Guide:Assets
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Kinds
3-D Models
- 123dapp - Models from 3-D scanners and simple modelling tools.
- "Kawaii" Tank (Tiger-I) - Tank model with flexible tracks on the Unity asset store. Not actually v kawaii ;)
Fonts
- Font Library - Libre fonts.
- free-fonts - Libre fonts.
- Font Squirrel
- The League of Moveable Type - Libre fonts, pretentios website ;3
- VTF - Libre fonts.
General Images
- Image*After
- PUB•DOM•OR•DIE
- 50,000 Ultimate Web Graphics on archive.org
Music
- Archive Team: The Geocities MIDI Collection - A large collection of MIDI filces recused from Geocities.
- Royalty-Free Music by Kevin MacLeod. Licence: CC BY 3.0
Palettes
RPG Maker Related
- GrandmaDebsLittleBits
- Crum: Asset Pack for Marek & Co. - Big pile of different things.
Shaders
HLSL
High-Level Shading Language, used in Unity.
- Unity 5.x Shaders and Effects Cookbook, authors both have free tutes:
- 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.
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 :)
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
Sprites
- SpriteLib
- Pixel Monster Bot - Great little mons.
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 ;)
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 Archives 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.
