Prior to February 2011, TurboSquid allowed artists to submit individual 3D models to our Game-Ready Certification program. 3D models that met the specification received a Game-Ready badge. Although we have discontinued this program, 3D models that passed prior to February 2011 still carry this badge.

Game-Ready badge

Game-Ready Specification

To become certified as Game-Ready, the model has met the following standard:

Geometry

• All modifications collapsed
• All transformations reset
• All vertices welded
• Low polygon count- must be below or near values in Recommendations section below
• No lights or extraneous geometry
• Only triangular polygons or quads

Shading

• Image maps must in .bmp, .dds, .tga, .tif, or .jpg format (.jpg allowed, but not recommended)
• Image map dimensions must be powers of two (i.e. 256, 1024, 2048)
• No texture maps referenced from file except for the ones the character uses
• Only default materials
• Only diffuse, opacity, specular, bump, reflection, and normal maps
• Only images maps, no procedural textures
• UV mapped
• Texture map naming is descriptive but short "mychar_head_256.tga" and contains no spaces
• Widest dimension maximum is 2048 pixels

File Format

• File format must be .3ds, .gmax, .ma, .mb, .max, .xsi, .obj, .lwo, .dxf, or game specific format

Recommendations

Geometry

• Minimize concave polygons (unless required for object shape)
• Minimize double-sided polygons (unless specifically required for object)
• No holes
• No coplanar faces / No intersecting polygons
• Only two polygons per edge
• Pivots at origin
• Scaled close to default proportions
• Unified normals
• Recommended polycounts:
  • Characters < 5,000 polygons
  • Vehicles: 3-6,000 polygons
  • Weapons: 1-2,000 polygons
  • Static Objects: up to 3,000 polygons- (i.e. basic props, lamps, desks, chairs, buildings, shapes)

Shading

• Single, unified image map per object