QUESTIONS about the Cubicity Asset Library

[Kent Trammell]

@koala I apologize – I’m very behind with the update to the Cubicity asset library. Since I haven’t seen many submissions, I kept delaying an update until I had a handful to assimilate. At this point I have a enough waiting to be graded and assimilated to warrant an update. I will do it as soon as I get a moment!

PS: I look very forward to seeing your submission!

[Antonio Vazquez]

I set the asset library and I can drag and drop assets and materials into my meshes, but the dropped material is always black. For example, I drop a cubicity_tree-leaves material into a sphere, but the sphere never is green. What I’m doing wrong? I’m using Blender 3.6 with Eevee and AO enabled.

[Omar Domenech]

It probably has to do with the material node tree. I believe the material uses attributes very dependent on the name in the node matching the name in the color attribute. So in your case since the names aren’t matching it is returning a black result. So go into the material, search for the node with the attribute name and copy paste that name into the slot in the color attribute.

[Naiyah Osipitan]

Do these assets work in cycles?

[Naiyah Osipitan]

How do I turn on the lights inside the buildings?

[Omar Domenech]

Yes, they should work in cycles.

To turn on the lights, you have to select a building that has the emission material and in the shader node change the value for the emission socket.

[Naiyah Osipitan]

When I download the file, the categories do not show up

But I know exactly how to fix it. You have to include “TXT” File in the zip file. This file contains the category set up.

And then it should be fixed.

[mak mcman]

I am trying to bounce the assets for the roads as glb so I can import to a three js project, this doesnt seam to carry any colours or textures over. I have spent some time trying to resolve, any ideas?

[Omar Domenech]

I have no experience with exporting or importing with those files, but it is possible that vertex colors just don’t go along with the ride. There’s always baking everything into image textures and plugging them though, it’s practically universal.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Yeah, like Omar said, unwrap the UV.s and bake the materials onto textures is the way to export and import models into other programs.

[lunahak]

How can I export this assets to Unity?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi @lunahak ,

These models are made for Blender, using a lot of Blender-specific ‘tricks’ (most notably Geometry Nodes). They cannot directly be Exported, they will have to be heavily ‘adapted’, aside from the Unwrapping and Baking the Materials and this is not something that I can explain in a thread like this.

It’s probably better to find assets elsewhere, or (and this is really fun!) learn how to make your own (Export-friendly) models.

[Omar Domenech]

Maybe the Treads course will shed a little bit of light to the process? 

https://cgcookie.com/courses/tread-hard-surface-asset-creation-for-video-games

[Trent Pecker]

Here’s my submission! I submitted it on Jan 5th, and mediafire only allows 14 days of hosting for free. So On january 19th, it’s going to self destruct.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1ckje13ur1fndzj/cubitity_asset-contribution_Trent.zip/file

Looking forward to seeing the updated asset library

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