If you are looking for free 3d models in 3ds format: Click here!

I've found this archive by chance!

Keep on 3ding ;-)

Yours Bernie

Lots of good models. Thanks for the link!

Any cherubs there Bryster?!

BTW: I also posted the link in the Poser forum.

There many people said that these models are possibly stolen.

So the moderator deleted the link!

I could not see that the models are stolen or something like that.

I just wanted that you know this!

This is another link with superb outstanding furniture models.

Sometimes they have formats that we can not use.

;-)

Bernie

I downloaded a couple of the items at this site but I'm wondering.  Is there a special trick to getting the textures to show up?  When I unzip the downloaded file, the textures are all there in the same folder as the .3ds file.  However, they don't show up in the Vue render - only the different-colored texture zones.  I don't see a "keep the texture" box or something similar to check.

I think you have to put them manually back!

Download http://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=14755 and then compare the shoe mesh with http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=52847&vendor=341157.

The quality of the models is too good for freebies, they are conversions/rip offs of commercial libraries. Free stuff is what you find on ShareCG or 3D warehouse (read: in 99% of the cases, pure rubbish).

Bye...

Attached Link: Dosch Designs

I participate in the archivenet when possible, and contribute models there. Almost all the other contributors there are people known to me in the architecture business. To my knowledge, about 90-percent of the models really are freebies. About 10-percent or maybe less of them are stolen, as you correctly say. These latter were contributed by Chinese architects, who probably are not always aware of what is stolen and what is not. In China, many, many MAX models and texture files are circulating freely in the architecture community without their provenance being well understood. Sometimes, some of those end up here.

By the way, a tremendous share of the stolen models available on Chinese architectural web sites are from various Dosch model and texture collections. So, if you are in doubt as to whether you should download something from Archivenet that you like, you might want to first check against the inventory of Dosch models. Then, if you don't see a correspondence, it's probably safe to help yourself to what you see. If you do find a correspondence - that is, you see a Dosch model on Archivenet, you might want to drop Dosch a quick e-mail, so that he can have the model in question removed.

What Alexcoppo says about the low quality of free models is generally true. However, some of us do try to make high quality freebies available when we can. Most of us model-builders can easily remember when we did not know how to model and were dependent on the good grace of others. So, we try to repay those earlier efforts, in kind. I don't place my freebies here, because Rendo lacks the server space to host such things. But, as almost everyone here knows, you can find my contributions at C3D.  I'm glad for this thread, because it reminds me that I need to make more for the general community. I needed this kick-in-the-pants reminder - so "Thanks" for that -LOL!

Other copyright violations (and I write violation because the readme included in the original zips explicitly deny the right of redistribution):

1. http://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=7747 is Poseruniverse WaterFilter http://www.poseruniverse.net/Models2/WaterFilter.html

2. http://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=12620 is Poseruniverse LPG Tank http://www.poseruniverse.net/Models2/LPG_Tank1.html

I am not a copyright nazi but one thing is "getting inspiration" from somebodies else work and another is just converting meshes.