Tools (Content Creation)

Software and online tools for content creators.

Textures

• GIMP - alternative GIMP - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program for Linux, OS X and Windows.
• PaintNET Plugins - Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows.
• 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

• BVHacker - Animation for OpenSimulator avatars.
• QAvimator - Animation for OpenSimulator avatars.
• 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

• 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.
• LMMS - Compose sound and music on Windows, Linux and OS X.

Music

• LMMS - Compose sound and music on Windows, Linux and OS X.