Panda3D
Panda3D is a 3D engine: a library of subroutines for 3D rendering
and game development. The library is C++ with a set of Python
bindings. Game development
with Panda3D usually consists of writing a Python program
that controls the the Panda3D library. Panda3D is unusual
in that its design emphasis is on supporting a short learning
curve and rapid development. It is ideal whenever deadlines
are tight
and turnaround time is of the essence.
Autodesk
3ds max
3ds max™ for Windows® is the world’s best-selling professional
3D modeling, animation and rendering software for creating
visual effects, character animation and next generation game
development. 3ds max delivers a fully collaborative 3D environment
and new high-speed interactive rendering. Its completely customizable
and extensible architecture allows for absolute artistic freedom.
chUmbaLum
sOft MilkShape 3D
MilkShape 3D is a low-polygon modeler, which was initially
designed for Half-Life. During the development, many file
formats have been added. MilkShape 3D has all basic operations
like select, move, rotate, scale, extrude, turn edge, subdivide,
just to mention a few. MilkShape 3D also allows low-level
editing with the vertex and face tool. Primitives like spheres,
boxes and cylinders are also available. MilkShape 3D has also
skeletal animation capabilities. This allows to export to
morph target animation like the ones in the Quake model formats
or to export to skeletal animations like Half-Life or Genesis3d.
MilkShape 3D currently supports 37 different file formats
from 27 different games/ engines/programs.
Universal map editor
Universal map editor is a special program for game developers
and level creators. It was designed for most 2D tilebased
games. Arcade, puzzle, logic, maze, race, shooter, strategy,
jump&run or platform games are possible. This editor can reduce
the development time by 50%.
caligari
gameSpace
Caligari's gameSpace is the only high end,
3D graphics authoring environment designed for game developers.
Create characters, worlds, weapons and more, with import and
export for major games and game development formats, at one
unbeatable price!
Mizno
Lab. Metasequoia
Metasequoia is a polygon modeler for 3DCG
and game development. It provides you efficient modeling works.
It is very easy to use and learn. Even a beginner of 3DCG
will be able to manage it one day. It runs on Windows 95/98/NT4.0/2000/XP.
Blitz
Research Ltd Blitz3D
Blitz3D provides a simple yet powerful environment
for game creation - simple, because its based around the popular
and easy to use BASIC programming language; and powerful,
thanks to a highly optimized underlying 2D/3D engine.
Insane
Software CharacterFX
CharacterFX is a shareware character animation package, created
for game developers. It allows you to animate meshes with
a skeleton and keyframes. Its integrated scripting language
makes it extremely easy to extend. The easy and intuitive
user interface actually makes it fun to animate characters!
Winged
Edge Technologies Mirai
Building motion: The high level of integration
between Mirai's animation tools is the key to its power. True
3D IK and biomechanical motion editing are complemented by
the most comprehensive channel-based non-linear animation
interface commercially available. That lets you "build" motions
like a 2D artist would build an image, in layers. And just
like with paint systems, the ability to work in layers gives
you higher quality results with less hassle. It's a major
step forward from traditional keyframing.
Blitz
Research Ltd BlitzPlus
BlitzPlus provides developers with a complete
2D programming solution for the PC. Utilising a BASIC/C hybrid
language for use with its compiler, BlitzPlus is capable of
creating any type of 2D program, with minimal development-time
and with minimal hassle. Just run the included IDE (or use
one of your own), type your code and your Windows executable
file will be created, ready to be run on any computer running
Windows 95/NT 4 or later.
caligari
gameSpace Light
gameSpace Light is not just a trial copy of
gameSpace, but a functional package in its own right. Now
you can work on models using all the modeling and animation
tools from gameSpace, and save models of up to 650 polygons
so that you do not have to do everything in one go. You can
save to standard gameSpace format, and industry standard .X
format, so your can use your models in your games and mods!
gameSpace Light is designed to let you get started in creating
3D content for games, so you can find out if it is for you,
get a head start in learning about 3D modeling and animation,
or even start creating your game or a game prototype, all
without the need to worry about cost.
DigitalScores
3D Matrix
The 3D Matrix modeler is fantastic for those
building real-time applications such as simulation, interactive
animation and games. It functions as a standalone program
or as a utility to integrate with your other favourite 3D
applications.
Not
a Number Blender
Blender is a free powerfull 3D modeling, rendering,
animation package.
DyVision
ALE - Advanced Landscape Editor for realtime 3D
Terraform huge landscapes in REAL-TIME with
WYSIWYG results. Use up to 6 individual textures to directly
paint your landscape with no loss of quality or speed. Automatic
optimization usually reduces polycount by about 50% on exported
models with absolutely no visible artefacts! Set the suns
position, then lightmap the entire landscape within seconds.
