Game Development
Find here some links and content about video game development.White Papers
Links
Various game development related links in no particular order- Allegro gaming library. See also http://www.allegro.cc/
- OpenGL
- Open Scene Graph
- Matrix Rotation Tutorial on cprogramming.com
- Crystal Space
- About sinusoids
- Classic games resources
- http://www.3dlinks.com
- INRIA mesh database
- http://wiki.gamedev.net
- Isometric game makers
- Basic 3D Math
- IRR Licht
- Tiling in OpenGL
- Nehe Radial Blur lesson
- Game Development Basics for Symbian OS v9
3D Models
Free
Commercial
- http://www.3drt.com/
- http://www.frogames.net
- http://www.exchange3d.com
- http://www.turbosquid.com
- http://www.dexsoft-games.com/
Images
- Check out http://commons.wikimedia.org
3D Modeler
- MilkShape - cheap
- ModelMagic3D - cheap
- Blender - open source
- MeshLab - open source
- Ultimate Unwrap 3D - cheap
UV Map tools
Explosions
Used Blender to make an explosion animation, capture a few frames then create a texture with 16 frames for instance.- http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-gta/OpenGL/examples/explosion.html
- http://alphashooter.sourceforge.net/opengl.html
- http://graphics.stanford.edu/~tolis/toli/software/asteroids/
- http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=470719&whichpage=1�
- http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=30
Skybox
- http://www.katsbits.com/htm/tutorials/blender_rendering_skybox_environment.htm
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Build_a_skybox
Source code
- http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/
- http://www.lib3ds.org/ - 3DS format loader