Useful Links

Misc

• the website of Znurre to see some screenshoots of the game
• irrlicht is free (as speech) game engine used for Neo
• Blender a free (as speech) multiplatforme renderer
• the virtual terrain project maybe someone will find useful stuff in here
• Bullet is a professional free 3D Game Multiphysics Library
• Blender Hotkey Keyboard Map
• some free good quality BVH files (Mocap)

2D tools

• texturize for gimp

3D tools

• Blender to B3D exporter
• The Irrlicht/Blender Exporter exports Blender scene and static node data to the native Irrlicht scene(.irr) and mesh (.irrmesh) file formats.
• Unihuman a wonderful low poly human generator found by haley (thanks thanks , thanks) , we can reduce the poly numbers (thanks mihoko for the rest of the information), for using this .blend we will need to mention it somewhere in the game/website. Here Some Tips How To Use Unihuman
• makehuman a free (as speech) software to make human exportable as .obj (importable in blender) it seems that makehuman don't fit for our project (problems to animate humans generated with it)
• innerworld is a free (as speech) landscape generator running inside Blender
• A french website with macro tree generator for pov-ray (not sure they'll fit in neo tought)
• Ngplant is a free (GPL) software to models plants you can see some creation with ngplant
• gen3 is a free script for blender that generate trees you can see some video tutorials here
• Arbaro another trees generator , this one read a xml file describing the tree and generate the tree
• suicidator a 3D cities creator that run inside blender as the authors of this project seems not working on it , another guy took the project and did a friendly fork here the website is in french only alas
• mancandy is a .blend who tend to ease the animation of human characters
• ludwig another character with rig (skeleton) look far more simple and easy than mancandy

Tutorials, documentation

• Animation tips
  • introduction to Mocap (Motion Capture) BVH files with blender (in french)
  • Advanced Mocap (bhv) usage
• General blender tuts:
  • our tutorials for texturing
  • Some good Blender tutorials but you need to know how to use Blender
  • Other Blender tutorials
  • Video blender tutorials
  • Texture tutorial for blender (in french)
• Low poly hair tuts
  • Playing with hair in blender
  • Excellent turorial for creating amazing hair on low poly models , it use maya/photoshop but it should be reproductible with blender/gimp
• Texturing
  • much low poly videos tutorial about texturing and modeling
  • some general information about 3d art and texturing
  • A step by step texturing tutorial
  • texturing low poly models in blender
  • Excellent video tutorial textures for ne New generation games (low poly)
  • Advanced edge control texturing in blender
  • this tutorial gives good tips about next gen texturing
  • doing a face textures tutorial

• Next gen (called) texturing for linux
  • Tips about normal map blender and gimp , this tutorial is on french , but i will translate it soon as needed
  • Normal map creation with gimp
• Terrains
  • Modeling a low poly terrain in blender

Models/materials/textures

• open3dproject 2 human models with a tricky open licence it seems that those models don't fit for our project (problems to animate them)
• much free (public domain) Materials for Blender this site will soon be moved to http://www.blender-materials.org/
• the blender textures CD some textures , materials and tutorials fallen in the public domain