Difference between revisions of "Techlinks"

Revision as of 14:08, 25 December 2008

here i want to mirror the tech-link-list from the iris wiki, in case that goes down... the original is here : http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Links

digital content creation

This part is about creating Models, Textures, Musik, etc for Ogre and Iris.

• Blender setup to work with Ogre
• Free 3D Texture Tools for Windows
• Skinny (a small but nice Blender script, for rapid automatic mesh-generation for animated characters, rigging & UV-Mapping) Examples
• Shader Examples From ogre wiki
• Content Creation Tools From ogre wiki
• Content Creation Tutorials From ogre wiki
• Songs
• Static 3D-Models need
• Ground Textures need
• texturemaker
• rendermonkey (see also rmogreexporter in ogre addons)
• mapzoneeditor texturing tool
• animal print patterns pack
• 3D-Studio Max: Tutorial to build a medival House
• 3dtutorials (Creating a Head)

• cgtextures - FreeTextures1
• psicosonic - FreeTextures2

• lmms musik
• rosegarden musik (see also Wired, Aldrin, UbuntuStudio)
• http://voxfeminae.planetquake.gamespy.com/tutorials/ sound creation tutorials (seems to be dead, author email : mailto:hellchick@planetquake.com)
• http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/ musik

• http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon/introversion/viewtopic.php?p=37268 city generator

searching content

• http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Resources linklist in ogre wiki
• CC search
• LowPolyCoop open content + blog
• FreeGameArts
• OMN
• tilesets
• Psionic's 3D Game Resources > Free 3D Models
• http://virtualworlds.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Wikiworlds: Open content wiki
• http://www.digitalboneyard.net/ Digital Boneyard: Dump your old stuff here :)
• http://www.e2-productions.com/bmr/ Blender 3D Model Repository: Stuff made with Blender3D
• http://www.bvhfiles.com/ Free bvh files: Motion capture data
• http://www.nordquistart.com/: Free Art for you
• http://www.jamendo.com/de/ creative commons music
• http://www.wolfiesden.com/golgotha/golgotha.asp golgotha textures
• http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
• http://ccmixter.org/ (sound?music?)
• http://www.opsound.org/
• http://www.findsounds.com/
• http://ati.amd.com/developer/shaderx/ShaderX_NPR.pdf (celshading and pencil/crayon-drawing shaders)

gui systems for ogre

• Navi - uses the LLMozLib library to render HTML based GUIs
• BetaGUI 2 - betajaen's overlay-based GUI system now has a new theme system using CSS styles
• QuickGUI is another overlay-based GUI system that concentrates on simplicity
• see also Ogre

physics

• bullet-phys-engine demo video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InEmXyaX4Ew

shaders

• http://frustum.org/3d/
• http://esprit.campus.luth.se/~humus/3D/
• http://sfz.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/CellShadingNotes
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32906&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= three kingdoms watershader showcase
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2138.asp watershader article
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=83#203 lots of articles on shaders
• http://download.nvidia.com/developer/presentations/2004/6800_Leagues/6800_Leagues_SM3_Best_Practices.pdf nvidia geometry instancing : shader 3.0
• http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2007/Habel_2007_IAG/ grass

3d and graphical techniques

• http://moquette.hybird.org/trac
• http://www.fxpression.com/GalleryParticleUniverse.html ogre particle plugin
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30275&start=150&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= building shader for interior mapping (rooms, walls ceiling without geometry)
• http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Displacements halflife displacements, like a more flexible heightfield
• http://www.duskengine.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=21 ogre mesheditor v1.0
• ogre wiki digest
• Paper about procedual texture generation from the demoscene
• normal-map-generation
• Alpha mapping + normal mapping material script
• irrlicht material library
• cubic texture for normal mapping
• normal mapping
• bumpmapping and normal mapping in ogre
• Offset Bump Ambient Lightmap
• PerPixel Lighting with Offset(Parallax) Mapping
• fur shader
• water shader
• forest
• billboard clouds
• instancing
• impostor
• impostor2
• projective decals
• SpriteManager2d
• ManualObject_2D
• stencil glow/halo
• tile terrain
• tile terrain screenshots
• http://www.forgottenworld.de/TBT/ ogre tiled terrain 2
• LiSPSM (light space perspective shadow maps) shadows
• Caelum : day and night cycles
• bloom
• post processing example
• optimizing render-speed
• optimizing render-speed 2
• old granny viewer
• ogre3d on ps3
• ogre efficient gui
• texture splatting
• ogre planetary scene manager
• tree
• tree 2
• tree/billboard
• ogre mesh tree
• fresnel shader (fog + normal mapping) : water
• Portal Connected Zone Scene Manager
• http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103830 shield effect
• http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Light_mapping
• http://www.tar.hu/gamealgorithms/index.html core techniques and algorithms for games
• http://www.realtimerendering.com/ realtime rendering resources
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27394 fully destructible
• http://levelofdetail.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/hardware-accelerated-ambient-occlusion-techniques-on-gpus/ ambient occulsion shader for trees
  • http://download.nvidia.com/developer/SDK/Individual_Samples/DEMOS/OpenGL/src/dynamic_amb_occ/docs/214_gems2_ch14.pdf
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37072&highlight= Planetary Atmospheric Scattering
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36655 PagedGeometry : manages masses of objects (grass,trees), uses impostor
• http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=468418 triplanar mapping for texture
• grass screenshot in xbox game
• ogre mipmapping problems opengl
• http://apricot.blender.org/?p=192 blender realtime terrain texture editing (splatting,stencil?)
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=42507 ogre terrain editor
• http://www.umbrasoftware.com/index.php?videoreel video showing occulsion culling
• http://developer.nvidia.com/object/doc_shadows.html Real-time Shadow Algorithms and Techniques
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2q5kuic6HA Locomotion System, walking animation system, step, stairs etc. runevision.com unity3d.com
• lugaru blood
• Euphoria 3d Ragdoll Engine by Natural Motion
• normalmap from photos
• alienarena normalmaps
• GIMP normalmap plugin

interesting links

• Explicitly triggering the Garbage Collector
• Bitwise Operations and other LUA patches
• GetTicks als SDL Ersatz?
• uo-guide
• runuo map howto
• ogre hardware cursor
• hardware cursor : win32 api function SetCursor
• ogreopcode forum
• procedural building generation
• audiere sound lib, LGPL, ogg, mp3
• Projects using OGRE
• How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
• MicroPather pathfinding lib
• the-myth-of-the-developer-royalty
• voice system
• http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/HowTos
• http://simul.co.uk/cloudwright panorama sky, volumetric clouds
• http://www.opengameforge.org/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Real-Time_Procedural_Universe procedural
• http://www.opengameforge.org/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Resources city, terrain
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/ogremp boost replacement for threading, meant for ogre
• http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/continuous-world.htm continuous-world
• http://www.wowwiki.com/Widget_API wow api for scripting gui stuff

coding references

• c and c++
• STL
• iostream
• Lua5.0
• Lua5.1
• ProgrammingInLua

Compilers

• Virtual PC Image with Windows Vista, Office2007 and Visual Studio 2007 (Orcas beta)

uo related

• Documentation
• ultima-sdk-binaries-source
• Patch_Introduction_Into_MUL
• http://www.runuo.com/forums/playuo-krrios-client/89100-playuo-guide.html

my ogre notes

see Ogre

• http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/dc/threading/331359.htm