From b701e8123811cfadbae5bcbfc938775751c35290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: onefreeman1337 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 23:02:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add CSAF PSX Characters Sampler to catalog/characters Self-submission by the publisher, at needs-review. AI-generated content, tagged. --- README.md | 8 ++-- catalog/README.md | 2 +- catalog/characters/README.md | 1 + .../characters/csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ docs/ai-assets.md | 1 + site/config.json | 2 +- 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 catalog/characters/csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8f7af63..1efda89 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ **Free assets and tools for commercial games, with every licence read at its source.** -[**Browse 420 sources**](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) · [Starter stacks](#starter-stacks) · [Choose by job](#start-here) · [Licences](#licences) · [Contribute](#contributing) +[**Browse 421 sources**](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) · [Starter stacks](#starter-stacks) · [Choose by job](#start-here) · [Licences](#licences) · [Contribute](#contributing) [![Website](https://img.shields.io/website?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftmhsdigital.github.io%2FFree-Game-Dev-Assets%2F&up_message=live&down_message=down&label=website)](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) [![Pages](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/TMHSDigital/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/pages.yml?label=pages)](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/actions/workflows/pages.yml) -[![Sources](https://img.shields.io/badge/sources-420-informational)](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) +[![Sources](https://img.shields.io/badge/sources-421-informational)](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) [![License: CC0-1.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-CC0--1.0-lightgrey.svg)](LICENSE)
[![GitHub stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/TMHSDigital/Free-Game-Dev-Assets)](https://github.com/TMHSDigital/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/stargazers) @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ is a page on the site. ## Browse the catalog -The [website](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) searches all 420 entries +The [website](https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/) searches all 421 entries and filters them by category, licence, format, engine, commercial use, attribution, review status, 2D camera view and how recently the licence was read, sorted as you choose. Press `/` to search, and keep the sources you are weighing on a shortlist. Filtered views and individual entries have their own URLs, so you can send @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ someone exactly what you are looking at. | **Tools** | 122 | Editors, pipeline, TTS, Godot add-ons | [`catalog/tools/`](catalog/tools/) | | **2D** | 60 | Sprites, tilesets, UI and HUD, icons, palettes | [`catalog/2d/`](catalog/2d/) | | **Audio** | 37 | SFX, music, foley, impulse responses | [`catalog/audio/`](catalog/audio/) | -| **Characters** | 30 | Rigged packs, generators, modular humanoids | [`catalog/characters/`](catalog/characters/) | +| **Characters** | 31 | Rigged packs, generators, modular humanoids | [`catalog/characters/`](catalog/characters/) | | **Fonts** | 25 | OFL and commercial-ok typefaces, CJK | [`catalog/fonts/`](catalog/fonts/) | | **Environment** | 20 | HDRI, terrain DEMs, geodata | [`catalog/environment/`](catalog/environment/) | | **Shaders & VFX** | 18 | Shaders, particle and FX resources | [`catalog/shaders-vfx/`](catalog/shaders-vfx/) | diff --git a/catalog/README.md b/catalog/README.md index bc3fd50..2234742 100644 --- a/catalog/README.md +++ b/catalog/README.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ One markdown file per source under a category folder. To add one, run `npm run n | Tools | 122 | [`tools/`](tools/) | Editors, pipeline, TTS, Godot add-ons | | 2D | 60 | [`2d/`](2d/) | Sprites, UI, icons, palettes | | Audio | 37 | [`audio/`](audio/) | SFX, music, foley, IRs | -| Characters | 30 | [`characters/`](characters/) | Generators & modular humanoids | +| Characters | 31 | [`characters/`](characters/) | Generators & modular humanoids | | Fonts | 25 | [`fonts/`](fonts/) | OFL / commercial-ok type | | Environment | 20 | [`environment/`](environment/) | HDRI, terrain, geodata | | Shaders & VFX | 18 | [`shaders-vfx/`](shaders-vfx/) | Shaders, particle textures, FX | diff --git a/catalog/characters/README.md b/catalog/characters/README.md index 4fcdf55..fff2a29 100644 --- a/catalog/characters/README.md +++ b/catalog/characters/README.md @@ -64,5 +64,6 @@ Rocketbox, whose MIT licence requires