Tools are small to medium size programs that help you in a game development process.
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What is “tools development?”
I have been looking at different jobs in the games industry and a lot of the jobs that I have seen advertised are for a "Tool Developer" position. I do not know what this actually is.
Could someone ...
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How to align sprites from a non-aligned sprite sheet?
When I deal with sprite sheets, I have to cut each sprite and adjust their offsets by hard.
This is too much work, so I've made a tool that does the following:
Analyze the image, detecting bounding ...
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Installing PhysicsFS on Mingw
I am trying to install PhysicsFS (icculus.org/physfs/) on my Win 7 with MinGW. But I am having hard time doing it. I googled it as well but still nothing - I have used linux environment and make ...
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Mobile game production workflow using Html5 and visual studio
I want to know of any framework, that lets you build/test applications inside Visual Studio using Html5/JS. We need to be able to have an emulator (like the one on android sdk) for as many devices as ...
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A good 2D game creator to Linux which requires no language knownledge?
Pardon me, I know it's important know a programming language to develop games, however I'm looking for a game creator to make games for Linux. Construct Classic from Scirra is a nice 2D game creator, ...
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Sprites: Are there any tools to scale sprites individually without using Photoshop/GIMP? [closed]
I am using TexturePacker as tool to pack my 2D sprites, it is good but it doesn't provide the possibility to scale individual sprites to a specific scale.
I am wondering whether there is any good ...
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GLSL Editor and Debugger for MacOSX with ES2 support
is there a GLSL editor for the mac? I need it for iOS OpenGLES2 shader.
How do you best debug shader?
Regards
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What tools should I consider if my aim is to make a game available to as many platforms as possible?
We're planning on developing a 2D, grid-based puzzle game, and although it's still very early in the planning stages, we'd like to make our decisions well from the beginning.
Our strategy will be to ...
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How can I ease the work of getting pixel coordinates from a spritesheet?
When it comes to spritesheets they're usually easier to use, and they're very efficient memory-wise, but the problem that I'm always having is getting the actual position of a sprite from a sheet. ...
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What is a good tool for producing animated sprites? [closed]
Has anyone come across a software package that allows you to build animations in a similar way to how you can in Flash (i.e. using techniques such as tweens & bones & easings, etc) and then ...
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D20 java engine
I'm trying to incorporate PCGen into my application to avoid recreating the
wheel for D20 system. (Are there any other libraries out there?)
In other words I would like to use PCGen as a library and ...
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SFXR-Like Tool for Speech
Sfxr (and also Bfxr) is a great tool for generating sound-effects for games. Is there something like this for speech synthesis?
Not every game development tool and platform has a speech synthesis ...
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How to edit specific mipmap images in a DDS?
I am looking for a way to edit individual mipmaps within a DDS file. To my knowledge, the NVidia Plugin only lets you create the largest image and then computes the smaller ones automatically. ...
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How do I prototype an online game?
I would like to know if you guys know of any libraries, engines, or even simply design patterns that heavily simplify the task of sharing information and sending of messages between networked ...
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3D Paint tool in Maya
Hey everyone, could someone help me out on this question?
When I am trying to texture objects in maya (for example a barrel) I want to texture it with a brush. When I try to use the 3D painting tool ...
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Tool to create a bitmap font from a true type font
What tool do you use to convert ttf fonts to bitmap fonts?
Following is a list of features I'm looking for. I'd be happy with any tool really, but one that had these features would be better.
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What level editor is Phil Fish using in Indie Game: The Movie?
Does anyone know what program Phil Fish is using to edit models of levels? Or is it it something he built himself? I'm new to game development and was looking for something to design levels with ...
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Tools for creating 2d tile based maps
What are some tools I can use to create 2d tile based maps?
Please provide the information below, and try to limit to one tool per answer.
Name
Link to website
General features
Export format
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How can I develop Flash games without expensive software?
I've been playing with writing flash games in my spare time, but up to this point, I've just been using a trial version of Adobe Flash Professional. I'm aware of FlashDevelop, but their documentation ...
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Need an engine for MMO mockup
What I don't need is an MMORPG engine, at the moment.
What I do need is a flexible easy-to-use engine that I can make a mock-up with. I don't need support for more than 10 players in an instance, so ...
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A tool to select points on texture, and obtain 0.0f .. 1.0f UV coordinates
If there is a need to create about 40 sets of UV coordinates for 40 different images. The sets can have 4 to ~16 UV points. Is there some way to make this easier?
A tool similar to Inkscape would be ...
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Problem with Ogmo Editor (is Tiled Editor a solution?)
I made a level editor for a puzzle game with Ogmo Editor and gave it to our designer/level designer. When he downloaded and started Ogmo, his CPU went to 100%. I looked at my CPU usage while Ogmo is ...
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forum for finding pertinent tools/libs/platforms [closed]
I'm looking for a forum where I can ask questions about what the best graphics library would be for my particular C# application given my requirements. I'm considering several.
This is directly ...
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Are there tools for testing multiplayer code?
Are there reliable tools that can simulate real life-like network conditions e.g. networks with different bandwidth, different latencies, packet loss etc...?
