Contribution ideas - more GAME samples!

svf · April 21, 2021, 2:56pm

Thaumaturge:

svf:

Having some art to draw from may help give a quality/consistency that helps to sell Panda, nice visuals are always good for 3d game engine demos. But not to go overboard, if the user needs a very modern GPU just to run a collision sample, then that may be overboard.

Hmm… We do have a few assets already available, I believe: not long ago there was a similar drive to this, and while it didn’t get very far, it did end up resulting in a few things, as I recall:

Wezu created some samples and assets.

I believe that they can be found here:
GitHub - wezu/p3d_samples: New samples for Panda3D

And I created my “Beginner’s Tutorial”–including a set of asset to go with it

Those assets should themselves be found here:
GitHub - ArsThaumaturgis/PandaSampleModels: Sample models, in both Blender-file form and Panda3D “.egg” form. Originally made for my “Panda3D Beginner’s Tutorial”.

Great info! I started to keep track of the samples we’ve built in this thread as well as the links that are coming up to useful resources for building samples. Here’s the latest update:

New samples created by the community here! (Updated as we build them):

Resources for helping folks create samples:

Models and textures for Panda by @wezu
Assets used in the Panda3D beginner’s tutorial by @Thaumaturge
A generic set of low-poly assets, animated characters, and meshes - not yet in Panda formats but Blender-friendly
Mixamo has a large set of professional animated characters that have been successfully used with Blender for many free/indie games

Great progress folks, let’s keep all the great ideas coming!