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Contents 1 Modeling and Animation 1.1 3d Modeling and Animation 1.2 World/Map Editing 1.3 Special-purpose 3D Programs 1.4 Rendering 2 Textures and Images 2.1 Raster Graphics (painting with pixels) 2.2 Vector graphics (drawing with shapes) 2.3 Procedural texture editors 3 Sounds and Music 4 Game engines 4.1 OGRE 3D 4.2 Crystal Space 4.3 Irrlicht 4.4 GPL id Tech (Quake) engines 4.5 Aardappel's engines 4.6 Other 3D engines 4.7 2D Engines 5 Game Libraries 5.1 Physics Libraries 5.2 Network Libraries 5.3 Procedural content creation 5.4 Various Open Source Libraries

[edit] Modeling and Animation

[edit] 3d Modeling and Animation

• Blender (GPL) - modeling, animation, rendering, and game engine!
• Wings 3D - subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai
• Anim8or - modeling, animation, rendering
• Freyja - modeling and animation program by Mongoose
• Pretty Poly - 3D modeler also used for converting file formats
• K3D - K3D modeling program
• gSculpt - procedural subdivision modeller

[edit] World/Map Editing

• http://www.qeradiant.com/ GtkRadiant (GPL) - map editor for id Tech (Quake) engines.
• http://quark.planetquake.gamespy.com/ QuArK (GPL) - map editor for several game engines (including id Tech/Quake engines.)

[edit] Special-purpose 3D Programs

• http://www.dedalo-3d.com/index.php Makehuman (GPL) parametric generation and pose of humans
• ngPlant procedural tree generator
• Ivy-Generator - procedural ivy plant generation
• Arbaro - procedural tree generation for povray

[edit] Rendering

• http://www.yafray.org/ (LGPL)
• http://www.indigorenderer.com/ (not free software but gratis)

[edit] Textures and Images

[edit] Raster Graphics (painting with pixels)

• The GIMP: Feature rich image editing suite
• Krita: The KDE image editing suite

[edit] Vector graphics (drawing with shapes)

• Inkscape: Vector graphics suite (GPL)
• XaraXtreme: Linux vector graphics suite
• Synfig: Vector based animation suite

[edit] Procedural texture editors

• FxGen: Procedural texture editor & library

[edit] Sounds and Music

• Aldrin modular sequencer aldrin.eu sourceforge Google Code
• Rosegarden audio and MIDI sequencer
• Wired music production suite
• Hydrogen drum machine
• Ardour digital audio workstation

[edit] Game engines

Free Software (Open Source) game engines and graphics engines.

[edit] OGRE 3D

• OGRE 3D LGPL 3D engine
• Ogre WiKi - Official Ogre 3D Wiki
• Yake - Game engine based on OGRE3D
• OGE - Open Game Engine (based on OGRE3D)

[edit] Crystal Space

• Crystal Space LGPL 3D engine
• CEL - Crystal Entity Layer
• CELstart - Scripted game executable
• Crystal Core - Official Crystal Space demo
• Crystal Community - Crystal Space community page

[edit] Irrlicht

• Irrlicht 3D engine distributed under OSI approved zlib/libpng license
• IrrLicht Wiki - Official Irrlicht Wiki
• irrKlang - Sound engine for Irrlicht
• irrEdit - World editor for Irrlicht

[edit] GPL id Tech (Quake) engines

• id Tech 1 (used in Quake)
  • Dark Places - A highly updated Quake based engine
  • QuakeForge - One of the eariest GPL Quake projects
  • GLQuake and GLHexen2 for MacOS
  • Open Quartz utilities - for map compiling, making pak files, etc.
  • tenebrae - modification of Quake 1 source code
• id Tech 2 (used in Quake II)
  • QFusion - A highly updated Quake2 based engine
  • EGL - Another highly updated Quake2 engine
• id Tech 3 (used in Quake III: Arena)
  • IOQuake3 - The standard improved GPL Quake3 engine!
  • XReal - A highly updated Quake3 based engine
  • Evolution Q3 - Another highly updated Quake3 engine

[edit] Aardappel's engines

• Aardappel's Engines
• Cube - 2.5D engine & editor
• Sauerbraten - ZLIB licensed 3D engine & editor
• Quadropolis - Cube & Sauerbraten resources

[edit] Other 3D engines

• NeoEngine fully featured Open Source 3D game engine (dual license, GPL or commercial)
• Horde 3d (LGPL)
• Sylphis3D - fully featured GPL 3d game engine
• Spring - Total Annihilation like RTS engine & game
• Glest - GPL RTS engine & game
• Thunder&Lightning - GPL flight simulator engine & game

[edit] 2D Engines

• FIFE - Flexible isometric fallout like engine
• Stratagus - Real time strategy engine

[edit] Game Libraries

Free Software (Open Source) libraries to use in your free games.

[edit] Physics Libraries

• Bullet - ZLIB 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library
• ODE - BSD rigid body dynamics engine
• Flatland - BSD 2D physics engine

[edit] Network Libraries

• OpenTNL - GPLed Network engine from the Torque engine
• RakNet - GPL high performance network engine
• HawkNL - LGPL low level network engine
• RaptorNL - Successor to the HawkNL networking library

[edit] Procedural content creation

• FxGen - Procedural texture generation tool & library
• ngPlant - Procedural plant generation tool & library
• OpenTree - Procedural plant generation library
• Munty engine - GPL neural networks procedural animation library

[edit] Various Open Source Libraries

• Cal3D is a skeletal based 3D character animation library (LGPL)
• COLLADA - 3D Model exchange format
• Audiere - LGPL high-level audio API
• HawkVoice - LGPL multiplayer voice over network API
• FEAR - GPL artificial intelligence for games
• OpenSteer - MIT Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Characters