Guide:Assets

Free resources to help you put games together!

Sometimes these pages dissapear, some times the free selection's really limited. If stuff's not actually useful feel free to delete.

Kinds

3-D Models

• 123dapp - Models from 3-D scanners and simple modelling tools.
• Kawaii Tanks - Tank model with flexible tracks on the Unity asset store. Not actually v kawaii ;)
• A Large Dataset of Object Scans - 3-D scans, in .PLY format (can open in MeshLab and Blender.
• NASA 3D Resources - Space things on the Internet Archive.
• Blend Swap
• Low Poly Cars
• Sweet Home 3D - list of places with free resources.

Fonts

• Font Library - Libre fonts.
• free-fonts - Libre fonts.
• Font Squirrel
• The League of Moveable Type - Libre fonts, pretentious website ;3
• VTF - Libre fonts.
• bitfontmaker2/gallery - Fonts made with Bitfontmaker2.

General Images

• Image*After
• PUB•DOM•OR•DIE
• 50,000 Ultimate Web Graphics on archive.org
• Corel Gallery 1,000,000 on archive.org
• CorelGALLERY 1.3 million pictures - 16 CDs (Win95) on archive.org
• watering a flower art assets - CC0, atribution appreciated. From the game watering a flower

Music

• Royalty-Free Music by Kevin MacLeod. Licence: CC BY 3.0
• nosoapradiotracks - Music bits (Google Drive)
• RMN Music Pack - Music from the rpgmaker.net community.
• Free Music Archive

MIDI

• Archive Team: The Geocities MIDI Collection - A large collection of MIDI filces recused from Geocities.
• vanBasco's MIDI Search
• artscene.textfiles.com/music/midi/
• My Music page on Luli Site (Wayback Machine).
• Russian Midi Page!
• John Torp's Music - Original Midi

Samples

• 90s' Sample CDs
• Free MIDI Chords - Okay, not actually samples, but an open-source repository of MIDI chords.

Palettes

• gamemaking.tools/downloads/assets/Palettes/

RPG Maker Related

• GrandmaDebsLittleBits
• Crum: Asset Pack for Marek & Co. - Big pile of different things.
• RPG Maker 2003 Monsters by everythingstaken

Shaders

HLSL

High-Level Shading Language, used in Unity.

• Unity 5.x Shaders and Effects Cookbook, authors both have free tutes:
  • Alan Zucconi
  • Kenneth Lammers
• UCLA Wireframe Shader
• Advanced Wireframe Shader
• Screen Space Fluids
• Star Nest Skybox
• Free shaders on the Unity Asset Store
• Retro3D - PlayStation-like shader. 'Basically, it's a kind of unlit shader, but also reduces the precision of geometric operations, and cancels the perspective correction for texture mapping.'
  • Versions with lighting: github.com/GuiglParty/Stage-Fright/tree/master/Assets/Retro3D
  • Flashback '94 - Another PSX-y shader set ($20).
  • psx_retroshader - Another one.
  • com.hauntedpsx.render-pipelines.psx - Most advanced one, not just a shader.

GLSL

OpenGL Shading Language, used in Godot (kinda). Godot 2 had a visual shader editor, and I believe this is in development for Godot 3.1 :)

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Converters

Tools for converting shaders between languages

• HLSL to GLSL Converter
• HLSL to GLSL Source Converter
• Unity Shadertoys (a.k.a Converting GLSL shaders to Cg/HLSL) - info

See Also

• shadertoy.com - Browse free shaders. Pretty demanding website D:

Sound Effects

• BBC Sound Effects
• Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis - Music Radar.
• FREE Retro Arcade Video Game Sound Effects
• freetousesounds.com - Guy's field recordings. Are they actually free?
  • freetousesounds on Bandcamp.

Sprites

• SpriteLib
• Pixel Monster Bot - Great little mons.
• The Spriters Resource - Graphic rips (and some edits) from games.
• videogamesprites.net

Textures / Tiles

• 1078 Weird Textures (there's a ZIP of all the textures in the subfolder there too)
• lsdtexs Rip of textures from LSD Dream Emulator. Can't remember where I found them :(
• Decorative Papers, found by the community from the Mechanical Curator Collection
• Genetica Texture Packs They're in an odd format (.GTX), but can be converted with a program on the site (I should convert and upload these). You can also just download versions of them, one-by-one as .JPG files.
• Textures.com. You can limit your search to textures that tile seemlessly, but not everything seems to be filed correctly. Has a nice preview feature too. You'll have to either use 'view page info' or an adblocker to bypass their little download protection ;)
• Hex World: Realistic Hex Textures for Maps
• ＥＭ－Ｓｑｕａｒｅ Ｐａｔｔｅｒｎｓ - SVG tiling patterns.
• Sweet Home 3D - list of places with free resources.
• Sprite Walls - drawings by Clyde.
• Zanzindorf - From photos.

See Also

• The Asset Creation section of the wiki, for tools to help you make your own.
• search.creativecommons.org
• Unity's Asset Store
• Free and not-free assets on itch.io
• opengameart.org
• Has Graphics
• GifCities - Internet Archive's Geocities archive GIF search
• Soundimage.org - Music, sounds, textures. Attribution licence.
• Faces for your RPG Characters
• post.lurk.org/@wendy/100734030623295814 - Mastodon thread with CC resources.
• Artlantis 3D Resources
• Game Creator's Pack - Creative Commons asset pack
• Share CG
• slackermedia.info/sprints/ - Directory of all sorts of things.
• Assets by Kenny
• scrapheap - Github repo with a bunch of different things.
• musty old scraps - Various things from unfinished games, by hugs.
• Useful Resources on the Clickteam website. Sounds, graphics, and some links to other places.