Saturday, March 22, 2008

Make a human with MakeHuman

Makehuman is a free tool for 3d character modeling. I kind a don't like it and the rough features it creates but in more skillful hands it can be a very useful tool.

http://www.dedalo-3d.com/

Two online books for java game development

The first is Killer Game Programming in Java at http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/.
Really good book for 2d and 3d Java game development.

The second is Pro Java 6 3D Game Development at http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg2/

Friday, March 21, 2008

Art of Illusion – cute 3d modeling and rendering studio.

When once I just randomly searched sourceforge for anything related to games I ran onto Art of Illusion. It is a free open-source project written in Java. It has very easy to understand interface and some really nice tutorials. It is unbelievable how fast someone can start work with it in contrast with almost all the other tools for 3d modeling. I recommend it to anyone even just for fun.
http://www.artofillusion.org/