topic Re: Library with people/kids in Libraries & objects

Library with people/kids

Mats Knutsson — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:48:25 GMT

Your recommendation of libraries with low/decent poly people/kids for free or to buy? We need to update for our interior and school designers. Anyone have a good lib to recommend? Archicad only...

Operating system used: Windows

Re: Library with people/kids

CosminF — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:12:31 GMT

Hi,

Would these be enough for what you are looking for?
https://bimcomponents.com/Search/people

Hope this helps.

Re: Library with people/kids

Mats Knutsson — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:09:37 GMT

I've got these already. Need mor kids fpr school interiors.

Re: Library with people/kids

CosminF — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:19:14 GMT

I know it is not what you originally requested but there are some viable workarounds:

1. Try to search on 3D warehouse. For example these ones: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/56ea1e58-2e53-4e3f-ae9e-f80e2586a405/Kids
You can import them as collada files and save them as .gsm afterwards. The polygon count might not be ideal but it may be a viable workaround.

2. You can also browse specialty sites for this and see if there is something that you might consider buying and then include them as collada in archicad.

Re: Library with people/kids

furtonb — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:09:19 GMT

I recommend the Studio Esinam CAD library (also really cool cutouts apart from the CAD stuff):

https://studioesinam.com/pages/2d-cad-library-2

they ship an LCF and the DWGs too.

dimensions.com is another go-to source for me for drawings:

https://www.dimensions.com/collection/children-kids

For 3D, renderpeople has some really nice posed assets (although I generally don't work with higher poly assets in AC due to limitations in UV editing and high polygon count handling): https://renderpeople.com/3d-people/?_age=04-12%2C13-18

For closer people, either use AI to swap faces or use cutouts, imo.

Another option is to use generators (a cost efficient solution would be this plugin for Blender):

https://blendermarket.com/products/humgen3d

As quality is mediocre-ish, you might want to go for the AI face swap-enhancement route or use a more blurry archviz style. But then you will face another limitation of AC: the joke of not providing render passes (...has this changed? anyway...).

(FYI I would save myself the trouble and keep the spaces-surfaces organised in AC, only have lightweight placeholders for mobile furniture, and populate the scene with quality models in another software that is capable of handling decent assets.)