Platinum Arts Sandbox - Free 3D Game Maker Forum

I listed these programs in another post but thought it would be good to have their own post. I added one more program to the list "CharactorFX."
All the below programs are free:
Wings3d, a great modeler with a outstanding uv mapper.
http://www.wings3d.com/

Tattoo 3D, This was my first 3D texturing program. It great for fast texturing but limited on more powerfull functions as it a older program. Free to use for non-commerical work.
http://www.terabit-software.co.uk/

Blacksmith 3D, You can paint your models in realtime 3D. The "freeware" 3D painter limits your export image size to 1024 x1024 which is more than enough for Sandbox
http://www.blacksmith3d.com/blacksmith3 ... ftware.php

Artweaver, a 2d paint program like photoshop. It supports layers. Some texture artist like to paint on the flat 2D uv map image for textuing and other texturing usage.
http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

Misfit Model 3D, to add bones and animations for your NPC or other models, plus to save your model as a md3 file with the animation data. be sure to get the lastest beta version
http://www.misfitcode.com/misfitmodel3d/

CharactorFx, for adding bones and animation to your models. It's a little older program but works great and saves to md2 files.
http://www.insanesoftware.de/

MD3Compile, a very quick and easy converter for md2,3ds files to a md3 file. I use it for converting my static 3ds models into a md3 file plus to rebuild my 3ds model's normals.
http://www.quakeunity.com/file=481

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Very helpful list! i mite just use some of them.







Gr1m

Hey i'm new to sandbox. I understand you need to use md2, md3 or md5 file types for models, but wings3d saves them as a .wings file. How do i convert it?

-Thanks-

krazykyle wrote:Hey i'm new to sandbox. I understand you need to use md2, md3 or md5 file types for models, but wings3d saves them as a .wings file. How do i convert it?

-Thanks-

Look at your export settings. That will get you started. I hope to make a tutorial flash video titled "From Wings3d to Sandbox" this weekend.
It will cover exporting from Wings 3D, converting your model file to a md3 with the parameters. Setting up your md3.cfg and loading the model into the game engine.

The tutorial will cover only static models, no animation.

Good topic. I award thee with stickage.

Thanks so much for posting this and adding in the great descriptions! Take care!
-mike

Let me just say thank you so much for showing me this!, I've used wings3d this week and its great! by far my favorite 3d modler.

Here is my list of freeware I can't do without, google will help you locate them/

Modelers= anim8or, fluxstudio(now called vivaty), These are what I use (along with simply3d/ paid $5.00 on ebay)
Nurb Modelers=cb model pro, and sculptris
Model Converter= 3d exploration
Model Shrinker=,( to lower poly count.) ==Balancer lite

Textures= Gimp (freeware paint program), gimp has a function to make seamless tiles, and it works perfectly, I will post it soon.

Video Capture= debut video capture, for making machinima from your sandbox worlds, then edit in microsoft movie maker.

Paint program= photofiltre

very helpful, too bad there isnt a "rate this" option here, id give you 15/10 10 being the highest. Thanks for this

note: animator only works on xp and before that (unless you have the xp converter in your windows 7)