THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
I thought i'd post the list here, since this is the new home for many, hope it will be stickied
Also added some stuff exclusively here.
Here we go:
3d modeling apps:
-blender: http://www.blender.org
Pros:One of the most powerful free 3d apps with a big community.
Cons: A really daunting interface.
-wings 3d: http://www.wings3d.com
Pros: a great subdivision modeling tool.
cons: no animation included.
-anim8tor: http://www.anim8or.com
Pros: great animating and modeling package, relatively easy to use.
Cons: The community seems a bit inactive... just an impression.
-Deled: http://www.delgine.com
Pros: A very simple and effective solution to make static objects (buildings..)
Cons: The lite (free) version is a bit too basic compared to other packages.
-3D canvas: http://www.amabilis.com
pros: a great modeling and animation tool.
cons: once again, it seems that you are a castaway using the free version.
-XSI mod tool: http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/
pros: get a renown software for free.
cons: can be a bit scary at first!
-GameSpace light: http://www.caligari.com/gamespace/gsl/gsl.asp
pros: the light (free) version have all the same tools that exist in the paying version!
cons: restricted polygon usage and limited exporting capabilities
-Gmax: http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
pros: based on the popular (And expensive) 3Ds max so its relatively powerful and especialy built for game content
cons: It also inherits the dreadful UI from it's bigger brother
-K3d: http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page
pros: a powerful modeling/animating open source tool
cons: it requires basic knowlege of programming (i don't know a single line of code )
-Misfit model 3d: http://www.misfitcode.com/misfitmodel3d/main.html
pros: open source modeling tool with support for skeletal animation
cons: the supported formats are a bit limited
-4D Blue: http://www.4dblue.com/home.html
pros: great modeling and animating tool
cons: it seems like the development on it has stopped (correct me if i'm wrong)
-truespace 7.6: http://cart1.caligari.com/web/Truespacemainreg.aspx
pros:A commercial package released for free and all it's professional tools are now ours!
cons: It currently has limited exporting capabilities.
-CBmodelPro: http://www.cbmodelpro.com
pros: Great sculpting tool an free alternative to zbrush
cons: models can get pretty high poly and inapt to put in games
-Moonlight 3d: http://www.moonlight3d.eu
pros: very active development (nightly builds). If you can run java on your machine you can run moonlite3D.
cons: Hard learning curve. Need some programming knowledge.
-http://sketchup.google.com
pros: extremely easy to use good for rapid prototyping
cons: lacks the power and exporting capabilities of it's competitors
Map bakers:
-Nvidia Melody: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/melody_home.html
A great tool that bakes normal maps from high res models, with some other functions too.
-xnormal: http://www.xnormal.net/Default.aspx
xNormal is an application to generate normal / ambient occlusion / parallax displacement and relief maps. It can also project the texture of the highpoly model into the lowpoly mesh ( complete texture transfer, even with different topologies ) IT"S GREAT.
- Light Map Maker: http://www.awingsoft.com/LightMapMaker/ ... pmaker.htm
This tool bakes light maps and export them, adding great effects to your game.
AMD GPU MeshMapper: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/MeshMapper ... fault.aspx
Amd's counterpart for Nvidia's Melody. Use it for displacement and Normal map baking.
Miscellaneous applications:
-Make human: http://www.dedalo-3d.com
A GREAT tool to make customized characters for your games saving you loads of time and money.
-faceworx: http://www.looxis.com/en/k75.Downloads_ ... wnload.htm
a great tool that allows you to model a face from just two photos!!
-3D Object Converter: http://web.t-online.hu/karpo/
A 3d object converter (DUH!) with 524 supported formats!
-LithUnwrap: http://www.geocities.com/lithunwrap/?200814
unwraps a model to a bitmap so a texture could be painted later on.
-sprite forge: http://www.d-grafix.com/?page=spriteforge
A very useful app that converts 3d models into animated sprites!
