What are the best opensource tools for game design for mobile?

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hi there

I want to know what are best opensource tools for designing game assets like for audio,graphics,animation and how many of them are supportable with Unity?

or Unity has inbuilt functionality for these like Audio,Graphics,Animation etc?

Thanks

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Open source is a risky proposition for game development. Many open source licences require you to make your project itself open source. Which is pretty restrictive if you want to use proprietary software like Unity in the project as well.

On the other hand there are free resources you can use.

Edit: turns out most of this post is just plain wrong

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Good luck!

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I believe many, if not most major open source asset creation software allow derivate works (created assets) to be used in commercial and proprietary products.

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I’m sorry but that really sounds like FUD. No open source license that I know of will make you open source your project just by using open source software to create game assets like models, sound, textures, animations etc.

A GPL licensed plugin would almost certainly be incompatible with Unity but I don’t know of any of those. Many other open source licenses would be compatible and not make you open source your project.

If you were using Blender as your game engine AND distributing your game as an executable with the Blender code included, then I believe you are required to distribute the source under a GPL license if your customers wanted it. But there is no issues with creating models in Blender and using them in Unity (related to licensing at least).

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Sounds like I was wrong on this one. My apologies.

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What opensource or free tools are compatiable with Unity (audio,graphics,animation) and what are their licenseing terms?

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Did you read what cl.9 wrote?

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@Thanks nipoco

One last(Probaly) question

If I want to make a 3D FPS game using premium tools.

How much total budget in terms of tools only(softwares) (excluding Human Resources and Inventory expenses) all premium require in the development and marketting?

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It varies from case to case and with what software you eventually go.
But you don’t have to invest a whole lot of money in commercial software these days. Maya LT, Modo, Substance Designer, Photoshop, 3DCoat, Zbrush etc. are available for reasonable prices.

Marketing on the other hand is difficult to estimate beforehand. It can cost nothing, or several thousand dollars. There are too many possibilities.

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Thanks for wonderful,knowledgeful answar

Sorry for late reply