Here's a visualization of global winds and precipitations on September 1st, 2019 (when [Hurricane Dorian](https://tinyurl.com/y3jewqqt) was hovering over the Bahamas, off the coast of Florida).

* Created in Python (using Matplotlib, NetCDF4, Scipy and Numpy modules)
* Public wind and precipitation data from the [NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis](https://tinyurl.com/y6mfqr6f)
* Wind particles colored according to speed (using Matplotlib "inferno" colormap)
* Rain particles scattered according to the precipitation rate

The seamless-loop effect was achieved by periodically spawning the particles at their initial location on a time range greater than the animation, and subsampling this time range before export. This effect was further enhanced by fading each particle's color to black at their birth and death, and using the "Additive" opacity in Sketchfab material settings to hide black points.

*PS: for Python enthusiasts, I've uploaded a [script to preview point cloud animations locally](https://tinyurl.com/yhyuuqev) !*

A Windy Day

Low-poly (under 8k) pack of generic passenger vehicles.


Suitable for exterior landscape renderings and can be used in gamedev as props or in mobile games as player vehicle.

All cars are bearing minimum to none similarities to real life cars and completly  trademark clame proof.

Specs are:
sedan - 7122 tris.
wagon - 6982 tris.
hatchback - 6808 tris.
compact - 7257 tris.
coupe - 6022 tris.
minivan - 7450 tris.
sport - 6268 tris.
pickup - 6918 tris.
SUV - 7951 tris.
offroad - 6502 tris. 

Each car has 6 different colors texture, metallic, glossiness and opacity, also, they can be rendered without textures at all using only material color or vertex paint.



For the best picture, please, switch viewer to HD texture.

Generic passenger car pack

**CC-Attribution-NonCommercial**

Based on a scan of a replica of the "Mayflower" ship, processed by @spogna and available [here](https://skfb.ly/6u8T6).

Like in the [Mosquito in Amber](https://skfb.ly/6xWCO), most of my attention was spent on normal maps, roughness and refraction settings to try to make this model as realistic as possible.

I actually had to create a secondary internal surface for the bottle, and also relied on clear coat options for the glass material in order to try to give the model a feeling of thickness. 

To try to get the opacity right, I used refraction on the outer layer (normals offset checked), and alpha-blending on the inner one.

All of the modeling was done with Blender, but the critical part for the model aesthetics relies on Sketchfab materials and post-processing.

 
>
> Another ship in a bottle
> 
> Has got no place to sail
> 
> To see the waves getting darker every hour
> 
> The stars have lost their power
> 
> In the sky
> 

 
**Beck**, *Ship in a bottle*.

Ship in a bottle

Messing around with refractive materials!

![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/IGupCf4.jpg)

The [Mosquito scan](https://skfb.ly/6tFKT) (415k tris) is from [Geoffrey Marchal](https://sketchfab.com/geoffreymarchal).

**Modeling**:

* The scan was first remeshed with [mmgs](mmgtools.org) and baked to a lighter version (11k tris). 
* The amber fragment was roughly sculpted in blender ("I have no clue what I'm doing" style), keeping the main face flat (clay strips + flatten brushes).
* The small fragments inside the amber were done by splitting all the main fragment edges and applying the "shrink/fatten" tool, followed by a random Displace modifier. Exterior fragments were then removed with a boolean modifier.

**Material**:

The important parts are the roughness and normal maps, which are a mix of PBR textures (rougher edges, smoother main face), while the refractivity is just a product of tweaking Sketchfab settings: opacity set to refractive and using the object's roughness.

![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/T67c2w1.jpg)

Mosquito in amber

Assorted city props. Models are between 400 and 8000 triangles. Most models are PBR and include diffuse, occlusion roughness metallic, emissive, normal, (alpha/opacity if needed) maps.

Both sides of dumpster lid opens.  

## Make sure you also check out my new City Props Collection volume 2

Some models have multipule material options including the bus stop, benches, pallets, crates.

* Bus Stop
* ATM
* Dumpster
* USPS Mailbox
* Utility Box
* Street Light
* Trash Cans
* Fire Hydrant
* Benches
* Storm Drain
* Manhole Cover
* Pallet
* Tarp Covering Crates
* Parking Meter

Free to use for any project. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks for checking out my models and the likes. 
  
![](http://tampajoey.com/images/Sketchfab/Props2.jpg)

![https://sketchfab.com/TampaJoey](https://tampajoey.com/images/TU.jpg)
    
# Check out all my other models including this most recent model. 
![](http://tampajoey.com/images/Sketchfab/latest_model.jpg)

City Props Collection volume 1

Stylized environment set. This set includes two architectural elements, several rocks and a set of plants. All plants on one texture atlas. 

Features: 
2 PBR materials for rocks and architectural elements (metallic/roughness); 
Plants texture maps: Diffusion, Opacity, Normal, Ambient Occlusion; 
Texture maps size 2048*2048; 
UV mapping: Yes, overlapping; 
Vertex Point: Yes, plants vertex painted with a gradient from black to white. The bottom is black; 
Architectural elements: 278, 400 tris; 
Rocks: 248-284 tris; 
Group of plants: 5 – 46 tris. 

