Game Dev
MagicaVoxel is a free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and path tracing renderer.
Material Maker is a free and open-source, procedural texture authoring tool based on Godot Engine. It can also be used standalone or as a Godot add-on.
Its user interface is based on Godot's GraphEditor: textures are described as interconnected texture generators and operators.
TextureLab is a tool designed to make procedural texture generation fast, simple and free. It is the first in a line of tools dedicated to make the process of making beautiful textures easy and artist-friendly. This project aims to eventually become a worthy competitor to Substance Designer.
FEATURES:
- Export all textures at once or save them individually
- Unity Export
- 25+ nodes and counting
- Cross-Platform (It's built using electron and vue)
- Fast! All filtering and texture generation operations are done on the GPU
- Free and Open Source
Symbinode is an easy-to-use material creation program. The program is written in C++ and uses the power of the GPU. It is free and open source.
Use Goxel to create and edit voxel graphics (3D images formed of cubes) using a simple but very intuitive editor interface. It's an open-source editor built with C (programming language) that's available across all major desktop platforms.
FEATURES
- 24 bits RGB colors.
- Unlimited scene size.
- Unlimited undo buffer.
- Layers.
- Smooth rendering mode.
- Export to obj, pyl, magica voxel, png, qubicle, povray, and more.
- Ray tracing.
- Programmatic rendering using Goxel procedural language.
- Marching Cube for smooth rendering.
Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel. Games can be exported with one click to a number of platforms, including the major desktop platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows), mobile platforms (Android, iOS), as well as Web-based platforms (HTML5) and consoles.
FEATURES
Visual editor, full of mature tools. Uncluttered UI, with context-sensitive editors. Amazing scene system, supporting instancing and inheritance. Friendly content creation interfaces for artists, level designers, animators, … Visual shader editing for 2D and 3D. Persistent live editing (changes are not lost after stopping the game). Live editing on mobile devices!
ArmorPaint takes advantage of a render engine found in the Armory project. Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration, turning it into a complete game development tool.
ArmorPaint is designed from scratch to run completely on the GPU. This results in a smooth 4K painting experience even on a medium-power integrated hardware. On the other hand, up to 20K texture painting is seamless using a high-end graphics card.
Work fast with the convenience of nodes. ArmorPaint uses a subset of standard material nodes found in Cycles render engine. This enables you to paint with complex, fully procedural materials using the proven workflow. Apart from materials, brush nodes are used to easily create painting patterns, shapes and procedural brushes.
The software binaries are provided with a one time donation of about €16, but can be built from the GitHub source.
GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, and more.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, rigid body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting.
Blender is Free Software. Free to use for any purpose. Forever.
