Info + Resource + downloads thread

[dislekcia]

Nope, modding isn't illegal :)

-D

[|-|1Pp13]

Well i cleaned out my bookmarks today and thought i may share some of the more usefull links

Name generator
Big list of RPG plots
Find sounds on the web
ANSCII table

Other:
10 UI lessons from the real world

PS: if some have been posted already, sorry, ill check my font resources against those already provided

[DragonR]

Cool dude

Wat r the free 1 ?

Very important 4 me since I am broke = 1

1= I am a kid

[edg3]

This is a thread for free resources so excluding the engines almost everything is free. If you're asking about the engines, if I have time I can go through them and indicate if they are free or not.

[DragonR]

Cool thank you

Umm I still think I am missing something

[01DT!m3r]

I found a website full of helpful GM stuff gmtutorials.com

[Bonezmann]

I don't know if this is already somewhere here but you might wanna add this: http://www.gmresource.jassinc.com/se...egory=graphics under sprites

[Bonezmann]

Has anyone worked with Crystalspace 3D? I don't want to waste 45MB of my cap on something that might be too hard to work with :)

[Thaumaturge]

Funnily enough, I downloaded it just recently. While some of the demos looked rather good, as I recall, I had some problems with their performance, although of course this is probably largely related to my slightly old machine (a P4 2.4GHz with an FX5200). That said, I haven't gotten around to really playing with the engine yet (I managed to build Crystal Space itself, but had a few problems in building CEL, which I haven't gotten around to working on overmuch, I don't think). I haven't tried out CELstart.

I'm finding that I'm getting fairly settled into Panda at the moment, which I'm quite enjoying, and which looks as though it might be a good choice for my purposes, at least. I've also found that, thus far, it hasn't been too difficult to get up and running, I don't believe.

Between the two, what experience I've had of their forums has been more positive in Panda's case, specifically in that Panda's forum seems to be more active. That said, Crystal Space's support sub-forum looks as though it might be more active than the rest of their forums.

If you haven't already, I suggest at least taking a look at Panda. If you don't know Python, I wouldn't worry overmuch - it doesn't seem to be too difficult to pick up the basics (I'm new to it myself).

Bear in mind please, however, that I haven't tried out Crystal Space as a tool with which to develop, and am new in Panda's use.

[FuzzYspo0N]

panda sounds and looks awesome. depending on what you are doing of course, although crystal space has always hit me as a bit of a lol tool. like, its not my favourite. my favourite by far is irrlicht (atm) and its free ness is great. the tutorial series in the mag continues this coming devmag and also i will look at doing a review of all free and majotr engines soon too.
For now, my advice is to find something simple. once u can use simple tools and simple systems to get simple 3d games moving and up, its easier to add difficult concepts . rather then being hit with walls all along

[Thaumaturge]

Irrlicht can look good, and is an impressively small download, as I recall, but I don't think that it has certain game-related features that Panda and Crystal Space (the latter with CEL, and perhaps CELstart, at least) have. For example, I believe that Irrlicht doesn't include entity elements, or sound (although another project, Irrklang, provides sound, if I recall correctly).

[Bonezmann]

Panda it is then ^_^, thanx

[FuzzYspo0N]

yea irrlicht is a rendering engine, not a game engine. There are game engines based off irrlicht with incredible shaders built in etc too.

lightfeather is one that stands out, and is awesome , got tools and everything
http://lightfeather.de/news.php

Irrspintz was a good engine, that has some good movement,
moved over to 3demon its got some epic features as well
http://www.3demon.net/

Also, there is always xna which is really easy to get into.

[edg3]

Updates have been made, Ive been neglecting this thread for a little, but meh, will get to it soon. (Also I have links to useful things on XNA to share)

[edg3]

Ive done another update, but its getting pretty messy so Im making a plan to neaten it up as much as I can and to make it more practical :)

[dislekcia]

I would just like to point out how utterly WIN this thread is now!

-D

[Chippit]

It is indeed! Good job, edg3. Concise resource thread is concise.

[Afflict]

Awesome :)

[Cyberninja]

Awesome job edg3. :)

[edg3]

What would be nice is a shortening tag, allowing me to have a main heading, and then allow you to minimise/maximise a group of text so that there is more emphasis on the categories.