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?1UV mapper utility
http://www.uvmapper.com/index.htmlBlueprints page for Balsawood model airplanes.
http://www.theplanpage.com/index.htmQuakeworld sticky of great links useful for modeling. tools, tutorials etc
http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/026206.htmlFree 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.htmlPlanetary 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.htmlSome 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.htmThis 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=2Blueprints of several differnt models of Anima Robots
http://www.geocities.com/deepstrikr/paints.htmlboardgame geek. looking for info on a boardgame that is no longer around? you can probably find it here
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/newuser.phpMath 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.htmlnice sticky of links over at BlenderArtist.org
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread?t=8780Not 3DGS related but an awsome game in development that ive been following for some time.
http://www.taleworlds.com/index.htmlIf 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.htmllots of public domain Counter strike WAD files
http://www.cs-maps.org/index.php?page=maplist.php&type=wads&source=N&sort=&pageno=3Forum with some great background pics links for 2D style games
http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=208&mforum=holyzenA few nice midi/mp3 music files
http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/gjoung/music.htmlArtpapa 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.phpA handful of Quake2 maps ( some links are dead) easy to import quake2 maps into 3DGS
http://www.geniac.net/quake2.htmLists of spaceship games/miniature rules. helpful background info for someone wanting to make a spaceship game.
http://zappa.brainiac.com/spaceship/index.htmlIndex 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.htmllots of airplane blueprints for modeling
http://members.fortunecity.com/inedesca/#some free textrues and image samples
http://www.environment-textures.com/index.php?id=4concept 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.htmlMetasequoia modeling program
http://www.metaseq.net/english/index.htmlSome 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.htmif you find these links helpful/useful. drop a post ill then put more up later.