-citygen: http://citygen.net/
it is still in the beta phase, but it is still useful to procedurally generate cityscape
-grenfish relief map generator: http://greenfish.extra.hu/downloads.php
Another amazingly useful application to randomly generate relief maps
-Alchemy: http://al.chemy.org
An ingenious innovating art tool that uses sound to make images. once fully mastered incredible art can be done with it!
Animation:
-DAZ studio: http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/software/studio/-/?
state of the art features with good animation tools and renderer
-synfig : http://www.synfig.org/Main_Page
A very powerful 2d vector based animation software
-Fragmotion: http://www.fragmosoft.com/
A powerful animation tool with modeling capabilities
Video
-Wax: http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
An amazing free video editing software, a must have for any studio toolset.
-virtual dub : http://www.virtualdub.org/
Easy and good for personal use but not so powerful.
Audio
-Audacity : http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Web
-Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
A good software to make flash walk throughs and tutorials
-Synthasite : http://www.synthasite.com
An amazing free web builder very easy to use recommend for beginner web masters.
-kompozer: http://kompozer.net
A great open source wysiwyg editor.
Landscape generators:
-terragen: http://www.planetside.co.uk
A great terrain generator with the version 2 beta released.
-Earth sculptor: http://www.earthsculptor.com/
another good terrain modeling solution.
-bryce 5.5: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/06/16 ... -for-free/
A great versatile and professional approach to landscape modeling. It also has GREAT material possibilities.
-landscape studio: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CA ... udio.shtml
Another landscape generator.
-L3dt: http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/
Great potential but sadly, the free version is limited. commonly used for rts mods.
-HemaHema: http://reinerstileset.4players.de/hemahemaE.html
In my opinion, the best landscape generation tool around, free without any limitations!
-Nem's terrain generator: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=8
A great tool for making megaterrains.
Texture and Procedural generators:
-MaPZone: http://www.mapzoneeditor.com
the GREATEST material tool.
-Shader Designer: http://www.typhoonlabs.com/
A good tool but unfortunately the development on it stopped
NO PICTURE AVAILABLE (if you could provide any please pm me)
- http://www.imageafter.com
A great free collection of commercial use textures.
-masonry designer: http://www.trinity3d.com/free3dtools/
this tool provides brick texture generation.
NO PICTURE AVAILABLE (if you could provide any please pm me)
-paver designer: http://www.trinity3d.com/free3dtools/
this tool generates pavement textures
NO PICTURE AVAILABLE (if you could provide any please pm me)
-bricks'n'tiles: http://www.3d-rekonstruktionen.de/bricksntiles/
A tool that makes seamless brick texture from virtually any source image
-wood workshop: http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm
A tool that generates tons of seamless wood textures.
2d editors:
-The Gimp: http://www.gimp.org
A great image manipulating tool could be used to make custom textures
-inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org
another great free 2d editor
-paint.net: http://www.getpaint.net
A simple yet very powerful tool with layer system capabilities
-Artweaver: http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
Aiming at a more artistic crowd, this editor is still capable of fast texture making.
-Pencil: http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/penci ... hp?id=Home
A simple 2d paint and animation software.
Trees and plants generators:
-Dryad: http://dryad.stanford.edu/
A great tree generator.
-ivy generator: http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/%7Eluft/ivy_generator/
like it's name says.. it's an ivy generator. And a great one!
-ngPlant: http://ngplant.sourceforge.net/
another plant generator.
-Tree generator 1.2: http://www.treegenerator.com/download.htm
an older free version of a commercial tree generator
-Plant studio: http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/PlantStudio/
A good plant generator.
-Tree[d]: http://www.frecle.net/forum/viewtopic.p ... light=tree.
THE tree generator to have!
world editors:
-Gile[s]: http://www.frecle.net/giles
Specializes in light mapping.
-LiquidLight: http://liquidlight.edgesoftware.uni.cc
A terrain editor made for game maker but can be used for other software.
-pnp terrain: http://www.pnp-terraincreator.com/
A community supported world editor
-Irredit: http://www.ambiera.com/irredit/
world editor for irrlicht but is worth checking out for all sorts of projects.
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I hope you like the list. Any software suggestions appreciated.
Also added some stuff exclusively here.
