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@reneweller-coding reneweller-coding released this 29 Aug 00:12
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Superseded by 3D Model Pack v3 — same ships and stations, 21 new object models for v1.15.0's real-object scenes. Take v3.

The 3D models the geom="mesh" scenes load. Not part of the program: 157
models come to about two gigabytes, so they live here rather than in the
installer, the portable zip or the repository. The program builds and runs
perfectly without them.

Supersedes 3D Model Pack v1,
which holds an older, lower-quality build of a smaller set. Take this one.

Install

  1. Download whichever packs you want.
  2. Unpack the .glb files straight into the program's Models folder.
  3. Restart.

Any subset works. Each pack enables exactly the scenes that use it, and the
startup log says how many are still missing.

Pack Models Size Contains
KaleidoscopeModels-ships.zip 79 715 MB capital ships, freighters, couriers, drones — fly-bys, docking approaches, atmospheric entries, formations, holograms
KaleidoscopeModels-stations.zip 30 259 MB space stations — the six station families
KaleidoscopeModels-objects.zip 48 384 MB everything else: museum sculptures, hi-fi gear, sea creatures, eroded rock, gongs and bells, polished forms, pierced lattices

What changed since v1

  • Every model rebuilt at higher quality, and 22 now carry a real normal map.
  • 49 new models, most of them generated FOR a particular scene family
    rather than found and fitted afterwards. The resonant bodies are thin-walled
    because the vibration family displaces along a plate's thickness; the pierced
    lattices exist because a shadow play wants a complicated shadow.
  • The third pack is renamed from earthbound, which stopped describing it once
    it held eroded rock, gongs and polished abstract forms.

Needs v1.8.0 or newer — earlier releases have fewer of the scenes that use
these, and v1.6.1 and older have none at all.