the copyright notice to ship with your bui | [kenney-animated-characters](kenney-animated-characters.md) | Kenney Animated Characters | CC0 | yes | active | | [paragon-characters](paragon-characters.md) | Paragon Characters (Epic, on Fab) | custom | yes | needs-review | | [metahuman](metahuman.md) | MetaHuman | custom | yes | needs-review | +| [csaf-psx-characters-sampler](csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md) | CSAF PSX Characters Sampler | custom | yes | needs-review | \* MPFB/MakeHuman: **core exports/assets CC0**; app/addon code AGPL/GPL. Avoid **MB-Lab** and CharMorph **`mb_*`** AGPL bases — [`docs/high-risk.md`](../../docs/high-risk.md). diff --git a/catalog/characters/csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md b/catalog/characters/csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9373b72 --- /dev/null +++ b/catalog/characters/csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +id: csaf-psx-characters-sampler +name: CSAF PSX Characters Sampler +url: https://csaf.itch.io/psx-characters-sampler +publisher: Core Systems Asset Factory +category: characters +subcategories: [rigged, animated] +license: custom +commercial: true +attribution_required: false +formats: [GLB, FBX, OBJ, Blend, PNG, gdshader] +tags: [low-poly, psx, horror, fantasy, ai-generated] +added: 2026-11-14 +verified: 2026-11-14 +status: needs-review +limits: "The models may not be resold or redistributed as assets" +--- + +# CSAF PSX Characters Sampler + +17 free low poly PS1 style 3D characters from the studio Core Systems Asset Factory (CSAF), one taken from each of its paid PSX character packs, from a knight and a plague doctor to a patrol officer and a shambler. The page lists 52 skins across the 17, about 1,500 triangles per character, 256 px PNG textures and one shared humanoid skeleton with 45 animation clips and a T pose, delivered as GLB, FBX, OBJ and the Blender source, with a PSX shader for Godot 4. The page says the bodies are built in code and the textures painted by AI image models over the models' own renders; the skeleton and clips are the CC0 Quaternius Universal Animation Library and the bodies come from MakeHuman. + +## Notes + +- Self-submission: listed by the publisher +- Made with AI: the page states it in its own words (quoted in Evidence), and the itch.io AI disclosure on the page reads "AI Assisted, Code, Graphics" +- Engines: the page says the GLB files were tested in a blank Godot 4.7.2 project under Forward+, Compatibility and Mobile, and that Unity 6 and Unreal 5 "were not run here" +- This entry covers the free sampler only. The publisher sells the full casts as paid packs and as one paid PSX Character Library on the same itch.io account; those are not covered here +- Review: a maintainer reading of the publisher's own terms (commercial use, no credit, no resale or redistribution of the models as assets) on the live page. + +## Evidence + +- Live page (2026-11-14): "Use the models in any number of commercial or non-commercial games, no attribution required, and modify them freely." +- Same page (2026-11-14): "Do not resell or redistribute the models themselves as assets." +- Same page (2026-11-14): "Made with AI tools: the bodies are built in code and their textures painted by AI image models over their own renders" +- Same page (2026-11-14): "The skeleton and clips are the CC0 Quaternius Universal Animation Library; the bodies come from MakeHuman (CC0 output)." + +## Related + +- [makehuman](makehuman.md) +- [mpfb](mpfb.md) +- [quaternius-universal-base-characters](quaternius-universal-base-characters.md) +- [barnabe-wild-lowpoly-rigged](barnabe-wild-lowpoly-rigged.md) diff --git a/docs/ai-assets.md b/docs/ai-assets.md index 8b0647a..26af7ce 100644 --- a/docs/ai-assets.md +++ b/docs/ai-assets.md @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ the same set. - [BitNuker Fantasy Environments Sampler](../catalog/2d/bitnuker-fantasy-environments-sampler.md) - [BitNuker Workshop Sampler](../catalog/2d/bitnuker-workshop-sampler.md) - [BudgetPixel Sound Effects](../catalog/audio/budgetpixel-sfx.md) +- [CSAF PSX Characters Sampler](../catalog/characters/csaf-psx-characters-sampler.md) - [SFXMint](../catalog/audio/sfxmint.md) - [Soundza](../catalog/audio/soundza.md) diff --git a/site/config.json b/site/config.json index dc7068a..7de3b90 100644 --- a/site/config.json +++ b/site/config.json @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ "baseUrl": "/Free-Game-Dev-Assets", "siteUrl": "https://tmhsdigital.github.io/Free-Game-Dev-Assets/" }, - "expectedEntryCount": 423, + "expectedEntryCount": 424, "linkCheck": { "_comment": "Hosts that refuse scripted requests whatever the source's health (403/429 every week in the link report, #77). check-links lists their entries under 'Checked by hand' with the entry's verified date instead of 'Refused'. Remove a host when it starts answering.", "manualHosts": {