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I figured this could be a good place for people to ask for, and deliver Blender Models for minetest mods. You can request whatever you would like to be done, or just offer out your own models.

Can I please make a request?

Please consider the following design constraints:

- make pixels on mobs appear as large (exactly) as pixel in the world. Since 16px is the default texture size, your mobs should be made up of faces that are 1/16x1/16 px large faces. Then a texture pack can provide larger textures for those who want a 32x32 look.

- make legs move at the same speed as the mob. No moonwalking or sliding, unless intentional. If needed, add a "walk" animation and a "run" animation".

- idle animations. Don't ever let an animal sit still. It should always be moving in some way.

- please, consider making mobs entirely out of cuboids, and resist adding sculpted mobs. Yes, it's a blocky world, and I like it that way.

- please, always provide your .blend files. Please license them CC-BY-3/4. Please ask that people using your mobs also put the blend files in the git repo as your mobs.

sofar wrote:Can I please make a request? (edit -coming text here)

You don't need to ask permission, Just ask :P

Cc by 3/4 never heard of that.

Nathan.S wrote:Cc by 3/4 never heard of that.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

of course, I wrote it as a shorthand for "CC-BY-3.0" and "CC-BY-4.0"

oh sorry, my bad.

I tried to start something like this once before but there didn't seem much interest https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=10475

sofar wrote:make legs move at the same speed as the mob.

Framerate and velocity are set by the code, not the model.

sofar wrote:Please ask that people using your mobs also put the blend files in the git repo as your mobs.

I usually do this but it might not always be practical. .blend files can get quite large and if there are a lot of them it could be an issue for some remote servers. Most people won't know what to do with them anyway.

stu wrote:I tried to start something like this once before but there didn't seem much interest https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=10475

sofar wrote:make legs move at the same speed as the mob.

Framerate and velocity are set by the code, not the model.

Yes, but if you make your blender animations only last 10 frames, it's going to look bad no matter the adjustment in code. This takes foresight when making animations.

stu wrote:

sofar wrote:Please ask that people using your mobs also put the blend files in the git repo as your mobs.

I usually do this but it might not always be practical. .blend files can get quite large and if there are a lot of them it could be an issue for some remote servers. Most people won't know what to do with them anyway.

Blend files only end up on the server. they are never sent to the client. Most server operators run gigabytes of bandwidth a day and could care less about a 500k download. I think this argument is pretty darn weak.

But, the biggest problem right now is that there are TONS of mods out there with .b3d and .x files and NOBODY is sharing their blend files. And that's.... that's just weaksauce. At least make a separate github where you put your blend files.

sofar wrote:Yes, but if you make your blender animations only last 10 frames, it's going to look bad no matter the adjustment in code.

Sure but that is not what you wrote.

sofar wrote: NOBODY is sharing their blend files

Wrong! Many people don't and I can understand why, 3d modelling is extremely time consuming and they might not wish to see someone else profiting from their hard work.

stu wrote:

sofar wrote:Yes, but if you make your blender animations only last 10 frames, it's going to look bad no matter the adjustment in code.

Sure but that is not what you wrote.

Would you like to propose an alternative text?

stu wrote:

sofar wrote:NOBODY is sharing their blend files

Wrong! Many people don't and I can understand why, 3d modelling is extremely time consuming and they might not wish to see someone else profiting from their hard work.

then don't release it as MIT or CC-BY, and stop claiming to be Open Source, because it's not.

sofar wrote:Would you like to propose an alternative text?

Not really, I'd just rather people got their facts straight before they start preaching.

sofar wrote:then don't release it as MIT or CC-BY, and stop claiming to be Open Source, because it's not.

You may have a case there with b3d format but directx is human readable and who's to say they didn't write it by hand :p

stu wrote:

sofar wrote:Would you like to propose an alternative text?

Not really, I'd just rather people got their facts straight before they start preaching.

if you can't come up with a better text, then don't write stuff like this.

Some days ago I've created this repository:
https://github.com/NPXcoot/Nssm-models-textures-sounds
It contains all the present and past models used in nssm!
License : CC BY-SA 4.0
Check if interested!

I've made a horse model!

It is in the repository with the other models...

Nice! You make great models npx.

Thank you Don!

Well, I guess I don't need this anymore since i remodeled it so here is my 3rd T.rex remodel

nice one!!!

I'm in need of a modeler cant run modeling software on my junk laptop so here is a list of stuff that I need for my new boss mod : I would like to have are fire dragon sort of like the shape of the ender dragon and a zombie king thats a little bigger than the player mesh and a giant worm(picture is in the description)
and I want the textures to to be pixelated and the mesh's to be more cubical


canceled

You can use the Giant Sandworm of nssm!

I could use some help turning the nodeboxes from my mod, into meshes. (sofar is kickin' my butt) "Too Many Triangles!!!!!" :P and he is right.
The mod: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14801

I used rubenwardy's nodebox editor, and saved the obj. for each node.
I had attempted to convert them into mesh but, after I imported them to Blender, I could not figure out how to group all the nodes into a single mesh. And when I switch the drawtype to mesh and link the .obj files to the init.lua... the objects appear without a texture. :(
I spent a couple hours the other day searching in various ways online, but was unable to find anything.
My next option is to ask on Blender forums, but thought I might ask here as well to increase chances of getting this resolved asap ; )
I have extremely novice experience with Blender and each time they change it, they move everything around haha.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, and your credit added to the mod. Thank you

The obj are in the mod folder. If someone could share a link or something which explains "how" etc? Or even if you convert them for me I would appreciate to know "how" so I do not need to pester others in the future

Hi, I'd like to make a request.

PM me.
Thank you for your time.

I need either a mesh for a table-shaped crafting table including a drawer and a plain table, or the nodebox definitions (I'm a noob with both Blender and the latter). The crafting table needs two variations, one with the drawer closed and the other open.

Thanks.

if anyone could make meshes(and maybe even textures) for dinosaurs and giant insects, i'd love to use them. (for the dinos, maybe a brachiosaurus, or a titanosaurus, and a iguanidon and t-rex(or any other allosaur.) the insects could just a giant spider, as long as its about as the minecraft spider.

SuperPantsofDoom wrote:I'm in need of a modeler cant run modeling software on my junk laptop so here is a list of stuff that I need for my new boss mod : I would like to have are fire dragon sort of like the shape of the ender dragon and a zombie king thats a little bigger than the player mesh and a giant worm(picture is in the description)
and I want the textures to to be pixelated and the mesh's to be more cubical

i have a dragon mesh. how do i make it avalible for download?
(warning:its derpy)

ozkur wrote:(warning:its derpy)

Don't care, we all do derpy things ;) can i see it?

azekill_DIABLO wrote:

ozkur wrote:(warning:its derpy)

Don't care, we all do derpy things ;) can i see it?

i don't know how to upload, but ill try.

(attempts to copy image to post)

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how would i post the model and image, and stuff like that.

weird... try something like tinypic! then take the url and paste it there between 2

ozkur wrote:if anyone could make meshes(and maybe even textures) for dinosaurs and giant insects, i'd love to use them. (for the dinos, maybe a brachiosaurus, or a titanosaurus, and a iguanidon and t-rex(or any other allosaur.) the insects could just a giant spider, as long as its about as the minecraft spider.

Nssm has 4 spiders! Black widow, daddy long legs, uloboros and the tarantula. Link to the repository: https://github.com/NPXcoot/Nssm-models- ... ter/models