Hello, I've been recently cleaning out my Favorites links after past 2-3 eyars of them piling up and thought I'd post some of the more significate ones applicable (or possibly applicable depening on your gumption )to 3DGS.

I know there is like 2 or 3 threads met to cover most useful links someplace here, just lazy today to go looking for them.

in no particular order:

nice web site with LOTS of contributed artwork. great if you need some visual insperations/ideas
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art.html?1

UV mapper utility
http://www.uvmapper.com/index.html

Blueprints page for Balsawood model airplanes.
http://www.theplanpage.com/index.htm

Quakeworld sticky of great links useful for modeling. tools, tutorials etc
http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/026206.html

Free on-line games. see what other independant game devs are making. learn from them by playing with other peoples works
http://play-free-online-games.com/games/games_all.html

Planetary maps. Cylindrical mappings of planets ( Sun, earth, moon ,mars etc)
great for using as skins for your spherical models that are cylindicaly UV mapped.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/spaceart/cylmaps.html

Some nice introductory HLSL .fx file shader tutorial/examples here
http://www.facewound.com/tutorials/shader1/

Kubel Wagon data. blueprint, specs etc. I at one time wanted to make models and driving sim based on the Kubel wagon
http://www.kubelwagen.co.uk/infophotosdrawingsetc/techidpagebuttons.htm

This forum board had some very nice links to pages with data, blueprints and pictures of many differnt countries military vehicals ( especialy around WWII vintage)
http://www.gamingforums.com/showthread.php?t=73774&page=2

Blueprints of several differnt models of Anima Robots
http://www.geocities.com/deepstrikr/paints.html

boardgame geek. looking for info on a boardgame that is no longer around? you can probably find it here
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/newuser.php

Math Help ( section on vector math) great refreasher or helpful if you havn't got a clue to begin with
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~jenolive/homevec.html

nice sticky of links over at BlenderArtist.org
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread?t=8780

Not 3DGS related but an awsome game in development that ive been following for some time.
http://www.taleworlds.com/index.html

If your into the game Othello(reversi) then this is where you should look on the web
http://home.nc.rr.com/othello/

An excellent openGL Terrain Rendering program here. Has a link to Wilbur, a great highfield generating program for making terrains
http://arrowsoft.ifrance.com/opengl.html

lots of public domain Counter strike WAD files
http://www.cs-maps.org/index.php?page=maplist.php&type=wads&source=N&sort=&pageno=3

Forum with some great background pics links for 2D style games
http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=208&mforum=holyzen

A few nice midi/mp3 music files
http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/gjoung/music.html

Artpapa forums. great tips/tutorials advice feedback if you ever wanted to draw/paint etc. Some incredable work gets posted here often
http://www.artpapa.com/forums/index.php

A handful of Quake2 maps ( some links are dead) easy to import quake2 maps into 3DGS
http://www.geniac.net/quake2.htm

Lists of spaceship games/miniature rules. helpful background info for someone wanting to make a spaceship game.
http://zappa.brainiac.com/spaceship/index.html

Index of images of anima study drawings
http://www.mosaiikki.net/works/drawn/

independant game dev/artist web site. has a nice tutorial on the GIMP scripting language as well as demos of his various game projects.
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/news.html

lots of airplane blueprints for modeling
http://members.fortunecity.com/inedesca/#

some free textrues and image samples
http://www.environment-textures.com/index.php?id=4

concept art web site. great for insperation
http://www.conceptart.org/

Free RPG's on the WEB. need some example games for game mechanics insperation?
http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/freerpgs/index.html

Metasequoia modeling program
http://www.metaseq.net/english/index.html

Some great articals if you need to understand more about game development and game engines.
http://www.flipcode.com/articles/

some space art tutorials
http://www.skyhighgallery.com/how-to-stars.htm



if you find these links helpful/useful. drop a post ill then put more up later.

Quite a lot helping links
*I want more*

Hi Grimber,
Yes, this is quite helpful. I don't think I could have found these if I had spent a week at a search engine. So thanks!!!
Regards,

Great links, I especially will find the vector maths tutorial quite handy as I know bugger all about vectors.
More links would be greatly appreciated, Maybe you could sticky this post.

Kindest regards Andrew..

this a really great contribution thx. But when i downloaded some counterstrike wads from that link

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lots of public domain Counter strike WAD files http://www.cs-maps.org/index.php?page=maplist.php&type=wads&source=N&sort=&pageno=3

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and assigned it to a block in wed and pressed run i got and error that it cant build d3d texture. Anyone know why this is?

well i downloaded a few packages and they all contained .wad files but i got an error it said that it cant build D3D texture i dont know why there is such a error maybe someone else knows.

cheers

Damarus

counter strike can use texture formats 3dgs cannot. you need to extract them from the wad and convert to one of the formats 3dgs uses.

the files are submitted by 3rd party users and they recomend to any submitter that anything submitted is for public use. ( at least thier copy write disclaimer use to state such)

be awair that CS wads contain more than just textures ( usualy level geometry as well). much of which we can't directly access from the wad ( you need some CS WAD utilities to extract the rest. in fact you should never use a cs wad as-is. your best use is to extract the images, convert thier format, then build new (3dgs) wad file(s)



Ill post more links soon. ive got folders within folders of links under my favorites.