Here we go:
3d modeling apps:
-blender: http://www.blender.org
Pros:One of the most powerful free 3d apps with a big community.
Cons: A really daunting interface.
-wings 3d: http://www.wings3d.com
Pros: a great subdivision modeling tool.
cons: no animation included.
-anim8tor: http://www.anim8or.com
Pros: great animating and modeling package, relatively easy to use.
Cons: The community seems a bit inactive... just an impression.
-Deled: http://www.delgine.com
Pros: A very simple and effective solution to make static objects (buildings..)
Cons: The lite (free) version is a bit too basic compared to other packages.
-3D canvas: http://www.amabilis.com
pros: a great modeling and animation tool.
cons: once again, it seems that you are a castaway using the free version.
-XSI mod tool: http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/
pros: get a renown software for free.
cons: can be a bit scary at first!
-GameSpace light: http://www.caligari.com/gamespace/gsl/gsl.asp
pros: the light (free) version have all the same tools that exist in the paying version!
cons: restricted polygon usage and limited exporting capabilities
-Gmax: http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
pros: based on the popular (And expensive) 3Ds max so its relatively powerful and especialy built for game content
cons: It also inherits the dreadful UI from it's bigger brother
-K3d: http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page
pros: a powerful modeling/animating open source tool
cons: it requires basic knowlege of programming (i don't know a single line of code )
-Misfit model 3d: http://www.misfitcode.com/misfitmodel3d/main.html
pros: open source modeling tool with support for skeletal animation
cons: the supported formats are a bit limited
-4D Blue: http://www.4dblue.com/home.html
pros: great modeling and animating tool
cons: it seems like the development on it has stopped (correct me if i'm wrong)
-truespace 7.6: http://cart1.caligari.com/web/Truespacemainreg.aspx
pros:A commercial package released for free and all it's professional tools are now ours!
cons: It currently has limited exporting capabilities.
-CBmodelPro: http://www.cbmodelpro.com
pros: Great sculpting tool an free alternative to zbrush
cons: models can get pretty high poly and inapt to put in games
-Moonlight 3d: http://www.moonlight3d.eu
pros: very active development (nightly builds). If you can run java on your machine you can run moonlite3D.
cons: Hard learning curve. Need some programming knowledge.
-http://sketchup.google.com
pros: extremely easy to use good for rapid prototyping
cons: lacks the power and exporting capabilities of it's competitors
Map bakers:
-Nvidia Melody: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/melody_home.html
A great tool that bakes normal maps from high res models, with some other functions too.
-xnormal: http://www.xnormal.net/Default.aspx
xNormal is an application to generate normal / ambient occlusion / parallax displacement and relief maps. It can also project the texture of the highpoly model into the lowpoly mesh ( complete texture transfer, even with different topologies ) IT"S GREAT.
- Light Map Maker: http://www.awingsoft.com/LightMapMaker/ ... pmaker.htm
This tool bakes light maps and export them, adding great effects to your game.
AMD GPU MeshMapper: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/MeshMapper ... fault.aspx
Amd's counterpart for Nvidia's Melody. Use it for displacement and Normal map baking.
Miscellaneous applications:
-Make human: http://www.dedalo-3d.com
A GREAT tool to make customized characters for your games saving you loads of time and money.
-faceworx: http://www.looxis.com/en/k75.Downloads_ ... wnload.htm
a great tool that allows you to model a face from just two photos!!
-3D Object Converter: http://web.t-online.hu/karpo/
A 3d object converter (DUH!) with 524 supported formats!
-LithUnwrap: http://www.geocities.com/lithunwrap/?200814
unwraps a model to a bitmap so a texture could be painted later on.
-sprite forge: http://www.d-grafix.com/?page=spriteforge
A very useful app that converts 3d models into animated sprites!
-citygen: http://citygen.net/
it is still in the beta phase, but it is still useful to procedurally generate cityscape
-grenfish relief map generator: http://greenfish.extra.hu/downloads.php
Another amazingly useful application to randomly generate relief maps
-Alchemy: http://al.chemy.org
An ingenious innovating art tool that uses sound to make images. once fully mastered incredible art can be done with it!
