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Tess Juel: /* Models */ Adding a more detailed description of Wings 3D. Adding 3DS Max to the list of Other tools

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‎Models: Adding a more detailed description of Wings 3D. Adding 3DS Max to the list of Other tools

Tess Juel: Tess Juel moved page Artist Tools to Tools (Content Creation): Changing name to match normal wiki naming conventions

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‎Terrain: Adding link for TerreSculptor

Tess Juel at 13:02, 25 May 2023

2023-05-25T13:02:13Z

Tess Juel: Created page with "Software and online tools for content creators. == Models == === Blender === * Link: http://www.blender.org/ (confirmed 2023-05-25) * Use: Mesh models, Materials, Terrain, A..."

2023-05-25T10:53:38Z

Created page with "Software and online tools for content creators. == Models == === Blender === * Link: http://www.blender.org/ (confirmed 2023-05-25) * Use: Mesh models, Materials, Terrain, A..."

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Software and online tools for content creators.

== Models ==

=== Blender ===
* Link: http://www.blender.org/ (confirmed 2023-05-25)
* Use: Mesh models, Materials, Terrain, Animations
* OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
* License: Open source (GNU GPL)
* Price: Free
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. It is mainly known as a mesh editing/creation program but is also a powerful tool for creating animations, materials and terrains.

=== SketchUp ===
* Link: (Old link broken, add new)
* Type: Program
* Use: Mesh models
* OS: Windows, Mac
* License: Propietary?
* Price: Free?
Entry level mesh model editor/creator software. SketchUp is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry CSG] based which means it tends to generate rather "dirty" and render heavy meshes. As the name indicates, it was made as a 3D sketching tool and never intended for making models for real time rendering. Use it carefully!

=== Other tools ===
* [http://www.makehuman.org/ makehuman] - Realistic 3d humans, open source for Windows, OSX, Linux.
* [http://www.wings3d.com/ Wings 3d] - Sculpty editor
* Maya
* Zbrush

== Textures ==
* [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] - [http://www.partha.com/ alternative GIMP] - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program for Linux, OS X and Windows.
* [http://www.getpaint.net/ PaintNET] [http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/7-plugins-publishing-only/ Plugins] - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows.
* [http://spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm WoodWorkshop] - Wood Workshop is a free seamless texture editor for Windows.

== Materials ==

=== NormalMap Online ===
* Link: https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ (confirmed 2023-05-25)
* Use: Materials
* OS: Online tool
* License: Open source?
* Price: Free
A simple but surprisingly effective online tool for generating normal, specular, AO and displacement maps. NormalMap Online is supposed to use height maps as input but it can be effective for some textures too.

== Terrain ==

=== Blender ===
See the [[#Blender]] description in the Models section.

=== Other tools ===
* [http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/ L3DT] Windows-only tool to generate detailed terrain. Now has a specific Opensim export option, which exports in r32 format.
* [http://terrain.party/ Terrain.Party] Web-based tool for turning terrain from a real life world map into a height map which can be imported into Opensim using "terrain load <texture_name>.png". Note that the textures require resizing, since they are exported as 1081x1081 png files
* [http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller.php/ Daylon Leveller] Windows-only tool for producing terrains from from a variety of sources (including Second Life, Terragen, and terrain.painter), and using painting-like tools and filters to create features. Imports and exports region(s) from/to Opensimulator, either as a tileset of one or more terragen files, or via PNG/RAW formats.

== Animations ==

=== Blender ===
See the [[#Blender]] description in the Models section.

=== Other tools ===
* [http://davedub.co.uk/bvhacker/ BVHacker] - Animation for OpenSimulator avatars.
* [http://www.qavimator.org/ QAvimator] - Animation for OpenSimulator avatars.
* [https://tali.appspot.com/bvh/bvhmirror.html BVH Mirror] - This is an online service to mirror a BVH animation/pose file. That is, looking left becomes looking right, the pose of the left arm becomes the pose of the right arm, etc..

== Sounds ==
* [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] - Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
* [http://lmms.io/ LMMS] - Compose sound and music on Windows, Linux and OS X.

== Music ==
* [http://lmms.io/ LMMS] - Compose sound and music on Windows, Linux and OS X.

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−	~~Software and online tools for content creators.~~

−	~~== Textures ==~~
−	* [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] - [http://www.partha.com/ alternative GIMP] - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program for Linux, OS X and Windows.
−	* [http://www.getpaint.net/ PaintNET] [http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/7-plugins-publishing-only/ Plugins] - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows.
−	* [http://spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm WoodWorkshop] - Wood Workshop is a free seamless texture editor for Windows.
−	* FilterForge
−
−	~~== Materials ==~~
−
−	~~=== NormalMap Online ===~~
−	* Link: https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ (confirmed 2023-05-25)
−	* Use: Materials
−	* OS: Online tool
−	* License: Open source?
−	* Price: Free
−	A simple but surprisingly effective online tool for generating normal, specular, AO and displacement maps. NormalMap Online is supposed to use height maps as input but it can be effective for some textures too.
−
−	~~=== Other tools ===~~
−	* Materialize
−	* Substance Painter
−
−	~~== Animations ==~~
−
−	~~=== Blender ===~~
−	~~See the [[#Blender]] description in the Models section.~~
−
−	~~=== Other tools ===~~
−	* [http://davedub.co.uk/bvhacker/ BVHacker] - Animation for OpenSimulator avatars.
−	* [http://www.qavimator.org/ QAvimator] - Animation for OpenSimulator avatars.
−	* [https://tali.appspot.com/bvh/bvhmirror.html BVH Mirror] - This is an online service to mirror a BVH animation/pose file. That is, looking left becomes looking right, the pose of the left arm becomes the pose of the right arm, etc..
−
−
−	~~== Sounds ==~~
−	* [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] - Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
−	* [http://lmms.io/ LMMS] - Compose sound and music on Windows, Linux and OS X.
−
−	~~== Music ==~~
−	* [http://lmms.io/ LMMS] - Compose sound and music on Windows, Linux and OS X.

