CisLunarFreighter/Open source tools
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Scriptwriting
edit- OpenOffice
StoryBoarding
edit- GIMP - Graphics Image Manipulation Program is useful for a wide variety of graphics image tasks including creating tilesets and sprites, translating file formats, and creating background and foreground stills and masks.
- Inkscape
PDF File Creation
edit- OpenOffice - A productivity desktop suite. Contains word processor which will create and export a pdf file. Useful for storyboarding. One file contains all pictures and text.
Modeling
edit- Art of Illusion - An easy to learn powerful 3D modeling and animation environment. There are few import/export paths for this program but it is written in Java with an extensible object oriented framework. Probably worth reading the code for graphical programming techniques and possibly classes.
- w:Blender_(software) - A 3D modeling and animation suite with additional capabilities to support game programming. It has been confirmed that blender will import 3ds files. Exporting from a now out dated version of 3DSMax to 3ds and imported into Blender3D has been accomplished successfully. An external introduction to blender set of video tutorials.[1]. Wikibooks has several online books on Blender.b:Blender
- Make Human - Allow for quick and detailed modeling humans.
Sound Clip/Track Editing
edit- Audacity - An open source sound processing tool.
Still Art Editing/Creation
edit- GIMP
- Inkscape - An open source illustration program.
Game Engines/Tools
edit- Arianne - An open source 2D massive multiplayer online role playing game engine.
- HiperGL - Game Framework - Framework for hardware accelerated 2D graphics.
- Crystalspace3d - a 3d game engine
- ImageJ - Written in Java this is an image processor focused on Scientific processing. It may also be useful for lifting techniques for graphics programming using the Java standard library.
- Panda3D - A BSD-licenced 3D graphics and game engine.
Code version/build/test/programming tools
edit- Ant - A build and test automation tool. Has worked well so far with Beans and jFreeRails and ImageJ. Well worth someone learning to package our distribution effectively.
- ArgoUML - An open source UML editor. I have seen it alleged that this does not yet implement the full UML specification. Anybody who can illuminate us please do so here.
- Beans IDE - This is a very sophisticated and so far robust integrated development environment. It works well with ANT. I have successfully compiled and tested ImageJ and jFreerails using the build xml files that came with them.
- JVM - The Java Virtual Machine platform runs on most desktop or better hardware, making it ideal for widespread distribution of our applets.
- 3D No Plugin - Uses Java and python to display 3D models online without plugins. A little slow. Useful for model evaluation
Information available at other projects
edithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Dream This article on the FOSS short creation process has a list of tools used within the project.