\Tools for Game Development
Alias Website, Learning Edition
Complete $2000, Unlimited $7000, Student discounts available if you qualify.
Learning edition - FREE. The learning edition is limited in what it can render and the file format is not compatible with other programs
so its not much use for creating games.
Discreet Website, GMax
Full version $3495
GMax - FREE. Limited to output in GMax format only which is useful for mods of games that are built to support it but little else except for practice.
Amabilis
$50 for Plus, $70 for Pro
Caligari
$299
Milkshape3D
$25
NegDesign
$49
Wings3D
FREE
Anim8or
FREE
Giles
FREE if you do certain classes at GameInstitute
Softimage
Foundation $495
SoftImage have partnered with the Ogre engine (which will by implication help Axiom) to produce exporters
Jason Zelsnack has a managed wrapper available on his site as part of a demo.
(found on Inner Realm, thanks Mykre & Bonk)
It's also rumored that Brandon might be working on a managed wrapper, though that was a long time ago.
2/5/06: Added link to ODE 2.0 wrapper
ODE is an open source physics engine which has been used in commercial games such as BloodRayne 2.
As a side project of the Axiom engine Ode has had a managed wrapper created by David Walker and now supported by theTurbo. Information can be found in the realmforge forums though with the current state of Axiom (does anyone know the official story?) I don't know if the ODE wrapper is easily obtained or not.
There is an additional managed wrapper written by James Raine. More details can be found here.
PepperBoy has updated James Raine's code to .Net 2.0
The Tokamak physics engine is available free for commercial and non commercial use.
RobyDX has created a managed wrapper for it which is available on his website on this page (translated to english by google). It's not complete yet but he is looking for people to try it out and give him feedback. Contact details on his website.
Sharp3D.Math is a Math and Geometry library written in C# which could be very useful to game programmers.
You can read news about the product at the authors blog.
