlines, and more specifically, we'd like to learn about assets. As an architectural visualizer freelancing or working at a studio, you probably purchase assets to populate scenes.

What sort of assets do you guys often find yourselves in need of?

What sort of assets do you most often purchase?

Some examples: very specific harder to find and unique assets, designer items, scene fillers, assets that are harder to model, scanned organic assets, materials, etc.

Cheers

Matt

[francomanko]

Ok so there are loads of providers out there and I agree theres room for a better product, but it really does have to be better. So just a few points, which are obviously based on my own biases/taste etc

Assets wise, some of the things I look/hope for :

• A well curated choice of assets, I don't want sofa's that are so 'designery' that they look like they were only ever bought by Salvador Dali. (this is a big one for me)
• models that are clean and quads, no sloppy modelling.
• models that don't rely on vertex colors or personal workflows.
• high and low res versions where applicable.
• models that don't rely on vertex colors or personal workflows etc.
• well named and clear texture naming for when I inevitably have to remake the materials.

A few examples of websites that are good and bad in my opinion: (too many to go through all of em)

• 3dsky, cgtrader : just way too many objects and a heap of bad objects, seems like very little quality control and a great example of a website where 'less is more' would apply. Can't bare going through these.
• Evermotion : I find this quite slow and tedious to search through, lacking consistency, some great models on there but equally some poor ones Feels like they need to go through and cull some of the older stuff.
• Polyget : probably one of my favorite websites, clean- clear etc, but that might be because there aren't a lot of assets on there, but consistently good assets.
• Model plus model : nice clean website but it wouldn't be my first choice because some of their models (look at sofa pack) are just odd designs, I cant really imagine a scene where they would fit. An example of a lack of interior design skills or referencing.

Now having looked at the asset website that's in your signature, 3dBee.it : Sorry if this isn't applicable (but it is in your post) But this unfortunately would be an example of how not to do it. For you to make a better product it would have to be miles apart from this.

• Assets look low quality..really whoever made this needs to look at other websites and compare quality and price.
• The choice of assets gives the impression you are modelling whatever springs to mind as opposed to looking at relevant real world collections/examples etc. You need to look at good interior designers, don't just model stuff like copper hanging pots.
• Marketing images of assets look bad.
• Strange menus :- Shoe rack next to Sofas (don't just model anything) I mean, how many shoe racks are you going to make that warrants a menu of its own.

[glorybound]

I would like to see someone create libraries of things interior designers are looking at. Maybe stuff from current design magazines. IKEA is popular, so maybe create a library of their quarterly magazines.

I would agree that quality counts. Turbosquid has models that look to be from the 90’s and 3DSKY has stuff like complete Evermotion libraries broken up and resold, so no quality control.

[Vizioen]

Designconnected.com together with their connecter app.

[paulison]

Also struggling with good assets while attempting to return to vray. My office just bought an annual max 2020 licence and a perpetual vray next under my advice but most of my assets are from ~10 years ago so i'm struggling to get good results.

Honestly the best stuff I've seen recently was while dabbling in rendering with Twinmotion - the objects and materials were actually set up really well and easy to use. I would be more than happy to access a simple, minimal library such as that which has been screened for quality control. it's a little embarrassing but because of this, my real time rendering images done recently are more appealing than any vray images I've done.

If someone was to release a simple material library along with categorised objects libraries set up to look awesome in the latest vray, i'd be interested in this. the less work for me the better!. all of the googled sources I've seen recently aside from evermotion have looked quite poor to me, but will refer to the examples above. At this point I'd be happy with even mediocre looking objects with a fairly low polycount and decent material setups on them.

Also no offence to chaos, but I don't want to pay for a vrscans licence. my work isn't high end enough to justify this!

Edit: Looking at Design Connected and have made an account - they have a good selection of free objects but it will be handy when something specific is needed. Good site - hopefully they translate to rendering in vray well!

[fixeighted]

Had quite a few things from DesignConnected and would generally look there before going elsewhere as the quality is great....so far anyway.

As an aside, if people are looking for specific stuff then I am willing to look into building a library of things, if there are enough items to make it economically viable without
having to charge too much for them.

[Macker]

Designconnected and 3Dsky are my two go-to sites for furniture/interior stuff.

maxtree.org is by far the best I've come across for foliage.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

I am using The3dGarden assets from iToo - quite nice variety of trees and bushes, good textures and nicely optimized materials and models.
I used Maxtree as well, but did not like their texture and some models quality.
3dsky is nice resource for assets overall, but for such small price you are receiving "cat in a box", it can be very badly optimized models, weird materials and etc.

[francomanko]

yeah im finding maxtree so heavy that they become a bit of a nightmare to use.

[spencerrayfitch]

I was asked to try out the 3D bee software. I was not a fan. There was nothing in it that I could use. The curration of the assets needed to be better thought out. I love Connecter and think that the asset library should be similar to what they have going on.

As for resources for assets - I use

https://www.bentanji.com/
https://evermotion.org/shop
https://www.modelplusmodel.com
https://www.friendlyshade.com
https://3dsky.org/

[francomanko]

It seems to me that 3d bee priority is trying to get on the subscription wagon as opposed to actually thinking about the assets themselves. Its a bizarre selection of models.