I hope you will enjoy my product! If you have questions about this model or you have a problem send me: 
Artstation: www.artstation.com/comeback 
Email: c3posw@mail.ru 
I believe this world is beautiful and all problems can be solved!

Ancient Ruins

Refraction is the phenomenon that makes light bend when passing through different transparent materials due to the velocity of light changing in different media. It makes objects behind the refractive material look distorted. Refraction is useful for simulating glass, gemstones, and many other transparent materials. Real-time refraction is available on all plans, including Basic - [learn how to use it on our Help Center](https://support.fab.com/s/article/Transparency-Opacity). 
 
*Original model ‘[Mosquito in amber](https://sketchfab.com/models/53a61d58c09b4d2ab30e269aa3e22078)‘ published by Loïc Norgeot
 under a Creative Commons Attribution license.*

Real-time Refraction Demo: Mosquito in Amber

Making progress on underwater scenes ( but still more to come :) ) !

[Original scan](https://skfb.ly/6suDz) from @ariosgeo, and inspiration from [Il Cristo degli Abissi](https://goo.gl/RU5PtJ), a submerged statue of Jesus in Italy.

**Modeling**:

* The scan was remeshed with [mmgs](http://mmgtools.org) from 500k verts to 7k, keeping the face and hands at a higher resolution.
* The ocean surface and ground were created with blender's ocean modifier.
* Light shafts are simply a randomized array of elongated planes.
* The fish is a lowpoly model ( a 30s model ).
* A particle system was created for fish instances, with force fields applied (boids physics, vortex, attraction force and collision on the statue)

**Texturing/lighting**:

* Mix of concrete and coral on the statue
* Sand on the ground
* Nothing on the sea surface
* Radial opacity for ground and surface
* Voronoi textures baked as emission on the statue and the ground, to simulate the light deformation through water
* Lots of color processing

Christ of the Abyss

Refraction is the phenomenon that makes light bend when passing through different transparent materials due to the velocity of light changing in different media. It makes objects behind the refractive material look distorted. Refraction is useful for simulating glass, water, gemstones, and many other transparent materials.

To see for yourself how refraction works, just rotate the model, paying attention to how the shell appears to distort beneath the egg white.

Learn how to use it in the [Help Center](https://help.sketchfab.com/hc/en-us/articles/202602073-Transparency-Opacity#refraction)!

![](https://imgur.com/WMZ46TK.png)

Original model ['S*t Happens'](https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/st-happens-9df0cb94b17a4221bd48ba9d8f225b11) published by [Loïc Norgeot](https://sketchfab.com/norgeotloic) under a CC Attribution license

Refraction Demo: S**t happens

It was one of those days. Everybody has left the office - except for you.

**3 Texture sets(2K):**

Room: Base color, roughness, normal

Set dress 1: Base color, roughness, normal, emission.

Set dress 2: Base color, roughness, normal, emission, opacity.

Made using Blender and Substance Painter.

Late Night Office

**Firefighter 3D model**
27K polygons
**PBR textured** (2K and 4K textures, BaseColor, Metalness, Roughness, Normal, Opacity, Emission)

Firefighter (free download)

Teaser of Oak & Pine forest grounds vol 2.0 texture/material package...

[https://skfb.ly/6OxXT](http://)

Full Package Contents:

6 nice tiled 4k texture pbr pack of ground materials from oak/pine atumn forest...

Additional file contains all maps with minimal compression + * sbsr files for Substance software packages...

baseColor, normal, ambientOcclusion, height, roughness, metallic, opacity, specularLevel

Oak & Pine forest grounds vol 2.0 Teaser

**Low Poly PBR Game-Ready Model of a Desk Set.**

**Technical Info:**

1. Textures: In the scene included 27 textures: Base Color (Diffuse), Normal Map, Ambient Occlusion, Glossiness (Inverted of Roughness), Metalness, Opacity. The resolutions of the textures are 4096x4096 and 2048x2048. File format: PNG.

2. Polygons Count: 15,064 Polys.

3. Original Messures: Width: 150 cm (59 ″), Depth: 126 cm (49 "), Height: 130 cm (51,2 ")

4. UV Mapped: Yes

5. Original Model Format: FBX

**Description:**
The Desk Set included: Table, Desk Chair, Lamp, Pictures and Books.

Desk Set

A few simple sketchfab editor changes for a challenge for fun, the focus was a fantasy feel around dusk, the main changes are;

* Static color background with opacity changes for the sea and sky. This is a simple trick makes a cohesive color composition
* Normal maps added for everything most strikingly the water to break up the flat colors and depth
* Use of refraction opacity, for the sea top has roughness added for depth. The sky has refraction calibrated make use of the assets in the scene to give an almost perlin finish of numerous colors depending on angle
* Clear coats and anisotropy to bounce around colors and add depth
* Orange lighting in the courtyard for a lived in feeling
* Emissions for extra color calibration
* SSAO, Sharpness, Vignette, Tonne mapping and color balance

Based on "[Sea Keep "Lonely Watcher"](https://sketchfab.com/models/09a15a0c14cb4accaf060a92bc70413d)" by [Artjoms Horosilovs](https://sketchfab.com/Artjoms_Horosilovs), licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. #SeaKeepChallenge

Fantasy Sea Keep

**Experimenting how to create an ice cube texture.**
It was pretty challenging to design this ice cube. The less material I used, the better. Also, by adjusting the opacity it gave it an ice cube effect.

