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* [http://www.wings3d.com Wings3D] Cross-platform; Free. Highly advised for Oolite. A quick tutorial by Aegidian -> [[OXP_howto_model]] | * [http://www.wings3d.com Wings3D] Cross-platform; Free. Highly advised for Oolite. A quick tutorial by Aegidian -> [[OXP_howto_model]] | ||
* [http://codenautics.com/meshwork/ Meshwork] OSX; Free. <!-- [http://oolite.aegidian.org/cyoship/ Giles' HowTo] (link broken as at 24/02/2012) --> | * [http://codenautics.com/meshwork/ Meshwork] OSX; Free. <!-- [http://oolite.aegidian.org/cyoship/ Giles' HowTo] (link broken as at 24/02/2012) --> | ||
| + | * [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=298089#p298089 Modo] Cross Platform; Free. Has tutorials. | ||
* [http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=788 3D mesh editor] | * [http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=788 3D mesh editor] | ||
* [http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html Blender3D] Cross-platform, Free, powerful 3D modeller. | * [http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html Blender3D] Cross-platform, Free, powerful 3D modeller. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:55, 10 November 2024
Contents
Useful software to have when making an OXP.
Oolite specific converters
Ship models etc. need to be converted to Oolite's ".dat" format
3D model applications
- Wings3D Cross-platform; Free. Highly advised for Oolite. A quick tutorial by Aegidian -> OXP_howto_model
- Meshwork OSX; Free.
- Modo Cross Platform; Free. Has tutorials.
- 3D mesh editor
- Blender3D Cross-platform, Free, powerful 3D modeller.
- Moray
- UV Mapper (Pro), Mac and Windows, Texture mapping tool. Pro trial version for Windows available.
- xNormal This does certain things better than Blender, producing better quality normals, height, ambient occlusion. Windows only.
- Blacksmith3D-Paint Paint directly on to your model! It lets you paint straight over any seams in a manner that makes it very easy to see accurately which bits join exactly where. Windows and Mac.
- Normal Map Combiner This utility is designed to combine two normal maps into one and to fix bad normal vectors in auto generated normal maps. Windows only.
- Balancer Lite Windows + Mac. Features polygon reduction or mesh decimation for Wavefront (obj). Lite version is free for non-commercial purposes.
- Oolite is low-poly, so any user-friendly 3D editor will do, provided it supports DAT or OBJ.
Terrain Generation
Exported objects may need optimization.
- Blender Planet Textures
- Terragen Mac + Windows. Terrain generator with export option to obj. Free version for non-commerical use available.
- EarthSculptor Mac + Windows. Terrain generator with export option to obj. Free version for non-commerical use available.
- ?FracPlanet Linux.
Graphics Editors
- AdobePhotoshop
- Corel Paintshop Pro
- GIMP Free, cross-platform powerful image-editor.
- OmniGraffle OSX, Trial version available.
- any other freeware software that supports layers
- Filter Tools
Graphics Optimization
- OptiPNG Linux, Mac, Windows - Open-Source zlib/libpng License
- pngcrush Linux, Windows - OSI-Approved Open Source
Programmer's TextEditors or PlistEditors
- Crimson Editor
- Editplus
- JEdit
- SubEthaEdit (V2.2) (mac) - no syntax checkers for Javascript
- SlickEdit (mac)
- plistEdit V1.2
- VS Code Visual Studio Code (mac, Linux, Windows) - has a Javascipt syntax checker, optional add-ons include .plist syntaxes
- Programmers Notepad (windows) - has syntax checking for both javascript and xml
- PListEditPro, OSX, highly recommended to switch between ascii and XML...
- Notepad++, for Windows. Excellent Notepad replacement, with multi-language support.
- Script Editor, OSX, part of the AppleMac package that is installed by default.
- (g)Vim, a powerful cross-platform editor. A syntax highlighter for plist files is also available.
- Overview of editors for various operating systems
Linters
- cag's Python3 linter (catches missing ;'s, unquoted keys containing dashes, keys w/o values and delimiter errors) is here: bedeviled by missing ;'s? this may help (2018)
Audio Tools
- Audacity Cross platform, under GNU General Public License (GPL).
Support tools
- Debug OXP/Debug Menu OXP and other tools following the Oolite_debug_console_TCP_protocol
- Python Cross platform language under Python Software Foundation License. For Oolites tools 2.6 (not 3.x!!) is required.
There are plenty other free editors and tools available, these are just a few.
