Free for Commercial Use Programs?

DefoNotMike

Hello everyone, I thought it could be beneficial to the community to make a post about free for commercial use programs in the game development industry. I know I probably sound like a cheap guy who doesn't want to pay for anything, but I am currently a student and have educational licenses for many of the industry standard programs, but I cannot use them commercially. Not everyone can afford huge subscription costs so if people were interested I thought this could be a place to share ideas and knowledge about free for commercial use programs for modeling, texturing, rendering etc. Thanks again everyone

musashidan

In the same spirit of sharing, why not go first and share what you've learned so far........

IndieRespawn

Ill bite

FREE SOFTWARE:

Blender: https://www.blender.org/

Sculptris: https://www.pixologic.com/

SculptGL: https://stephaneginier.com/

Xnormal: https://www.xnormal.net/

Handplane Baker: https://gumroad.com/l/znpF

Dust 3D: https://github.com/huxingyi/dust3d

NeoBarok: https://www.neobarok.com/

Wings3d: https://www.wings3d.com/

Maya Edu: https://www.autodesk.com/ (requires edu email cannot use commercially but allows for learning use)

Awesome Bump: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump

PLUGINS:

NgSkinTools: www.ngskintools.com/
Mgear: www.gumroad.com/l/mgear#

Eric Chadwick

Free does not mean free for commercial use. Read the EULAs.

Alex_J

DefoNotMike said:

Not everyone can afford huge subscription costs 

Neither can anybody afford to provide a service, grow it into a business, hire and maintain a substantial professional workforce, and then let any random person piggy-back on all that work for nothing. Everybody has to eat, not just you.