Use vertex colors to add even more variation to your creation.
Add virtually limitless variation to your textures in realtime
with no performance overhead. Intuitive & productive interface.
Blitz
Research Ltd Maplet
Maplet is a 'Constructive Solid Geometry'
based modeller. This means that instead of modelling with
polygons, vertices and so on, all modelling is performed with
solid 'primitives'. Using operations such as 'carve' and 'fill',
solid primitives are combined together to create models.
Autodesk
Maya
Maya is a powerful suite of award-winning
2D/3D animation and visual effects software used in the film,
video, broadcast, game development, interactive and location-based
entertainment markets.
NewTek
LightWave
LightWave 3D has consistently dominated the television and
film markets. The game development market is soon to follow.
Designed for production use, LightWave boasts the industry's
fastest most beautiful rendering engine, complete subdivision
modeling, and an animation system built upon the worlds fastest,
most accurate 3D Inverse Kinematics (IK) engine. You have
found the application that delivers all the power you need
today, the flexibility to expand tomorrow, and at a price
the competition cannot beat. With radiosity, caustics, subdivision
surface animation, Skelegons, thousands of enhancements, and
an unsurpassed workflow, LightWave [6] is everything you need
in an animation system.
The
Game Creators DarkBASIC
DarkBASIC allows you to create your own games, demos, slideshows,
even business applications using the easy to understand BASIC
programming language. Even if you've never coded before, just
follow the in-depth tutorials and you'll be generating results
in minutes! Harness the power of Direct X and make 3D objects
come to life in just a few simple commands.
Conitec
Corporation 3D GameStudio
With hundreds of published titles, 3D GameStudio is the leading
authoring system for all sorts of 2D and 3D realtime applications.
It combines the C-Script programming language with a high-end
3D engine, a 2D engine, a physics engine, a level, terrain
and model editor, and huge libraries of 3D objects, artwork
and pre-made games. It was never easier to create 1st person
games, 3rd person games, role playing games, side scrollers,
flight simulators, board games, sports games, real-time presentations,
virtual exhibitions... and 3D applications never seen before!
The
Game Creators DarkBASIC Professional
DarkBASIC Professional is the most advanced games development
package built on the BASIC language currently available. No
other package out there makes it as easy to incorporate all
of the special features and effects you see in todays games
and no other package natively offers the benefits of Microsofts
DirectX 9 technology.
The
OGRE Team OGRE 3D rendering engine
OGRE v1.0 is the leading open source real time 3D rendering
engine. OGRE is packed with features to make your development
life easier, whether you're making games, architectural visualisation,
simulations, or anything else which requires a top-notch 3D
rendering solution.
Irrlicht 3D engine
The Irrlicht Engine is a cross-platform high performance realtime
3D engine written in C++. It is a powerful high level API
for creating complete 3D and 2D applications like games or
scientific visualizations. It comes with an excellent documentation
and integ- rates all the state-of-the-art features for visual
representation like dynamic shadows, particle systems, character
animation, indoor and outdoor technology, and collision detection.
All this is accessible through a well designed C++ interface,
which is extremely easy to use.
G3D
3D Engine
G3D is a commercial-grade 3D Engine available as Open Source
( BSD License ). It is used in games, tech demos, research
papers, military simulators, and university courses . It provides
a set of routines and structures so common that they are needed
in almost every graphics program. It makes low-level libraries
like OpenGL and sockets easier to use without limiting functionality
or performance. G3D gives you a rock-solid, highly optimized
base from which to build your application.
jet3d.com
Jet3D
Jet3D is a state-of-the-art 3D graphics engine built for high
performance real-time rendering. Jet3D offers advanced lighting
features, 3D modeling support, seamless soft-skin polyonal
characters and many other innovations.
CMLabs
Vortex
Vortex, by CMLabs, is the leading toolkit for simulating physics-based
motion in interactive 3D applications. Vortex delivers robust, ready-to-use
libraries for collision detection and rigid-body dynamics. Vortex
is unsurpassed in defining how objects move and interact in a virtual
environment.
Havok
Physics SDK
Havok is real-time dynamics/physics for game developers.
Some of the world's leading developers are using Havok
to unleash the full potential of their designers and
programmers. Havok and Ipion are working together to
develop the technology needed to produce the next generation
of games. Tools are provided for both programmer and
designer to facilitate parallel development streams
early in the project lifecycle. Havok technology is
multi-platform (PC, Mac, PS2 and Xbox) and integrates
easily with many other middleware solutions currently
available, such as 3D graphics, AI, character animation
and sound engines.
Havok
Hardcore
Havok Hardcore is a game SDK offering rigid bodies, constraints,
cars and ragdolls with a full range of support tools, demos
and documentation. The full Havok game SDK includes all of
the Havok Hardcore functionality and additionally offers fully
integrated soft bodies, cloth, particles, rope and fluids.
