Very Very Interisting! Ryzom models are free!

[titi]

Ryzom is a MMORPG game that is now set free with the GPLv3!

The interisting part for gest modders is that the data is also available with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike !!!
http://dev.ryzom.com/news/13

( update! here are the downloads: media: http://media.ryzom.com/     source: http://dev.ryzom.com/ )

Lets hope we can use them
some pictures:

[Gabbe]

Hope they aren`t THAT high poly

[titi]

uuuhhh its all in .max format  :'( :'(
Is there any chance to handle it with blender ?

But there are tons of great ground textures for tilesets!
for example:
http://media.ryzom.com/?query=tile&start=520

or look at this cool moon surface:
http://media.ryzom.com/?query=tile&start=820

fantastic grassy grounds:
http://media.ryzom.com/?query=tile&start=840

[Hectate]

Yea I played the open beta for Ryzom a while back. I was too surprised to see that the art assets have been released as well. Cool stuff!

[Gabbe]

No chance for max with blender i think, i looked it up once, i found nothing, not that am good finding stuff, but there is a trial for 3ds max so you can import the files the export them as obj or 3ds or wtever you want. the trial is fully sized 1 gb though...

EDIT: i can try to download the trial and export as many models as possible, but it`l take time...just in case your connection isn`t very fast.

[ElimiNator]

Yes you can import .max into blender. 

[Gabbe]

how?

[ElimiNator]

File/import/.3ds  You can't import .max though. 

[Gabbe]

like i said

[Gabbe]

fluff, can yuou by any chance...?

[Fluffy203]

Yea its possible , i still have to transfer my license and blah blah to my new computer

[Gabbe]

yey, this will be awesome

[-Archmage-]

No animations though.

[Hectate]

I found it interesting that the "world" data (the maps and everything) wasn't included. They didn't want homebrew servers running identical Ryzom servers. If you want to create your own MMORPG, go for it, but it won't be set in Ryzom

I am curious to see what projects crop up.

[@kukac@]

I've been thinking for a while about if the current Glest engine can handle something that high poly. The engine itself is quite outdated, which keeps modders advance to higher graphical terms.

[Gabbe]

kuk, we actually are looking for graphical coders