Community models

Browsing

The Community models page shows every public model. A card sweeps from the finished picture to the bare mesh on hover, so you can judge the geometry before you spend anything. Two badges can appear on a card: Popular, which a model earns from real activity, and Gold, which marks the hand-finished models in the premium catalogue.

Two filters and a sort, which is all the catalogue needs. There is no price to sort by (browsing is free and downloads are priced the same everywhere) and every model is print-ready, so the chips that used to promise otherwise were removed:

• Search. Matches the title, the creator, the description and the tags at once.
• Category. From Figures to Vehicles; each shows a live count of what is in it.
• Sort. Trending, Newest, or Most downloaded.

On mobile the sidebar collapses behind a Filters button with a badge showing how many filters are active.

Model detail pages

Every card links to the model's own page, which has a live 3D viewer (drag to rotate, scroll to zoom) plus a Shaded / Solid mode toggle so you can see the underlying mesh without the texture. Below the viewer:

• Stats row. Views, likes, votes, comments, downloads.
• Tags. Click any to search Community models for related work.
• Pose / Outfit / Style. AI-derived metadata.
• Download button. Opens a scale + format picker (see Exporting).
• About + Related. Description and 4 other models in the same category.

Likes vs votes vs views

Three different positive signals, each captured separately:

• Views. Auto-counted when you load the detail page, debounced per browser session so refreshes don't inflate it.
• Likes. "Save" or "bookmark", one heart per user per model.
• Votes. "Endorse", open on Popular models only. Click the up-arrow to add a vote; click again to remove it.

Down-votes don't exist on 3DP Ocean. We chose a single positive signal because (a) negative votes in creator-economy platforms tend to be used as harassment, not feedback, and (b) the Report button covers actual policy violations.

Popular models

The Popular badge is earned, not given. A model picks it up when enough people like it, view it, comment on it, download it or open it in the Studio to make something of their own, held steadily for a week, not in a single burst.

It changes nothing about the model. The download price is exactly what it was the day it went up, and it never rises because a model did well. What the badge does is put a model on the Popular shelf on the home page, and open voting on it: sign in and use the up-arrow on any Popular model to back the ones you want to see more of.

A badge can also come off. Popular describes what people are enjoying now, so a model that goes quiet drops back. Nothing is lost, and it can earn it again.

Gold models

The Gold badge marks a small premium catalogue. Every Gold model is prepared and finished by hand before it goes up, so it is not simply a listing that did well.

Nothing you publish is ever turned into a Gold model, and nothing you publish ever changes price after the fact: what a model costs to download is fixed when it goes up. Gold is a quality mark, not a licence tier: a paid Gold model carries the same Extended Commercial License as any other paid listing (see Licenses). Downloading a Gold model costs 4 credits instead of 2.

Publishing your own

A new model is private until you choose to share it. You are asked once, on the result screen, and if you leave without answering the dashboard asks again. Two things are worth knowing before you answer:

• You can share a private model at any time. In the dashboard library, click the "Private" pill on any card, and it asks you to confirm before it goes out.
• Sharing is permanent. Once a model is in Community models it stays there, because other people find it, download it and build on it, and every download earns you a reward. If you ever need one taken down, contact support and a person will look at it.

Private models are visible only to you, but the address stays the same, so you can send a direct link to one specific person without sharing the model with everybody.

Reporting a model

Every detail page has a Report this model button at the bottom. We review reports within 10 business days, and we look first at the categories listed as "strictly prohibited" in our Content Policy.