Free resources
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There is much content on the web, which is free for personal use. This page rather lists development-relevant content in the public domain or licensed under free licenses.
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Mixed content
| Page name/link | 3D | 2D | Sound | Music | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenGameArt.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Repository for freely-licensed game related artworks | Yes | Yes | GPL, LGPL, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, PD |
| Free Game Arts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Game-related art files | No | No | CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL |
| WikiWorlds | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Media for creation of virtual worlds | No | Yes | CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL |
Specialized content
2D graphics
Photos and references
| Page name/link | For textures1 | Size2 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Cloward's Texture Archive | Yes | 399 | Small amount of non-photographic textures available too | No | No | PD[1] |
| BurningWell.org | Yes | 2772 | High-res, relatively texture-friendly | Yes | Yes | PD |
| European Archive | Yes | Public Domain content. Videos/Music. Historical video material can be very effective when used well. You might consider giving music, especially out of fashion genres/Classical noticeable credit to help genres | Yes | Yes | PD | |
| Flickr | No | 11500000 | Mostly unfree, here and here are the free ones | Yes | Yes | CC-BY, CC-BY-SA |
| Gürkans' photo/reference pack | Yes | 1900 | Mostly Europe | No | Yes[2] | AL and/or GPL 2+, CC-BY-SA 3+ and/or GPL 2+[3] |
| Martin's GPLed Reference Pictures | No | 783 | Reference images | No | No | GPLv2 |
| Sindwiller's Bulgaria pack5 | Yes | 261 | Reference images and some inspirational images | No | No | GPLv23/CC-by-SA4 |
| Sindwiller's Picasa Pics | Yes | 23 | Various stuff | No | No | PD |
| Wikimedia Commons | Yes | Yes | Wikimedia's media library | Yes | Yes | CC-BY, CC-BB-SA, GFDL, GPL, PD |
1Photos are extraordinary useful for creating textures 2Approximate number of freely licensed photos 3Or higher 43.0 5Alternative mirror with browsing here
Vector graphics
| Page name/link | Size1 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Project | 1300 | KDE icons | Yes | Yes | LGPL |
| Open Clip Art Library | 12000 | Vector clip art | Yes | Yes | PD |
1Approximate number of freely licensed graphics
Also check out this list of mostly freely licensed icon sets.
Audio
Music
| Page name/link | File formats | Size1 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Music Archive | mp3 | Various music (filter license in search) | Yes | Yes | Various | |
| incompetech.com Royality Free Music | mp3 | Music by Kevin MacLeod | Yes | No | CC-BY 3.0 | |
| Jamendo | mp3, vorbis | 1200 | Various licenses, here is the freely licensed music | Yes | Yes | CC-BY, CC-BY-SA |
| Musopen | mp3 | Classical music recordings, mixed quality | Yes | Yes | PD | |
| Open Music Archive | mp3 | 29 | Expired copyright recordings | Yes | No | PD |
| opsound | mp3 | Yes | Yes | CC-BY-SA, PD | ||
| Altermusique.org | flac, mp3, ogg | A French-language music site, here is an auto-translation | Yes | Yes | CC-BY-SA | |
| Netlabels section from archive.org | flac, mp3, ogg | Many netlabels use archive.org to store their album files | Yes | Yes | Any, from proprietary to public domain | |
| Netlabels list by erreur404 | flac, mp3, ogg | Some very good shit inside but much digging required | Yes | Yes | Mostly unprecise but some are freely licensed |
1Approximate number of freely licensed tracks (albums on Jamendo)
Sound
| Page name/link | File formats | Size1 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freepats | .pat | Instrument patches for software synthesizers | Yes | Yes | GFDL, GPL, LGPL, PD | |
| OLPC Sound Samples | .wav | 6549 | Instrument and music samples, sound effects | Yes | No | CC-BY 3.0 |
| public domain sounds | .flac, .ogg | 527 | Sounds mostly in mp3 format | Yes | Yes | PD |
| CCMixter | .* | ? | Mainly MP3s | Yes | Yes | CC-* |
| INDEPENDENT LJUDBANK (¡ dead link !) | .mp3 | 626 | Sounds for films | Unknown | No | PD[4] |
1Approximate number of freely licensed sounds
Voice
| Page name/link | Lossless1 | Size2 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LibriVox | No | Literature reading recordings | Yes | Yes | PD |
1Music is available in a lossless file format 2Approximate number of freely licensed voice recordings
Font
| Page name/link | Size1 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Font Space | 850* | Fonts with several licenses, both free and non-free | Yes | Yes | PD, OFL, GPL, BY, BY-SA, Apache |
| Free Font Manifesto | 5 | Selected free fonts | No | Yes | PD |
| Open Font Library | 72 | Font library | Yes | Yes | OFL, PD |
1Approximate number of freely licensed fonts
Maps, materials, models, textures
| Page name/link | Maps | Materials | Models | Textures | Size1 | Details | Active | User can contribute | Licenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon repository | No | No | Yes | Yes | Lots of old models | No | No | PD | |
| Blender 3d models | No | No | Yes | No | 50 | Various objects and buildings | Yes | No | CC-BY |
| Blender for Architecture | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 436 | Interior design and architecture, partly noncommercial | Yes | Yes | CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, GPL |
| Blender Open Material Repository | No | No | Yes | No | 540 | Blender format materials repository | Yes | Yes | PD[5] |
| Blender Open Model Repository | Yes | No | No | No | 463 | Blender models | No | No | CC-BY3 |
| Blender 3D Open Source Texture Gallery | No | No | No | Yes | 309 | Textures | Yes | Yes | CC-BY 2.0 |
| Free 3D objects | No | No | Yes | No | 51 | Models Cinema 4D, POV-Ray, OBJ formats | Yes | No | CC-BY 3.0 |
| Free the models | No | No | Yes | No | 650 | Low-poly models | Yes | No | PD |
| Image*After (GPL section) | No | No | No | Yes | 10511 | Hight quality reference images and raw textures | Yes | No | GPLv2+ |
| MD2 game models | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 31 | Game models and levels | No | No | CC-BY and GPL |
| Low Poly Cooperative | No | No | Yes | No | 5 (sets) | Packages with consistent style/topic, single pieces in forum | Yes | Yes | CC-BY 3.0 |
| Lunaran, Unplugged | Yes | No | No | No | 5 | Quake maps | No | No | GPL 3.0 |
| Quadropolis | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 1500+ | Cube/Sauerbraten models/maps | Yes | Yes | Varies |
| Scopia's resources | No | No | Yes | No | 74 | Mostly interior design | No | No | CC-BY 3.0 |
| The Blender texture disc | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | PD | ||
| TRaK | Yes | No | No | Yes | 4 (sets) | FPS maps (mostly non-free) and texture sets (mostly free) | Yes | No | GPL, CC-BY-SA |
| Zero Credibility Custom Levels | Yes | No | No | No | 18 | Quake maps | No | No | GPL 2.0 |
1Approximate number of freely licensed items
Other
Motion capture data
- mocapdata.com
- Various formats, CC-BY-SA 2.1 JP
References
- ↑ Email: They are completely free with no usage restrictions at all. I think I'd probably frown on someone grabbing them all and then putting together a texture CD and selling them - but I'm not doing anything to stop someone from doing that.
- ↑ Send an email to gurkan@linuks.mine.nu, if you want to contribute
- ↑ Gürkans' photo/reference pack README file
- ↑ Free-for-everything use conditions, see theINDEPENDENT LJUDBANK translation
- ↑ FAQ about license for the Blender Open Material Repository