this guy has a few nice modeling tutorials. done for 3Dmax but many of the concepts/steps can be adapted to other modelers
http://www.comet-cartoons.com/3dhelp.php#tutorials


universal RPG. simplified structure to build an RPG with a few additional suplements for 3 differnt genres
http://www.angelfire.com/games4/doctorwhoeyespy/


the big a$$ links page. though most i never found useful there were some on a few various subjects

( expecialy :
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia of Monsters
Fairy Tale Links
Fairy Tales
Legends of China
Norse Sagas
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Urban Legends Reference Pages
:links ) aprox 1/3 down the page.
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/bookmarks.htm

So you want to build a rocket. good background info in creating your own rocket ships/designs/plans ( if your going to make a game level of being in a space ship, make it make sense)
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html

Great Yorkshire Pudding recipe ( sorry just had to throw this one in, I can;t eat a roast without making some )
http://www.donogh.com/cooking/sidedish/yorkshir.shtml

Big list of spaceship games. some of which you can get the rules/mechanics off the internet. ( did i post this link already?)
http://zappa.brainiac.com/spaceship/spacewww.html

realtime abstract graphics generation discusions/articals
(clouds, underwater distortion and so on)
http://nis-lab.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~nis/abs_sig.html

realtime cloud generation methodologies.
http://www.vterrain.org/Atmosphere/Clouds/

zoom astronomy. going to make a spae game and want some background on space, but not to get bogged down with the complications of astronomy? great web site to learn about the basics of space and space bodies.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/

Very nice easy to understand explination of what texturemapping (UV mapping) is and how its done.
http://kimagure-hikoki.hp.infoseek.co.jp/TextureMapping/TextureMapping_e.htm

sci-fi meshs .com see what amitures and pros are doing for sci fi modeling. lots of help in thier community forums
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/

TONS of texture samples of all kinds of fabrics
http://www.haiks-inc.com/

more RPG sources
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/rpgworld/games.html

graphic and 3D file converter utilities ( some links are dead)
http://fraktali.849pm.com/graphcon.html

good model converter.
http://web.axelero.hu/karpo/

free textures
http://madmetzi.smokers-board.de/textures.htm

some nice models, free to private use. Need only written permission for public use.
http://www.amazing3d.com/free/free.shtml

some good non-commercial use models
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/

Building your levels but NEVER understood what the build means by number of Portals ? well read this and then you will have a good grasp of it. VERY important to know to keep your level designs stream lined and elminated some of them unexpected/unexplained FPS drop offs in spots of your levels.
http://www.fairyengine.com/articles/portals.htm#whatisit

enviroment textures/photos
http://www.environment-textures.com/index.php?id=4

anime drawing guide sheets.
http://www.anime-model-sheets.com/index.php?cat=0

how to draw. particulary human anatomy
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=0

some more links:

Michael Garland's page. Professor at University of Illinois and a research scientist for NVIDIA. has some great papers on computer graphics and some nice utilties
http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~garland/home.html

some nice tools
http://philliphansel.com/tools/free_tools.htm

lots of tools for programing/development, artwork, modeling sound etc. incuding many free packages
http://www.bakhter.com/html/main/3D-Designer.html

Some models / modeling links:

http://merkur01.inf.uni-konstanz.de/CCCC/

http://www.3dlinks.com/links.cfm?categoryid=9&subcategoryid=91

http://www.squawkrpg.net/fga/fmp.php

http://www.planit3d.com/source/software_files/3dmod.htm
Lightwave UV textureing tutorials
http://www.borderequals0.org/articles/uv_intro.cfm
Mapping magician UV mapper
http://www.royriggs.com/mapmagic.html

http://members.fortunecity.com/wendhausen/BRStarshipsv3/index.html
UV mapping with blender
http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=85
VizUp poly reducer ( i use this one the most for poly reduction)
http://www.vizup.com/load/index.html
ppModeler
http://www.ppmodeler.com/index.php
Wings 3D tutorials
http://www.geocities.com/paulthepuzzles/aardvarks.html
Very nice low poly character modeling tutorial
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/benmathis/benmathis_1.asp
3D lapadary, models of gems
http://www.3dlapidary.com/Home.htm
CADwire.com links to 3d models
http://www.cadwire.net/directory/dir.asp?/Computers/Software/Graphics/3D/Models/
Psionics website. lots of good stuff from this guy all the time
http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/news.php
Baumgartan Models
http://www.baument.com/archives.html
Lots of resources:
http://www.fignations.com/resources/home.html?page=/resources/ndo.html
quake2 modeling studio
http://www.quake2.com/modeling/


Blueprints/images sites for modeling

good blueprints here
http://www.the-blueprints.com/
photos of modern weapons
http://www.bdlltd.com/military_firearms%20MODERN.htm
korean war weapons
http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/arms.htm#weapons
Aircraft museum lots of aircraft 3 view images with referance photos
http://avia.russian.ee/index2.html
Suurland blueprints
http://www.suurland.com/
the human skeleton
http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/strauss/anatomy/skel/skeletal.htm
Lots of referance iamges of aircraft
http://airpower.callihan.cc/
lots of blueprints
http://www.3d.sibiul.ro/blueprints.php
Siege engine blueprints
http://198.144.2.125/Siege/Blueprints.htm
Starship blueprints
http://www.shipschematics.net/
robot prints
http://www.geocities.com/deepstrikr/paints.html