Free software for content creation

Tomcat

Character Generator — MakeHuman

Allows you to save the result (human figure) in different formats or export directly to Blender.

MH into Godot tutorial
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Building Creation — Sweet Home 3D

You can export a building in .OBJ format.

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Tree Generator — Tree It

Allows you to save the result in different formats.

Now paid, but the free old version is still available. ❗️

Plant Generation Software Packages

fire7side

Yeah, I use MakeHuman and TreeIt. There are also some architectural plugins in Blender which make buildings easier to do.

DaveTheCoder

Does MakeHuman allow or facilitate moving the character's joints? I glanced quickly at the documentation, but that wasn't immediately clear.

fire7side

@DaveTheCoder said: Does MakeHuman allow or facilitate moving the character's joints? I glanced quickly at the documentation, but that wasn't immediately clear.

You can download it with a skeleton. The problem I had with that is that the clothes are super high poly. You can choose a lower poly skin, though. What I did was decimate the clothes so they were lower poly and then reskinned it with the rigify skeleton. Another thing you can do is upload it to mixamo and choose a mixamo animation and it will export it with a skeleton. You just position the elbows, etc. There is a plugin for combining mixamo skeletons in blender, I think. So I guess, if you know Blender a little bit, you can get by all right, but you may have problems otherwise. Actually, I picked a slightly higher poly model and everything came out better.

Tomcat

@DaveTheCoder said:
Does MakeHuman allow or facilitate moving the character's joints? I glanced quickly at the documentation, but that wasn't immediately clear.

If I understood the question correctly, MakeHuman allows you to assign different rigs to the model. You can even make your own.

@fire7side said:
The problem I had with that is that the clothes are super high poly.

MakeHuman is mainly designed for artistic rendering of videos and pictures with high quality, but there are low-polygonal models suitable for making games.

Gowydot

MakeHuman can export Low Poly and Rig for games. It export Rig as .dae. then you can import it to blender, animate and export as .gltf to Godot. You can "maybe" browse MakeHuman Assets for low poly clothings but I'm not sure (because It's user contribution ).

I ticked these when import to blender

Disclaimer though I don't use this workflow I just tested it. I usually do my own mesh and rig

Tomcat

MPFB 2.0 alpha 1 has been released

MPFB 2.0-alpha1 A plugin for Blender based on MakeHuman to create a human character.

You can quickly create a new humanoid mesh on the “New Human” -> “From scratch” panel. Basic phenotype features can be set. They can then later be modified dynamically on the created mesh.

Tomcat

Experimenting with MPFB 2

Tomcat

MakeHuman's character creation and animation capabilities:

duane

@Tomcat

Seriously uncanny valley. /shudder

Tomcat

Game Texture Viewer Now Free

Game Texture Viewer is a texture viewing and management application for game development that was just acquired by JangaFX and made available for free. If you are interested in trying out Game Texture Viewer, simply download the trial and activate with the product key: GPG7-33NS-KJ2K-CKGT.

Game Texture Viewer is available here.

cybereality

If you are doing anime games, you can try VRoid Studio. It's very easy to customize a character, like a video game, but the graphics look a little dated. Also, you have to do animation with another package. I used DeepMotion, but this was just a quick test, it needs a lot of work.

Tomcat

@cybereality said: If you are doing anime games, you can try VRoid Studio. It's very easy to customize a character, like a video game, but the graphics look a little dated.

I've been meaning to check it out for a long time — thanks for the reminder :)

In terms of character customization capabilities it reminds me of the generators from Illusion:

AI Shoujo Character Creation

Unfortunately, the resulting character is not very easy to transfer to a 3D modeling program.

I suppose a good idea would be to create a similar character generator in Godot with the ability to export to more popular formats for use in games. It could be based on MakeHuman.

cybereality

VRoid is okay, but nowhere near the quality of the Illusion games.

Tomcat

All good things come to an end. Tree It is no longer free, although you can still download the old free version, but the tree library is no longer available.

For financial reasons I have decided that all further updateds will only be available through steam version of tree it, you can still download older versions for free. I would like to thank you for support me by purchasing the steam version.

Theses trees now come with Tree It on steam.

If anyone knows a free vegetation generator, please let me know.

trizZzle

Tomcat That's unfortunate but the price is really low with 3,75€ in my location. I guess other locations won't differ that much?
The only downside is to use steam.

Megalomaniak

Tomcat A bit of a shame. I think it would have been potentially more profitable for the author to create a asset store and sell first party assets as well as for a small publishing fee let users sell assets on the store too keeping tree it free, but it is what it is I suppose...

Tomcat

trizZzle The only downside is to use steam.

This is the most compelling downside. Besides the categorical unwillingness to get involved with a totalitarian system, there is another extremely important argument. My project is supposed to be open. Players should be able to create and freely share content. Including vegetation (trees). Therefore, the use of any paid programs is excluded completely. No matter how much they cost.

trizZzle

Tomcat I see your point.

What about creating your own plant generation tool?

Tomcat

I found this.

Plant Generation Software Packages

But it's something I have to deal with.

Tomcat

Megalomaniak I think it would have been potentially more profitable for the author to create a asset store and sell first party assets as well

That's how it used to be, the program is free, but you could buy sets of trees. Apparently it wasn't profitable.

trizZzle What about creating your own plant generation tool?

I guess that's not the way for me…

Secondly, doing this requires a background in math and botany. Which one I'm worse at, I'm not sure which one I'm worse at. Some of these programs are designed by professional botanists.
And first, I'm working on a character generator right now (hope to publish something soon). Then there are plans (a silly term for the Slavic ear - "roadmap") for buildings and animals. Changing terrain of the earth's surface. Everywhere I take as a basis something ready-made. And only then vegetation.