Ice Cube Texture

Created for a game project. 
Lowpoly, game-ready environment

Basically aimed for an old, cheap, dirty atmosphere in an apartment with some chinese element, kind of like 90's Hong Kong 

*Window glass, water bottle and some other parts have opacity map on them, I am lazy to adjust them in sketchfab but they are there.*

See rendered scene in https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Vy9rRZ

An Old Cheap Room in Chinatown

Game ready asset.
Use base color map as opacity mask.
More info here:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3q9nYv

Railway tank

* ArtCraft CG school "3D Graphics for Games".
* 4 meshes: No opacity kit, With opacity kit, Buildings parts with opacity, Buildings parts without opacity.
* 2 materials: no opacity, with opacity.
* texel density about 500
* 4K textures
* Blockout: Maya
* Modeling: Blender
* UV: Rizom UV
* Baking: Marmoset
* Texturing: Photoshop, Substance

Japan Self-Defense Forces Military Base kit

As it appears to be a trend, a small WIP diorama ([Nice one here!](https://skfb.ly/6xvV6)) just to try out some lighting technique for an incoming model (not a WIP I hope).

The refractive "box" around the model is just eye-candy, what was really of interest to me was to get an idea about bubbles (spheres with an emissive material coupled with dithering transparency), sun rays (elongated planes with blending opacity and a light emission to them) and the ground lights (not done well here, but basically voronoi textures to simulate the effect of waves on the light, baked on the ground model).

The ground is a quick and ugly dyntopo sculpt done in blender, while the little fish are just a particle system set with a lowpoly mesh as render object.

A nice point to spend time on will be the ocean surface, to do with the appropriate modifier in blender, and a refractive/small-scale-roughness/foamy-at-the-edges material.

Plus, I should try to animate rays, bubbles and fish (as boids) to give it a living touch.

Abstract aquarium

Fully textured and rigged model of Jikin goldfish.

Jikin is a specific breed of goldfish originated in Japan.  Most distinct of their feature is the X-shaped caudal (tail) fins, thus also known as peacock tail goldfish.
They also have a standard for their body color of which 50% must be white and with red lips.

I went all out with texturing for this model to give the organic and transparant look that this breed of goldfish has.
I wanted to pull off the look of transparancy around the eyeballs only to find out I can only combine SSS texture with dither or mask opacity mode.   Static picture looks okay but I apologize for the flickering around the eyes during realtime animation.

* Sculpting, modeling, rigging, animation done in Blender
* Texturing done in Substance Painter

All C&C are welcome.  Hope you all enjoy it!

Jikin goldfish

This low-poly model will work well in Unreal or any game engine.  If you like it enough to download it or add it to your collection - then please tick the 'like' button.  It makes me feel appreciated and happy - and that way I make more models for free download!  Thank you. Andy

**For Unreal Engine select gltf at download.  Drag scene file into Unreal once unzipped and material will be created automatically. Set model scale to 10.  Set material blend mode to 'masked' and ensure base colour alpha channel is plugged into opacity mask)**

Model made in Zbrush, UVs added in RizomUV and textures and surface details added in Substance Painter.

I decided to see how low I could keep the vertices count whilst still achieving a lot of surface detail.  I painted surface details in Substance Painter - adding drop shadows to create the illusion of depth - let me know if you have any comments on this process and whether it is helpful for game assets.

Medieval Tavern (2k vertices) - free game asset

# Telecommunication Tower Low-Poly Free
* 6 Types of Telecommunication Tower 
* Can be Used as Game Asset
* Don't Forget to plug alpha channel to the Opacity and alpha Mask of Shader Editor
* Single TrimSheet is Used to Create this Model

# Thank You! 
# Like and Follow for more free Assets in future!

Telecommunication Tower Low-Poly Free

Mid-poly typewriter model based on 30s and 40s designs, mostly on Adler Favorit, Remington Portable model 5 and Olympia Simplex - end effect has some strong similiarity to last of them, mostly because of casing.
Version withouth branding, includes:
.obj
.mtl
Base color, roughness, metallic, normal (OpenGL) and opacity map

Inspired by: everlasting beauty of those pieces :D

1930s style typewriter - w/o branding

Female lowpoly character with optimized topology (**30K polygons**)
Including:
**Four 4K PBR texture sets**, Body, Hair; Clothing and Props (BaseColor, Metallic, Normal, Roughness, Opacity)
.fbx and .png files

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