JME Ready 3D Models

General Discussion
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Hi Guys,
Yesterday I taught a class of 40 5th grade (~10 years old) children in elementary school the basics of 3D animation using JME’s sample models (Buggy, Ninja, Sinbad).
The teacher told me that it was great but that I should use for future lessons less warlike\violent characters. I think it’s a valid point so I ask you guys - Where can I find JME ready to use (j3o) models? free / paid.
I tried importing some blender models but most of them failed to import correctly. I guess there is a way to prepare a blender model before importing (xbuff?) But I didn’t have the time to learn about it yet.
Than you.

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Someday jMonkeyEngine will have its own asset store (like Unity) but “this is not that day”.

In addition to Sinbad and Ninja, the jme3-testdata library also includes Jaime, Elephant, Boat, Ferrari, Signpost, Teapot, and Tree, in case you weren’t aware.

I believe the most reliable asset pipeline currently is Blender3D exporting to .gltf followed by load into jMonkeyEngine (using jme3-plugins). You can skip the export step by downloading assets already in .gltf form, such as those in the Khronos sample models project at glTF-Sample-Models/2.0 at master · KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models · GitHub . These come with screenshot previews and a hodgepodge of licenses. Most of these have been tested recently with JMonkeyEngine.

For my own testing, I created a several humanoid models using MakeHuman. The asset pipeline described in the jMonkeyEngine Wiki is way out-of-date, but as I recall it wasn’t hard to get a MakeHuman model to J3O by way of Blender3D. Triangle counts were a bit high, however, and the results were not animated. Models I created this way include:

If you’ve got money to gamble with, I think your best bet would again be assets already in .gltf format. For instance, there are a bunch of them at CGTrader: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/ext/gltf/glb

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Thank you Stephen. Can JME load a “.gltf” format the same as it loads j3o or do I need to convert it? And what is the best way to convert? Simply importing it to the IDE?

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Yep. You can browse the animation names and stuff using the hierarchy browser.

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https://sketchfab.com has a bunch of models already in gltf format… many of them free to download.

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You can take a look at my collections of downloadable models on Sketchfab, they are categorized into weapons, characters, props and many more.

https://sketchfab.com/Ali-RS/collections

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