Binary
People ltd Lightbulb
Bring your 3D creations to life with this stunning feature
rich lightmapping application. LightBulb is a new 3D Lightmapper
and Level Editor. It was designed to be EXTREMELY user-friendly
whilst maintaining a high level of access to all lightmapping
and object parameters.
Mystic
Game Development EMotion FX
EMotion FX 2 is a realtime character animation
system designed to be plugged into any 3D engine, game or
any other product. The SDK is unique in the middleware market,
offering leading edge functionality not available in other
commercially available products and designed to complement
the game development production pipeline in a powerful and
flexible way. EMotion FX 2 has been designed to give the professional
developer a character animation SDK that will help you realize
game characters that are as life-like and emotionally expressive
as possible. EMotion FX 2 is a fast, flexible, clearly documented
and functionally rich character animation SDK. The product
was written to give the character animator and game programmer
the features they need and the control over those features
to deliver compelling, credible characters and to put the
control of those characters completely in your hands. EMotion
FX 2 is modular and is shipped with source.
Mark
Overmars Game Maker
Did you always want to design computer games? And you don't
want to spend a lot of time learning to become a programmer?
Then you came to the right place. Game Maker is a program
that allows you to make exciting computer games without the
need to write a single line of code. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop
actions you can make professional looking games in little
time. Games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and
sound effects. And once you get more experienced there is
a built-in programming language that gives you full flexibility.
What is best, Game Maker can be used completely free of charge.
And you can use the games you produced in any way you like.
You can even sell them! Game Maker comes with a collection
of freeware images and sounds to get you started. Also there
are a number of example games. These are mainly provided as
examples and not as full-blown games. Here you see a picture
of the interface.
Delgine
DeleD 3D Editor
A 3D editor. Create your own
3d objects and complete scenes by manipulating 3d objects
like polylines, rectangles, cubes, pyramids, and cylinders.
Use them in your own 3d (game) project. Version 0.8.2 contains
9 custom maps, 3 texturepacks and a number of prefabricated
3d objects (prefabs). New: this version contains an enhanced
userinterface, a prefab viewer, a polyline primitive and a
number of small improvements. Download and install the entire
package or just get the Help file if you want to read more
about DeleD first.
Virtools
Dev
Virtools Dev™ is a powerful behavior-based interactive 3D
development tool for the PC. Specifically designed to meet
production needs of cutting-edge Web3D and game development,
Virtools Dev provides the groundwork and tools that allow
your team to unleash its creativity and harness the full potential
of the Virtools Behavior Engine.
Adobe
Director
Macromedia Director MX Shockwave
Studio is the solution for developing magnetic Internet destinations
and powerful multimedia. Director combines graphics, sound,
animation, text, and video to create streaming, multiuser,
interactive Web content that is easy to deploy for CD-ROM,
DVD-ROM, and the Web.
Virtools
Creation
Virtools Creation™ is a powerful behavior-based interactive
3D authoring tool for the PC. Whether you're a independent
graphic artist, game developer, programmer or multimedia
author, Virtools Creation provides the groundwork that
allows you to unleash your creativity and focus entirely
on content.
Virtools
Community Swap Meet
Exchange ideas and market your skills with other Virtools
users.
Game
Developer
Game Developer, the print publication written specifically
for creators of entertainment software, provides technical
and industry information to over 35,000 professional game
developers. Each month, industry leaders and game development
experts share technical solutions, review new products, and
discuss strategies for creating innovative, successful games.
Professional game developers count on Game Developer magazine
for the most relevant and respected content in the game industry.
AwingSoft
Light Map Maker
Light Map Maker is a tool for real-time 3D developers, it's
main feature is adding realistic lighting to real-time 3D
scenes. It's robust lighting utility support ray tracing lighting,
realistic radiosity lighting, and caustics, mirror, ... Light
Map Maker provides
a SDK(c++) for importing/exporting various data; now supports
some popular 3D formats; so it's compatible with most game
development software.
Lo-Fi
Games Scythe
Scythe is a modelling tool for physics engines. You can create
objects, vehicles, ragdolls, structures... all from physical
joints and bodies, and then test them, throw them around,
break them, before saving to file and loading into your own
game. It is time for games to evolve. In the future there
will be no static level geometry. Nothing you cannot pickup,
knock around and break.
Gamasutra.com
It is a online magazine for Professional game developers.
gamespy.com
An online magazine for game developers.
GIGnews.com
News. tutorials, inside info and more for computer game industry
professionals.
computerandvideogames.com
A magazine for game users..
GamesFirst
GamesFirst! Magazine's award-winning computer and console
game site offers hundreds of reviews, articles, and editorials
to the gaming public.
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