Animation:
-DAZ studio: http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/software/studio/-/?
state of the art features with good animation tools and renderer
-synfig : http://www.synfig.org/Main_Page
A very powerful 2d vector based animation software
-Fragmotion: http://www.fragmosoft.com/
A powerful animation tool with modeling capabilities
Video
-Wax: http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
An amazing free video editing software, a must have for any studio toolset.
-virtual dub : http://www.virtualdub.org/
Easy and good for personal use but not so powerful.
Audio
-Audacity : http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Web
-Wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
A good software to make flash walk throughs and tutorials
-Synthasite : http://www.synthasite.com
An amazing free web builder very easy to use recommend for beginner web masters.
-kompozer: http://kompozer.net
A great open source wysiwyg editor.
Landscape generators:
-terragen: http://www.planetside.co.uk
A great terrain generator with the version 2 beta released.
-Earth sculptor: http://www.earthsculptor.com/
another good terrain modeling solution.
-bryce 5.5: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/06/16 ... -for-free/
A great versatile and professional approach to landscape modeling. It also has GREAT material possibilities.
-landscape studio: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CA ... udio.shtml
Another landscape generator.
-L3dt: http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/
Great potential but sadly, the free version is limited. commonly used for rts mods.
-HemaHema: http://reinerstileset.4players.de/hemahemaE.html
In my opinion, the best landscape generation tool around, free without any limitations!
-Nem's terrain generator: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=8
A great tool for making megaterrains.
Texture and Procedural generators:
-MaPZone: http://www.mapzoneeditor.com
the GREATEST material tool.
-Shader Designer: http://www.typhoonlabs.com/
A good tool but unfortunately the development on it stopped
NO PICTURE AVAILABLE (if you could provide any please pm me)
- http://www.imageafter.com
A great free collection of commercial use textures.
-masonry designer: http://www.trinity3d.com/free3dtools/
this tool provides brick texture generation.
NO PICTURE AVAILABLE (if you could provide any please pm me)
-paver designer: http://www.trinity3d.com/free3dtools/
this tool generates pavement textures
NO PICTURE AVAILABLE (if you could provide any please pm me)
-bricks'n'tiles: http://www.3d-rekonstruktionen.de/bricksntiles/
A tool that makes seamless brick texture from virtually any source image
-wood workshop: http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm
A tool that generates tons of seamless wood textures.
2d editors:
-The Gimp: http://www.gimp.org
A great image manipulating tool could be used to make custom textures
-inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org
another great free 2d editor
-paint.net: http://www.getpaint.net
A simple yet very powerful tool with layer system capabilities
-Artweaver: http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
Aiming at a more artistic crowd, this editor is still capable of fast texture making.
-Pencil: http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/penci ... hp?id=Home
A simple 2d paint and animation software.
Trees and plants generators:
-Dryad: http://dryad.stanford.edu/
A great tree generator.
-ivy generator: http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/%7Eluft/ivy_generator/
like it's name says.. it's an ivy generator. And a great one!
-ngPlant: http://ngplant.sourceforge.net/
another plant generator.
-Tree generator 1.2: http://www.treegenerator.com/download.htm
an older free version of a commercial tree generator
-Plant studio: http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/PlantStudio/
A good plant generator.
-Tree[d]: http://www.frecle.net/forum/viewtopic.p ... light=tree.
THE tree generator to have!
world editors:
-Gile[s]: http://www.frecle.net/giles
Specializes in light mapping.
-LiquidLight: http://liquidlight.edgesoftware.uni.cc
A terrain editor made for game maker but can be used for other software.
-pnp terrain: http://www.pnp-terraincreator.com/
A community supported world editor
-Irredit: http://www.ambiera.com/irredit/
world editor for irrlicht but is worth checking out for all sorts of projects.
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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I hope you like the list. Any software suggestions appreciated.
Just FYI, the post is above, so stop looking down here and do something useful.
king noob. Nice.
king noob. Nice.