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How to use particle editor for libgdx?
In the libgdx wiki, this particle editor is recommended. And this blog was helpful. But the problem is that I am not sure yet how to use it for my game. Let's say I want to have a fire-effect in my ...
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How can I unpack a sprite sheet into multiple images?
I need to take a sprite sheet and convert it into multiple images, one for each frame of the sprite sheet.
How should I go about this? I would prefer an offline method or a tool to do so -- I found ...
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Are there tools available for building hierarchical sprite-based objects in games like Vector Man or Gunstar Heroes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for 2D skeletal animation
I'm looking for a tool that would let me build multi-part sprite objects of the kind you can find in Sega Genesis games like Vector Man ...
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Sprite sheet generator
I need to generate a sprite sheet with squared sprite for a 2D game. How can I generate a sprite sheet where each frame has x = y? The only think I have to do is to "insert" some blank space between ...
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Early stages of games development - create 2d animation images for iOS games?
I am in the early stages of developing a game. I don't have an artist or graphics person on board yet. How can I create simple images for animation to work through the early stages of game ...
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What do you use to create sprite graphics? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tools do you use for 2D art/sprite creation?
What do you folks suggest for creating sprite graphics and sprite sheets?
I fiddle with pixelformer and tilestudio.
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Shader authoring/editing tools for GLSL ES
Since Render Monkey has been discontinued (perhaps due to the complexity of today's shading languages), there are few successors that can match its functionality. Is there any useful tool for material ...
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Started game development no idea of computer graphics. Should I learn tools or concepts?
I am in 6th semester of my Computer science bachelor degree program, Working as Intern in a start up company. I started game development using AndEngine, things are going good because I have good hold ...
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Intercepting DirectX calls and optimizing the overal performance of games
I would like to use a DirectX proxy dll to intercept (and possibly optimize) the graphics calls being made by normal PC games. I am going to "screen cast" a game with ffmpeg or something similar and ...
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Framework to implement an in game gui editor
I need to do an in game gui editor. The game engine has his own widgets elements and I don't want a gui library that substitute it.
The most difficult task is the implementation of the functionality ...
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Is there a command line ATI texture compression tool?
Is there a command line tool that can convert PNG and JPG files to ATITC compressed textures?
I have my own export pipeline that converts all textures to PVRTC, ATITC, and DXT, so I have no use for a ...
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Using model tools as map editor
I want to make a game which would require a 3D map editor. Of course, I would like to avoid creating such an editor. My idea is now to use modeling tools (3DS Max, Maya, Blender) to create the map, ...
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using OGRE with a GUI kit [closed]
I am currently working on a level editor for my game. The rendering in the editor will be done by Ogre3d however I'm still unsure which GUI kit I should pick, so I wanted to ask whether anyone has ...
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Are bounding volumes created by artists?
I'm interested in where in the tool chain bounding boxes are created. Are they made by the artists? In the modeling tool? How are they exported? Can Maya/3DS Max/Blender/... mark geometry as bounding ...
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Is there an SDK to write console apps to simulate an Xbox 360 controller?
Is there any SDK I can use to write a console app that can connect to an Xbox 360 as a controller and simulate controller interaction?
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Implementing Tools in a Toolkit
I've been building a toolkit for my game and recently decided I needed a history system as well as clean out the mountain of event handlers building up in my code. To do this, I've started using ...
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Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare modding?
I'm seeing a lot of Modern Warfare (the first one) mods out there, and I've come across at least one post that says that Activision released official modding tools for CoD4, but I can't seem to find ...
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What are the tools, programming languages and development processes of AAA games? [closed]
Only thing I am able to find about "big" games like ac, hl, bf, cod is engine used to run the game. But I am interested in what software development methodology, programming and scripting languages ...
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tile based 2d level editor [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for creating 2d tile based maps
I am Indie Game developer and I am looking for a tile based 2d level editor. I also would like to know the free ones as well as ...
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Tools for assembling textures into DDS files
There are plenty of tools for making images. I'm not looking for one of those; I have many tools for creating an image. I've got tools for compressing images, generating mipmaps, and even for poking ...
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How far can you get with Garry's Mod and no money? [closed]
My sixth-grader is very interested in FPS game development but I don't think he has grasped the magnitude of the task ahead. He is a Halo fan and so his current goal is to make a similar game but ...
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Tool to convert Textures to power of two?
I'm currently porting a game to a new platform, the problem being that the old platform accepted non power of two textures and this new platform doesn't.
To add to the headache, the new platform has ...
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What is the best digital audio editing software for sound effects for games [closed]
What is the best audio editing software to edit sound effects for simple games, like beeps, chimes, taps, button clicks etc.
I'm a noob so I will prefer an easy and cheap one before I delve deep ...
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Level design: compute minimum time between two items for player traversal
Do any game toolsets offer a means of computing the minimum time it would take a player to move between two objects (or positions, more generally) in a level? I'm not asking about how one would go ...
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Interesting/Innovative Open Source tools for indie games [closed]
Just out of curiosity, I want to know opensource tools or projects that can add some interesting features to indie games, preferably those that could only be found on big-budget games.
EDIT: As ...