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	Software and online tools for content creators.		Software and online tools for content creators.
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−	~~== Models ==~~
−
−	~~=== Blender ===~~
−	* Link: http://www.blender.org/ (confirmed 2023-05-25)
−	* Use: Mesh models, Materials, Terrain, Animations
−	* OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
−	* License: Open source (GNU GPL)
−	* Price: Free
−	Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. It is mainly known as a mesh editing/creation program but is also a powerful tool for creating animations, materials and terrains.
−
−	~~=== SketchUp ===~~
−	* Link: (Old link broken, add new)
−	* Type: Program
−	* Use: Mesh models
−	* OS: Windows, MacOS
−	* License: Propietary?
−	* Price: Free?
−	Entry level mesh model editor/creator software. SketchUp is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry CSG] based which means it tends to generate rather "dirty" and render heavy meshes. As the name indicates, it was made as a 3D sketching tool and never intended for making models for real time rendering. Use it carefully!
−
−	~~=== Wings 3d ===~~
−	* Link: http://www.wings3d.com/ (confirmed 2023-05-28)
−	* Type: Program
−	* Use: Mesh models (and to some degree sculpts)
−	* OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
−	* License: Open source
−	* Price: Free
−	A simpler and less developed free 3D modelling program. This is a good alternative for many since, unlike SketchUp, it offers all the functions you really need to create mesh for opensim and much fewer of the often confusing mass of functions not relevant for our purpose than Blender and the big commercial programs.
−
−	Unlike the other 3D modelling programs Wings 3d also has some limited support for sculpts, limited since it only supports 32x32 format sculpt map. This function is a bit compromised though since it requires special templates that can be hard to find.
−
−	~~=== Other tools ===~~
−	* [http://www.makehuman.org/ makehuman] - Realistic 3d humans, open source for Windows, OSX, Linux.
−	* 3DS Max
−	* Maya
−	* Zbrush

	== Textures ==		== Textures ==

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 * Materialize
 * Substance Painter
 == Animations ==

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 * Price USD 49.95 (Confirmed 2023-05-26)
 Windows-only tool for producing terrains from from a variety of sources (including Second Life, Terragen, and terrain.painter), and using painting-like tools and filters to create features. Imports and exports region(s) from/to Opensimulator, either as a tileset of one or more terragen files, or via PNG/RAW formats.
 === L3DT ===
-Link: http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/ (Confirmed 2023-05-26)
+* Link: http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/ (Confirmed 2023-05-26)
 * Functions: Generate and edit height maps
 * OS: Windows

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 === Blender ===
 See the [[#Blender]] description in the Models section.
 === TerreSculptor ===
-* Link: http://www.demenzunmedia.com/home/terresculptor/
+* Link: http://www.demenzunmedia.com/home/terresculptor/ (Confirmed 2023-05-26)
-* Use: Height map generator
+* Function: Generate height maps
 * OS: Windows
 * Price:
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 ** v. 3.0: CAD 109 (c. USD 79)
 A great tool for auto-generating fractal terrains. The editing functions are rather limited though and it's hard to set a good height range so it's best used in conjunction with a good editor such as L3DT.
-TerreSculptor was free until v. 2.0 and the latest free version is still available at the website's support page (http://www.demenzunmedia.com/home/support/). Most of the changes since then are about texturing and the textures can't be uplaoded or used in opensim anyway.
+TerreSculptor was free until v. 2.0 and the latest free version is still available at the website's support page (http://www.demenzunmedia.com/home/support/). Most of the changes since then are about texturing and the textures can't be uploaded or used in opensim anyway.
-−
-=== Other tools ===
-* [http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/ L3DT] Windows-only tool to generate detailed terrain. Now has a specific Opensim export option, which exports in r32 format.
-* [http://terrain.party/ Terrain.Party] Web-based tool for turning terrain from a real life world map into a height map which can be imported into Opensim using "terrain load <texture_name>.png". Note that the textures require resizing, since they are exported as 1081x1081 png files
-* [http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller.php/ Daylon Leveller] Windows-only tool for producing terrains from from a variety of sources (including Second Life, Terragen, and terrain.painter), and using painting-like tools and filters to create features. Imports and exports region(s) from/to Opensimulator, either as a tileset of one or more terragen files, or via PNG/RAW formats.
 == Animations ==

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 * Type: Program
 * Use: Mesh models
-* OS: Windows, Mac
+* OS: Windows, MacOS
 * License: Propietary?
 * Price: Free?
 Entry level mesh model editor/creator software. SketchUp is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry CSG] based which means it tends to generate rather "dirty" and render heavy meshes. As the name indicates, it was made as a 3D sketching tool and never intended for making models for real time rendering. Use it carefully!
 === Other tools ===
 * [http://www.makehuman.org/ makehuman] - Realistic 3d humans, open source for Windows, OSX, Linux.
-* [http://www.wings3d.com/ Wings 3d] - Sculpty editor
+* 3DS Max
 * Maya
 * Zbrush

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 * [http://www.getpaint.net/ PaintNET] [http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/7-plugins-publishing-only/ Plugins] - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows.
 * [http://spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm WoodWorkshop] - Wood Workshop is a free seamless texture editor for Windows.
 == Materials ==
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 * Price: Free
 A simple but surprisingly effective online tool for generating normal, specular, AO and displacement maps. NormalMap Online is supposed to use height maps as input but it can be effective for some textures too.
 == Terrain ==