- Raven67854
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Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
Nice list there Kyraneth. I was wondering when this gets moved over to indie-resource . Thanks for posting it kyraneth.
C/C++/C#/Blitzmax/Visual Basic Programmer
Blender/XSI user
"It's not what you use. It's how you use it what you have" -Unknown author
"Sleeping the number one cause of death" -Raven67854
""No matter how much shit life throws at me. I will keep on going just to piss life off." -Raven67854
PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz Black Edition
8 gigs Corsair ram 1066mhz
9800GTX+
2x750gb HD
Vista Home Premium X64
Ubuntu 9.04 X64
Blender/XSI user
"It's not what you use. It's how you use it what you have" -Unknown author
"Sleeping the number one cause of death" -Raven67854
""No matter how much shit life throws at me. I will keep on going just to piss life off." -Raven67854
PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz Black Edition
8 gigs Corsair ram 1066mhz
9800GTX+
2x750gb HD
Vista Home Premium X64
Ubuntu 9.04 X64
Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
Great post! Found around 10 programs I never heard of that I thought was very intresting!
Some additions:
Notepad++ (Text editor)
Visual Studio Express Editions
ATI Rendermonkey (Shader tool)
Some additions:
Notepad++ (Text editor)
Visual Studio Express Editions
ATI Rendermonkey (Shader tool)
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very nice will sticky! NM Raven beat me to it...Damn you!!
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Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
C/C++/C#/Blitzmax/Visual Basic Programmer
Blender/XSI user
"It's not what you use. It's how you use it what you have" -Unknown author
"Sleeping the number one cause of death" -Raven67854
""No matter how much shit life throws at me. I will keep on going just to piss life off." -Raven67854
PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz Black Edition
8 gigs Corsair ram 1066mhz
9800GTX+
2x750gb HD
Vista Home Premium X64
Ubuntu 9.04 X64
Blender/XSI user
"It's not what you use. It's how you use it what you have" -Unknown author
"Sleeping the number one cause of death" -Raven67854
""No matter how much shit life throws at me. I will keep on going just to piss life off." -Raven67854
PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz Black Edition
8 gigs Corsair ram 1066mhz
9800GTX+
2x750gb HD
Vista Home Premium X64
Ubuntu 9.04 X64
Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
Glad to see so much work appreciated! I found those on the many "halls disease" seizures i had, and i thought categorising them would be helpful for you (and me) for future consultations. Many of them were sadly lost (i forgot their names )
Nice additions, i think i am going to add a text editor section. Thanks for the ideas!Some additions:
Notepad++ (Text editor)
Visual Studio Express Editions
ATI Rendermonkey (Shader tool)
Just FYI, the post is above, so stop looking down here and do something useful.
king noob. Nice.
king noob. Nice.
Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
i think my bandwidth just blew up
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Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
Hahahaha mines fine.. I think your PC is just crap.
C/C++/C#/Blitzmax/Visual Basic Programmer
Blender/XSI user
"It's not what you use. It's how you use it what you have" -Unknown author
"Sleeping the number one cause of death" -Raven67854
""No matter how much shit life throws at me. I will keep on going just to piss life off." -Raven67854
PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz Black Edition
8 gigs Corsair ram 1066mhz
9800GTX+
2x750gb HD
Vista Home Premium X64
Ubuntu 9.04 X64
Blender/XSI user
"It's not what you use. It's how you use it what you have" -Unknown author
"Sleeping the number one cause of death" -Raven67854
""No matter how much shit life throws at me. I will keep on going just to piss life off." -Raven67854
PC Specs:
AMD Athlon 64x2 5000+ 2.6ghz Black Edition
8 gigs Corsair ram 1066mhz
9800GTX+
2x750gb HD
Vista Home Premium X64
Ubuntu 9.04 X64
Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
Finally actually looked through this list. (Takes forever for this debug thing to start up, gives me a bit of multipurpose time) that pencil thing looks epic.
Nevermind, OSX only.
Nevermind, OSX only.
Re: THE FREE Software list: major image warning.
what pencil thing?
Just FYI, the post is above, so stop looking down here and do something useful.
king noob. Nice.
king noob. Nice.