The Best Tools for 3D game developer

In 1970’s who had thought of playing video games in Television, but it became reality in 1980’s; however looking at today’s MMO, 3D mobile games and different game consoles, level of entertainment through games has reached an all new level. Game enthusiast has also put their brain aside gaming consoles and used their passion about games to develop the best games of all time. Being 80 million businesses, it is no more just for fun for game developer but they consider as an opportunity to work which interest them the most.

Along with technological development in IT industries, the best hardware which support and process the most fantastic graphics are developed by IT giants. Though, fan following of 8/16 bit games is still intact. Few popular tools used by game developers are listed below.

Autodesk 3ds Max- By far, one of the most used and preferred tool used to create and animate 3d Models. Majority of renowned games had used this platform to accomplish 3D graphic task. Combining integrated features like Character Studio, Scene Explorer and Key Framing 3ds Max offer the best solution to game developers around the world. It comes with flexible plugin architecture and can be used on Microsoft Windows platform.

UNITY 2D/3D- It is an integrated authoring tool, which is used to develop 3D projects mainly for the mobile platform and has some of the best iPhone and Android games to its credit. Games like Batman Streets of Gotham, Foreign Legion, Enercities, Robot Rampage and Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 was developed using this platform. It can produce games for android, iOS, BB, Windows, PS, Wii, Nintendo, PC, Linux etc. Cross platform development is the major advantage of unity.

Autodesk Maya- This was the original tool from Autodesk and is popular among certain sections of developers. Renowned games such as Madden NFL 2004, NASCAR Thunder, Halo 2, and Final Fantasy XI are developed using Maya. It works well on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms. Maya is equipped with its very own cross-platform scripting language, fittingly called Maya Embedded Language.

Zbrush - ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D/2.5D modelling, texturing and painting. It uses a proprietary "pixol" technology which stores lighting, colour, material, and depth information for all objects on the screen. This is one the best tool for digital sculpting used to create character for 3d Games majorly.

These platforms have pushed the threshold of 3d game development, which has become one of the most competitive industries in the world.