Any free 3d Game creation programs out there?

aldrnari7635 · Oct 2017

I would like to make a 3d game that can be exported as a .swf or html5 file. The websites I would like to export my game file only accept those kinds of uploads. Does anyone know of 100% game creating engines out there I can use? Please try to avoid pay-make game creators and game creators that I can upload to thier site. I am looking for completely free ones. Thank you for your time.

pmiller001 · Oct 2017

Unreal?
Unity?
How do you mean "completely free" because i thought those two qualified.

Joopson · Oct 2017

aldrnari7635 said:

I would like to make a 3d game that can be exported as a .swf or html5 file.

Not sure. You can still make 2D games in flash, if you know your way around coding in actionscript. There might even be game templates out there to download, if you look around a lot.

Not sure if any engine can export a 3D game to swf or html5 alone. Seems unlikely to be honest, unless the file size is unbelievably huge.

ZacD · Oct 2017

UE4 does have an HTML5 build option, but every example I've seen takes for ever to load.

Joopson · Oct 2017

ZacD said:

UE4 does have an HTML5 build option, but every example I've seen takes for ever to load.

Do you happen to know if everything is included in the HTML5 file, or if it needs to reference some foldered file structure that you'd also need to upload?

I ask since they're talking about a website only accepting those file types; it likely wouldn't allow folders, etc.

RN · Oct 2017

A game built for web is usually a folder structure containing assets. These assets include an index.html file that shows your game player, the javascript files with the game source code as well as the models, images and sounds.
You need to keep this directory structure intact (even when hosted online) so that the game source code can load the assets based on relative file paths.

The upload process to an online game publisher is supplying them with a zip of that folder structure. On their end, they'll take care of hosting the files and embedding your index file inside one of their own pages for serving your game to people.
- https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-building.html
- https://www.blend4web.com/doc/en/project_manager.html#project-deploy

kio · Oct 2017

I do feel that both unity and unreal are way too bloated for this kinda stuff. You'll probably need something much simpler..

Maybe babylon.js or three.js might fit in here. Sorry it's not going to be easy..but well gamedev is hard.

Butthair · Oct 2017

So Torque3D is open source right? That means free?

RN · Oct 2017

Yeah, Torque3D is MIT-licensed, you can make a desktop game with it and keep the source code to yourself.

Any free 3d Game creation programs out there?

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