Blender developer tools
2D GRAPHICS AND VIDEO:
- The GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/- Irfanview - THE freeware imageviewer (like ACDC)
http://www.irfanview.com/- VirtualDub – video capture/processing
http://www.virtualdub.org/index- DogWaffle - inexpensive natural media paint program
http://www.squirreldome.com/cyberop.htm- CamStudio - capture video from screen activity.
http://www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/- LiVES – video editor (linux)
[url]http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/[/url- Cinelerra – video editor/compositor (linux)
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3- Cuisine – video editor (linux)
http://cuisine.bigasterisk.com/home- DVDRHELP-a site with many tools for video
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
EXECUTABLE TOOLS:
- IconArt-make customicons for your game .exe
http://www.conware.org/products/ia/about.php- Icon Replacer - for custom .exe icons
http://www.8ung.at/s_w- Setup2go and Installer2go-installer creators
http://www.dev4pc.com/products.html- Autoplay Generator - make your .exe start when you insert your CD
http://www.technologismiki.com/hackman/index.html- QuickMenuBuilder-create executable menus
http://www.quickmenubuilder.com/Menu.php- Resource Hacker - Lets you extract/replace resources (icons, etc) from ANY exe file. Kool little util.
http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/- FMV-ed - Use real movie files (AVI's, MPEG's etc) as cut-scenes in your games!!
http://www.blender4ever.wcj.net/resources.shtml- BGLauncher - Provides a GUI for launching Blender games with the Publisher runtimes and allows you to take in-game screenshots (stand-alone version is also available)
http://www.8ung.at/s_w/- Inno Setup - a very good free installer.
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php- ISTool – Inno Setup uses a script language, but if you don't want to do so much writing you can download this extension to help you create the scripts (very powerful!):
http://www.istool.org
SOUND:
- FindSounds-search the internet for sounds for your game
http://www.findsounds.com/types.html- A site with tutorials on making sound for games
http://www.planetquake.com/voxfeminae/
TEXTURES:
- http://www.i-tex.de/gallery.htm/
- http://www.noctua-graphics.de/english/fraset_e.htm
- http://www.mayang.com/textures/
- http://www.3dgate.com/freeware/textures/packs/000120/
- http://www.ilschaft.com/txtpics.html
- http://www.fantastic.ukart.com/6textures/index.htm
- http://perso.club-internet.fr/lemog/
- http://www.animax.it/#
- http://www.boogaholler.com/weekly/texture/arc2002.html
- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/
- http://art.net/~jeremy/photo/public_texture/index.html
- Over 3000 great reference pics to make textures with (free for both commercial and noncommerical use).
http://www.imageafter.com/- Shadegen - ShadeGen is a free tool to generate shade maps and shaded colour maps from height maps.
http://users.0800dial.com/rowan/download.htm- texture creation program
http://www.atomixbuttons.com/- Wally - game texture editor
http://www.telefragged.com/wally/
ART HOW-TO:
- http://www.makart.com/resources/artclass/
- http://tutorials.xxdz.com/graphics/colors/
- A great step by step of a cool painting
http://www.imphead.com/about/blendboywip/bb1.html- Some really nice art tutorials, great site to check regularly
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials- Concept art technique
http://www.cardesignnews.com/studio/index.html- Painting lessons (photoshlop)
http://www.gorblimey.com/tutorials/- Some great how-to draw
http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/index.html- Nice painting stuff
http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/- Storyboarding
http://www.ffranceschi.com/midima/tutoen07.html
3D GRAPHICS
- Wings3D - sub-D poly modeling
http://www.wings3d.org/- Milkshape 3d - shareware, exports to almost any game format imaginable
http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/- Crossroads - 3d converter, doesn't support textures
http://home.europa.com/~keithr/Crossroads/index.html- Accutrans - 3d converter, supports full materials and textures, shareware
http://www.micromouse.ca- The converter's paradise. If I want to convert something to another format, I look here first.
www.converters.tk- FTBlender: Blender bitmap text tool.
http://www.blendergames.com/downloads/ftblend_win32.zip
MODELING TUTORIALS
- Modeling a 5 minute car
harn12_24.htm- Modeling a low-poly head
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~ops/tutori...ad/lowhead.htm- Another technique for modeling a low-poly head
http://webreference.com/3d/lesson52/- low-poly terminology
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.18/totb/- low-poly modeling tips
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.18/totb/- A low-poly creature modeling tutorial
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.9/totb/- A low-poly monster modeling tutorial
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.13/totb/ (part 1)
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.14/totb/ (part 2)
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.16/totb/ (part 3)
TEXTURING TUTORIALS
- Texturing rusted metal
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...s/metals.shtml (part 1)
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...als/rust.shtml (part 2)
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...orrosion.shtml(part 3)- Texturing cloth and fabric
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...th/part1.shtml(part 1)
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...th/part2.shtml(part 2)
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...th/part3.shtml(part 3)- Game character texturing tutorials
http://www.planetquake.com/skindom/tutorials/- More character texturing tuts
http://planetunreal.com/identitycris...ls/index.shtml- A generic texture painting tutorial
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.19/gc/(part 1)
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.23/gc/(part 2)- A low-poly character texturing tutorial
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.4/totb/- Heres an excellent tutorial on fixing textures, getting rid of annoying repeating patterns, using a high pass filter:
http://www.3dgate.com/techniques/200...0625hajba.html- How to make a few metal surfaces
http://www.planetquake.com/hfx/tutorials.html- How to paint various natural textures
http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/- Photoshop tutorials
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshoptutorials/- More Photoshop Stuff
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/pho...yles/index.htm
ANIMATION TUTORIALS
- A walkcycle animation tutorial
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.22/totb/- Preston Blair animation book online(this one is awesome!)
http://www.freetoon.com/prestonblair/intro/frame.html
OFFICE SOFTWARE
- Abiword-text editor
http://www.abisource.com/- OpenOffice-office suite
http://www.openoffice.org/
GENERAL GAME DEVELOPMENT
- Game dev tools and utilities at gamehippo.com
http://www.gamehippo.com/gamedev/tools.shtml
http://www.gamehippo.com/gamedev/utilities.shtml- A huge list of game resources, tutorials, and tools
http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum11/HTML/001100.html- Loonygames - game dev info. There's lots of great stuff there, unfortunately finding it is very difficult because their pulldown menus of archived articles are no longer working.
http://www.Loonygames.com- Game Development Search Engine
http://www.gdse.com/servlet/gdse.main- A very good site with tutorials and other resources
http://xu1productions.com/3dstudio/
Crystal Space - opensource game engine
http://crystal.sourceforge.net/drupal/
A general repository of 3D tutorials
http://webreference.com/3d/
free software site
http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/
