Free for Commercial Use Programs?

DefoNotMike · Jun 2018

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 · Jun 2018

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

IndieRespawn · Jun 2018

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 · Jun 2018

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

Alex_J · Jun 2018

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.

Free for Commercial Use Programs?

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