GameBlender developer tools

[TorQ]

This is an on going thread that lists links to cheap or free tools, assets, or knowledge that will aid in the developmeent of Blender Games. (Currently only listing Windoze apps) (Also not everything is categorized yet!) Please feel free to add! Thanks to those that contributed!

TorQ

This list is posted as is, use the information provided at your own risk. Please report duplicate links.


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/

[Hirpo]

Thanks! Those will come in handy!

[xintoc]

I see you have collected all the links from the forum... :P

[gorgan_almi]

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

Any1 kno if GIMP can do this?


Keith. 8)

[S_W]

Huge list!
Thanks you! :P

[TorQ]

updated

[ATMantis]

Don't know if it can be used in conjunction with Blender but, Cystal Space looks very handy, http://crystal.sourceforge.net/drupal/ , hope it helps.

[gorgan_almi]

Originally Posted by TorQ EXECUTABLE TOLLS:[list][*]IconArt-make customicons for your game .exe http://www.conware.org/products/ia/about.php ...

TOLLS???!! do have to pay??!?!

Don't forget about dis little exectutable TOOL:

Resource Hacker - Lets you extract/replace resources (icons, etc) from ANY exe file. Kool little util.
http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/


Keith. 8)

[doogs]

another huge list of game creator engines

http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html

doogs

[pato]

http://www.imageafter.com/

Over 3000 great reference pics to make textures with (free for both commercial and noncommerical use).

[Blender_owl]

heh, im working on an app for game design. the unix name is IGDI, look for it on sourceforge if you want more info. Im to lazy to type it all out :/

[hanzo]

thanks man I realy needed these!

[gorgan_almi]

EXECUTABLE TOOLS


FMV-ed - Use real movie files (AVI's, MPEG's etc) as cut-scenes in your games!!
http://hackmaster177.virtualave.net/...resources.html




Keith. 8)

[TorQ]

updated 2/22/03

[TorQ]

updated 02/24/03

added: irfanview image viewer http://www.irfanview.com/

[gorgan_almi]

hi TorQ sorry to be a nuience but could you change the URL of FMV-ed (in executable tools) to http://www.blender4ever.wcj.net/resources.shtml


Thanks

Keith. 8)

[TorQ]

Done!

[baboon]

FINALLY!!! FREE SOUNDS!!!!

[stateq2]

Great resources. [size=7]Thanx[/size]

[guru202]

FTBlender: Blender bitmap text tool

http://www.blendergames.com/downloads/ftblend_win32.zip