3D models library in Blender native format

Allan Brito · August 11, 2007

Finding models to use in our scenes created in Blender sometimes may be a bit difficult, since most 3D libraries use the 3ds file format. When we import these models in Blender, in most cases we have to work with triangular faces and some other artifacts. But now there is a very good model library called Scopia`s resources, which is a 3D models library with models available in the “.blend” file format, and with textures!

All models are organized into these categories:

Exteriors
Urban Furniture
Vegetation
Interior Furniture
Lamps
Bathrooms
Complements
Characters

Now there are about 50 models available to download, but according to the description on the site, new models will be uploaded every week. If you use Blender for architectural visualization, this is a very good resource. Visit the site here.

And there is one more thing; all files and models are under Creative Commons 3.0.

Author Allan Brito

16 responses

Dion Moult

12 August 2007 at 10:34

Excellent! Yet another repository to nourish a healthy blenderhead! *first comment*

Cortot

12 August 2007 at 10:35

Thanx for the tip!

ROUBAL

12 August 2007 at 11:35

Great source ! Thanks a lot for sharing !

Eon

12 August 2007 at 12:16

It’s great !

oyster

12 August 2007 at 12:17

Nice modles and thanx for sharing!

spamagnet

12 August 2007 at 14:29

Just a suggestion: You might want to mention the specific license, which is CC “BY” — http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ — a very liberal commercial-friendly license.

JohnJohn

12 August 2007 at 15:23

Nice… but strange… getting Yafray problems (latest builds)
Other models, they start rendering and then Yafray seems to go astray.
Also, the tree models are transparent… just getting the shadows (maybe images are missing)

Any ideas?

DaveC

12 August 2007 at 16:40

I have downloaded a building from the site and it has about 100 different materials! :o If I want to make it work with Indigo, it’s gonna be a lot of work. Great site and great idea too. Nicely done. Off to work I go.

kram1032

13 August 2007 at 00:12

Ah, there you have the building from^^

VERY nice site :D

Indigo should learn using tga s^^

sfepa

13 August 2007 at 09:21

thanx! nice site *in a dozen*

dalekbell

13 August 2007 at 13:46

Very nicely done. The furniture is great, and the collection is very coherent – apart from the random three low-poly game characters tagged on at the end of the list for some reason :-).

Thanks!

Moonman

13 August 2007 at 13:47

hmm strange…

I just downloaded 2 bathroom examples and my Blender (2.44) crashes when I try to render the scene.

Anyone else encounter this?

Jon

13 August 2007 at 17:51

“I just downloaded 2 bathroom examples and my Blender (2.44) crashes when I try to render the scene.”

Have you got YafRay installed?

Moonman

13 August 2007 at 19:54

That was it!

Thanks a lot. I never did check the preferred render for the file.

Dave H

22 October 2009 at 07:06

Hey Guys – I started a free, Blender 3d Model Library Website similar to Scopia’s, which is a very handy site. BlenderVault is a similar site, except it’s automated and has a user login system, so anyone can register and add their own models. Here’s the url if anyone is interested:

http://blendervault.opal.hulihanapplications.com