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General Resources

3D Buzz - Free Tutorials, Training Information, Job Postings, & more

The Render Node Magazine

Decoplant Home Site - Plants of shapes and sizes, images galore

MilieuxThe Costume Site - Lots of costume images

The Art of Puzzle Design Crow's Nest

GraphicsPapers.com

Art Of Gaming - Contact

generation5 - At the forefront of Artificial Intelligence

Screaming Hollow - 3D Game Programming Resources

Voodoo Extreme

Xtreme Games LLC Web Site

DTA GAMES. The altimate amature games creation web site 

Gamasutra - The Art & Science of Making Games

Game Developer Magazine

Game Developers Conference 2004

GameDev.net - all your game development needs

Games Domain - Welcome to Games Domain

GDSE - The Game Programming and Design Search Engine

sounds4games.com [ the soundsource for gamedevelopers ]

Welcome @ www.JOsHonen.ch.vu !

Unreal Studios -Team Members

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Art Development Software

Affordable Software for 3DGames or Maps & Mods


3D:

Milkshape 3D

modeling and animation software by chUmbaLum sOft.

AC3D

3D design, modeling and UV mapping software

DeleD Pro

Game editor, buildings and structures; 3D editor. Also, DeleD supports UV mapping and comes in LITE and PRO editions. (About $60)

Silo

3D modeling software, will have ZBrush like capabilities and UV mapping with version 2, very high end, very low cost

Game Space

3D design and environment $300

3D Strata

3D design $250

OpenFX

Open Source; 3D modeling software win 98, 2000 only

Blender

Open source 3D design software

2D:

The Gimp

Open source free paint program

Inkscape

Open source free graphics program (like Adobe Illustrator)

PD Pro Digital Painter v3

Project Dogwaffle full version paint program

Project Dogwaffle

Freeware paint program, ealy version of Pro above

Paint Shop Pro

version 8 - 10 (get IT on ebay) paint program

Terrain:

Terragen™

Sky and terrain generator (About $90), great for skybox graphics. Free for personal use.

TerraEdit

terrain generator (not being updated)

Terrain Generator

Nem's Mega Terrain Generator,

Level Building:

DeleD Pro

Game editor, buildings and structures; 3D editor. Also, DeleD supports UV mapping and comes in LITE and PRO editions. (About $60)

QuArk

Open Source, game level editor, buildings and structures

3D World Studio

2 versions, Game editor, buildings and structures

UV Mapping:

Ultimate Unwrap3D

Lets you unwrap model skins for painting

Textures:

Wally's Home - News

Texture design (beta / not being updated)

Texture Maker

Texture design and creation software

Bricks n Tiles

Texture design, specificly brick/stone wall and floor tiles. Free for personel ues.

Rendering:

Kerkythea

Free Rendering Engine with a GUI interface. This has the capability of rederers costing hundreds.


3D Design Learning Editions



www.Autodesk.com

Maya PLE - Free for non commercial use
Studio PLE - Free for non commercial use

TurboSquid

GMAX - can be integrated with games such as QuakeIII and UT 2003

Softimage

XSI mod tool - works with games like Half-Life 2


Professional Software


Adobe

Photoshop:

Autodesk

3D Studio Max:
Maya:

Softimage

Lightwave:

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Game Engines

Many of the well know game engines can be licensed. See manufactures' web sites for details.


Affordable (royalty free): See some game engine comparison charts here.


What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)  (world editors and more included)

3D Game Studio

A suite of design tools, script editing, stable v6+ and in development

3DCakewalk

World editor, script editing, "Early Beta" stage but looks good

Beyond Virtual  "BV"

World editor, script editing, and more, Robust, very stable and addictable but needs more development and user testing, worth a test drive. Deled and Silo coming to art pipline.

3D RAD

World editor, basic editing, stable V5.2 but stopped development


C++ Compile (art editors need to be added)


Garage Games

Many native editors, script editing, early version but solid development (need level and art editiors)


Free (open source)


Reality Factory

GPL - build a shooter or demo your work get the latest version here on CD with Blender, DogWaffle and Tutorials

Quake 3 Source

A bug free and stable version of the Quake 3 GPL.

Irrlicht Engine

A free open source 3d engine


Mapping


The VERC Collective

Official Half-Life (1 and 2) site and mapping info

Unreal Tournament news

Official UT site

UnrealWiki

SemiOfficial - UT, UT2K3, UT2K4 mapping info of all sorts.


Programing


MS Visual Studio express

Very affordable

Visual C++ NET v2003

Deluxe Learning Edition - Find it on Amazon Book and V C++ NET 2003 standard ed. software


Distribution Utilities


InstallShield

Software Installation and Migration for SysAdmins and Developers

Loader Creator 3.0 @ Happy Troll's

 

Game Publishing

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