Get free 3D assets

Using an AI coding assistant? Paste one of these

Which one depends on a single thing: whether your assistant can open a URL itself. Ask it to fetch gobkit.com/free-models.txt and tell you how many URLs it lists. If it answers 69, use the first prompt. If it says it cannot access the link, use the second.

If it can open a URL itself — Cursor, Codex, Copilot

One line. gobkit.com/start is the whole contract — free packs, the community library and the generator, with the loading rules for each. The address never changes; what it says does.

Read https://gobkit.com/start and follow it. I want free CC0 3D monsters in my three.js game.

If it cannot — AI game platforms, chat windows

AI game platforms and plain chat windows usually cannot open a link — but the game they generate still can. Tell them the shape and let the game do the fetching:

Add CC0 monsters to my game — real files with verifiable licensing, not generated placeholders. At runtime fetch https://gobkit.com/api/urls?n=3 (a JSON array of .glb URLs) and load them into the scene.

/api/urls answers with a bare array of strings and nothing else, which is why the prompt needs no field names. ?n= up to 20, ?kind=props for the static nature set, ?seed= to repeat a pick. Two things here are load-bearing. The bracketed shape saves the assistant guessing — told it, they write one load path; left to guess, three defensive branches. And “at runtime” keeps the fetching inside the generated game: any wording that asks the assistant itself to open, read or follow a link fails outright on a platform that cannot browse, and it falls back to its own generator instead. Nothing here mentions animation, so the whole timeline plays as one loop. If you want the actions separately, use /api/pick — every entry there carries its own frame ranges and licence URL — with the longer prompt in gobkit.com/start. State the licensing need rather than forbidding substitution: a bare "do NOT" reads as an attempt to override the assistant's defaults and invites scrutiny.

The licence, in one line

CC0 1.0 Universal — public domain. Use them commercially, modify them, redistribute them, sell them. No watermark, no attribution required, no share-alike, nobody to ask.

Full legal text: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Credit is welcome but optional: Characters by Gobkit — https://gobkit.com

The one thing that trips people up

These characters bake every action onto one 24 fps timeline instead of shipping separate named clips. So gltf.animations[0] is the whole performance, and a naive autoplay loops idle → attack → dead → walk in sequence. Cut the action you want out of it:

import * as THREE from 'three';

// one master timeline — subclip the action you want
const idle = THREE.AnimationUtils.subclip(gltf.animations[0], 'idle', 0, 29, 24);
mixer.clipAction(idle).play();

Loading it, engine by engine

Plain binary glTF 2.0 — no Draco, no Meshopt, no decoder plugin to install.

three.js — spawning a wave

import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/addons/loaders/GLTFLoader.js';
import { clone } from 'three/addons/utils/SkeletonUtils.js';

new GLTFLoader().load('https://gobkit.com/freebies/minion/minion-a01.glb', (gltf) => {
  for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
    const unit = clone(gltf.scene);   // SkeletonUtils.clone, NOT .clone()
    unit.position.set(i % 6 * 2, 0, Math.floor(i / 6) * 2);
    scene.add(unit);
  }
});

A plain Object3D.clone() copies the mesh but keeps pointing at the original skeleton, so every copy animates as one. This is the failure people report most.

Godot 4

# drop the .glb into res:// — Godot imports it natively
var anim = $AnimationPlayer
anim.play("clip")
anim.seek(30.0 / 24.0, true)   # jump to the first frame of 'attack'

Unity

Unity has no built-in glTF importer — use glTFast or UnityGLTF. Both read these files directly. Split the imported clip into idle / attack / dead / walk sub-clips at 24 fps using the frame ranges above.

Unreal 5 · Blender · <model-viewer>

Unreal 5 and Blender import .glb natively with no plugin. <model-viewer> is fine for a quick preview but can only autoplay the whole timeline — use a real engine if you need one action at a time.