Tools / Software
The Game Institute provides proprietary software to enhance your training. While our curriculum focuses on the implementation side of the development process, familiarity with level design tools and related 3D game creation software promotes understanding of the overall game building experience and is an important skill for candidates seeking industry employment. Some of these tools from level design software to 3D game creation software are included free with all courses, while others will be made available only in select courses.
Game Institute Level Editing System (GILES™ 2.0)
GILES™ provides a feature- rich and user-friendly level editing environment. A combination of power and programmability, GILES™ is the perfect tool for your next videogame or 3D graphics project. GILES™ is easy to learn and easy to use and ships complete with documentation. This 3D game creation software and level design program is available for free download with most Game Institute courses.
Features Include:
- Mesh, Face and Vertex Editing.
- Hierarchical scene management and export.
- Fast and accurate persistent CSG operations.
- Real-time preview of compiled level.
- Hidden Surface Removal (ensures legal geometry for BSP compilation).
- Planar, Cylindrical, Spherical and World aligned texture mapping.
- Calculation and export of face/vertex normals and AABBs.
- Per-face support for Alpha Blending, Full Bright, more...
- Support for standard and splat-terrains
- Overlay Generators for scene decal placement.
- 6DOF camera controls.
- Prefabricated object library management system.
- Thumbnail display of models and textures.
- Texture caching and management.
- Export file chunk control interface.
- Fast batch conversion for import of IWF, 3DS, and X files.
- Exports IWF and X files.
- Plugin support for user-defined primitive brushes.
- Plugin support for user-defined entities (Particle Emitters, AI Triggers, NPC paths, etc.)
- Customizable user-interface.
- …more...
Price: (Included FREE on selected course CD-ROMs.)
Platform: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, Millenium, XP
To learn more about GILES™ 3D game creation software and level design program please see our GILES Knowledgebase
Game Institute BSP/PVS Compiler (version 1.0)
3D engine developers understand that spatial subdivision techniques can often be the key to achieving optimal application performance. While there are a number of different techniques to choose from, Binary Space Partition (BSP) trees are one of the most popular spatial partitioning data structures at your disposal. They can be used to speed up many of the most common operations in 3D engine programming: polygon sorting, visible surface determination, collision detection, line-of-sight determination, ray-casting, etc. The Game Institute BSP Compiler is one of the most stable, full-featured, and accurate BSP tools on the market and provides significant benefit to users of the GILES™ level editing software.
Features Include:
- Potential Visibility Set (PVS) calculation, compression and export.
- Illegal geometry removal.
- Hidden surface removal.
- Exterior surface removal.
- T-Junction repair.
- Real-time preview of compiled level with 3D fly mode.
- Exports split or non-split polygon sets.
- Detail object support.
- IWF and Half-Life™ level import.
- ...more...
Price: (Included FREE with Graphics Programming with DirectX 9 Module II)
Platform: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, Millenium, XP
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