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Carved Chess King 3D model
A chess king whose fine carved detail comes from a normal map on a light base mesh, the standard trick for making low-poly game assets look sculpted. In the viewer it renders as a clean white piece, like an ivory or resin original.
- Triangles
- 3,998
- Vertices
- 2,003
- File
- GLB · 1.56 MB · 1024 px WebP textures
- Budget
- Very light
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Creator
- Csaba Baity (tsabszy)
What you can do with it
- A chess game or board-game simulator
- A demonstration of how normal maps add detail without triangles
- A starting point for a printed chess set (scale to about 90 mm tall)
Performance: is 3,998 triangles a lot?
Very light. Fine for mobile games, standalone VR and web pages, even with many copies on screen. It has fewer triangles than 90% of the 52 models in this library. Read more about polygon budgets, or how to reduce a model's polygon count.
Before you use it
The carving is in the normal map, not the geometry. A printed copy will come out smoother than the render.
Free to use, change and sell under CC BY 4.0, as long as you credit the creator. A ready-made credit:
"Chess Piece, King" by Csaba Baity (tsabszy) (https://sketchfab.com/tsabszy), https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/51dc45670f114c48a3f63cf2dd4f169c, via Objaverse on Hugging Face. CC BY 4.0. Textures re-encoded to 1024 px WebP.
Make your own version
Want it in your own style? Start from this prompt in text to 3D:
an ornate carved chess king piece with a cross on top
