morduun's big list of content generators

game content generators

welcome to morduun's big ol' list of content generation programs. originally intended to span the length and breadth of content generation in games, I've instead focused on free and low-cost solutions to help facilitate new, independent teams that are high on energy, but maybe a little low on cash. Hit the buttons to switch between low-cost and no-cost options, and feel free to mail me with additions to the list.

NO-COST	LO-COST
3D MODELLING	2D IMAGES	MUSIC	SOUND	VIDEO	PLANNING	MISC

IMAGE EDITING

GIMP - full-featured 2D editor
IMAGEFORGE - full-featured 2D editor
PAINTER - full-featured 2D editor
EMBELLISH - full-featured 2D editor - company out of business, get it while you can

PIXEL ART

PRO PIXEL - DPaint-like 2D editor (go Snarty!)
D-PIXED - 256-color pixel editor
IDRAW - pixel editor

TEXTURE TOOLS

ILLUSIONAE - procedural texture generator
STILE99 - seamless texture tool

HEIGHTMAP / TERRAIN TOOLS

WILBUR - nice heightmap generator
TEXTURE GENERATION - AWESOME generator of texture maps for heightmaps
TERRAGEN - nice skybox/backdrop generator

MISCELLANEOUS

ZPAINT - cool GUI generator
FONTTOOL - generates bitmap from windows font
TILE STUDIO - generates layered tilemap data from tilesets
WALLY - texture librarian / editor
WINMORPH - morphs between one 2D image to another

game content generators

NO-COST

LO-COST

3D MODELLING

2D IMAGES

MUSIC

SOUND

VIDEO

PLANNING

MISC

IMAGE EDITING

PIXEL ART

TEXTURE TOOLS

HEIGHTMAP / TERRAIN TOOLS

MISCELLANEOUS