New on CGTrader: 3D Model Collections

As I commented yesterday in the YouTube video, this is an awesome and long time wanted feature. But there is one thing I would change at the moment: in the already published Collection's page, I'd prefer having the "Contents" tab's info anywhere else, not hiding the product's description by default. Maybe in the sidebar, before the "Available formats" section. Even embedded in the description box. I think that having the description below the preview images like in every other product is key. Anyway, great work.

As a buyer I can tell that if a collection doesn't come with a good discount it is rarely worth the price. I can see sellers now using this new feature and the collections cost a lot of money. If the sellers were giving a group of models at a 40% or 50% discount then paying the higher price for all of them would be worth it, otherwise I would just buy the most important ones to me and that's it. Or I might end up buying all the models in a longer period of time instead of paying for all of them at once if there is no discount.

The best and most wanted feature by artists. Thanks.

I also like possibility of text formatting in collection description. This would be nice also in single models description.

first, thanks for this feature.
Am i missing something, but i don't seem to find new collection i have made in analytics view...
also, if i look at my models scores - collection has way smaller score then average of other models, and description keywords etc. seem to be similar to what all models included in collection have...

Great and very clever feature congratulations !!

thanks for the info.

It’s a great tool but shouldn't it be the client using that tool in some form?

For example in my case I have a bunch of alien plants and my experience is that clients usually buy multiple of them but never in same order, they for example take type 1, 2, 3 and 4, but not take 5 and 6, then someone ells comes along and takes 2, 4 and 5 but not 1, 3 and 6, etc.

This makes it hard for me to predict what should go in a collection.

It reminds me to the successes of Napster and MP3 in the old day’s, people could instantly create own CD with just the tracks on them they liked, people had always silently hated it that a CD usually had multiple tracks on them they did not like but jet needed to pay for them.

Maybe something that clients could do on the spot and get 5% tot 10% on the total amount would work even better?

@iterateCGI, i don't think it's a good idea to let customers make their own collections unrestricted. That could be easily exploited, like for example one can take my $200 model, add to it another $2 model, which he probably don't need at all and get $10-20 discount from that deal. That would be plain cheating. I think better idea would be customizable collections. So you'd put all your alien plants into single collection and customer may tweak this collection by removing items that he don't need and then checkout with his customized collection. Overall discount on such collection would depend on how many items customer has left out. I think that would be pretty unique feature amongst 3d stock markets, that would set cgtrader appart.

I'm creating collection of models "chair 1, chair 2, chair 3, chair 4" so i have collection with 4 chairs.
It will be great if customer view for example model "chair 3" and there will be somewhere link to collections where this chair is. So the customer can easy choose buy single model or all collection. I hope my idea is clear.

good to know! thank you CGtrader!

What I am maybe also missing is some highlighted info for customers how much they will save up.
Although I write it in collection description there could be some official info.

The 3D Collection is a great feature, but I'm having problems with it already. Because I upload all my 3D Models as multiple formats with textures and materials, a .zip file is the obvious packing solution. Yet, this new 3D Collection mode does not seem to allow collections of .zip files to be put in it - I get the same warning "Existing collections cannot be included as part of a collection". That suggest that if I want to create a collection on the site, I have to re-upload everything in a different format. That being the case, I might just as well put each plane in a Folder on my computer, then compress them into a .zip file, thus creating my OWN collections. Is it just me, or does that seem to be totally missing the point of the exercise?...Mark

Trouble making collection after selecting models tieing up part goes into endless wait after couple of hours gave up in my case making collection of 3 cars.

Publishing button creates draft without publishing and editing draft does not contain publishing so this problem needs to be sorted asap

Hi MotoS, zabotlama,

We're looking into this as we speak. A fix is coming soon.

Thanks,
Zilvinas

Question to CGT team: would it be possible to transfer previously manually created collections to the new format, while keeping place in search results and purchase history of former and gaining all the benefits of latter?

Question to CGT team: is it possible to add or remove product from already created collection? I can't find such option.

An idea: how about if system would calculate publishing score for collection, basing on average of its constituent products? Let's say if collection consists of 3 items, that has scores of 7, 7 and 8, then collection's score would be 7.3 Afterall, collection is just a proxy item, it might not be very fair to calculate its score on the same criteria as standalone product.

Hi Žilvinas,
I still think that something is not right with how collections' score is calculated. Yesterday i published collection, which consists of products with 8.0-8.2 score and although it has comparable amount of preview images, description words, tags and file formats to each of its constituent product, but it got only 6.6 overal score. How that could be? I looked at the analythic and found that 6.5ish score for single model is granted for a much worse presentation - less pictures, tags, formats, worse description and everything.

I hope you will investigate and fix the problem.

One more thing.
In the collection there is list of models, where in small pop-up window you can see model if you press on it, but if model have square images, can't see all image.
Please fix it.

After making a bunch of collections here some thoughts:

- Cool, we have a link now, directing single products to it's collection parent. Even better would be a thumbnail of that collection, and a price. Customers can directly judge feasability that way.
- On Collection Pages, the link list has useless info in my opinion. A Thumbnail (again), Price and Fileformats is all I want to see
- At related products of a single product, if it's part of a collection, that collection should appear first.
- Overall, we need more customizing options: add/remove products from a collection, upgrade existing collections to the new template. All this has been said above, just want to press on. :)

Thanks for looking into it, CGT.