A collection of blender and blender game engine resources

Blender builds for various branches

• Builder - Blender latest builds
• Builder experimental - Blender latest experimental builds
• GraphicAll.org - Various Blender and BGE builds
• UPBGE downloads - Compiled versions of UPBGE
• Dark Blender - Optimized for sculpting and game asset creation
• GLSL PBR Shader for viewport - PBR viewport (BA link)
• armory - Real-Time 3D Engine for Blender & Cycles (in development)
• D1618 - This branch contains a set of features aiming at mixing video stream with BGE scene as efficiently as possible (Video capture with DeckLink cards - Video keying with DeckLink cards - Offscreen render)
• Lux Render - A physically based and unbiased rendering engine (APL license)
• YafaRay - A free open-source montecarlo raytracing engine released under the LGPL 2.1 license
• YafaRay-E - YafaRay-E (Experimental)
• TheBounty Renderer - A free montecarlo raytracing engine (a fork of YafaRay)

Softwares and frameworks that uses blender.

• Morse - The Modular OpenRobots Simulation Engine
• Hanson Robotics - Eva Blender Animation API for ROS (Robot Operating System)
• Bioblender - Addon for Blender to do molecular work

Some usefull addons for modeling, rendering and game making

• BGECore - Framework for Blender Game Engine (BA Link)
• UPBGE-CommunityAddon - A framework for UPBGE (BA link) (doc)
• BGE-Master-Template - Master template for BGE
• Compz - Graphical user interface module for the Blender Game Engine based on BGUI and KXGUI
• BRIK game engine ragdolls kit - Meta-Androcto
• MakeHuman - Free and Open source tool for making 3d characters
• Manuel Bastioni Lab - 3D humanoids creation in blender (BA link)
• Animation nodes (AN) - A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender
• BGE Logic nodes - BGE Logic Nodes (WIP) addon
• Blend4Web - An open source framework for creating and displaying interactive 3D computer graphics and games in web browsers
• BDX - A cross-platform game engine for Blender 3D bases on libGDX
• Hive system - Visualprogramming in python (Hive system prototype)
• BGE network addon - Basic prototype for BGE networking addon
• Networking AddOn V2.5 - Multiplayer addon for BGE
• BlenderRealtimeEngineAddon - An addon to allow external real time engines (e.g. game engines) to use Blender as an editor and allow for closer integration.
• BlenderPandaAddon - A real time engine addon making use of the open source Panda3D engine.
• io_scene_gltf - A glTF exporter addon for Blender
• easyEmit - A particle system
• BlenderGEResourceKit - A collection of ready-to-use components for the Blender Game Engine
• Easy Game - a collection of tools that allow you to work faster and more efficiently with the Blender Game Engine
• BGE-MC - Blender Game Engine Material Creator
• super-texture - A one-click addon for generating multiple PBR maps from a single image.
• Asset Sketcher - An addon that lets you paint objects directly into your scene.
• BGE Sprite Addon - The BGE Sprite Addon lets you add real-time animated textures in the Blender Game Engine, replacing the old and inconsistent ‘UV animated texture' method with a better and more capable system.
• Area lamps - Blender with real-time rectangular area lamps
• Improved sapling tree generator - A new version of Blenders sapling tree generator with improvements, new features, and bug fixes
• COA tools - COA Tools is a 2D Animation Suite for blender. It offsers a 2D cutout animation workflow similar to programs like spine or spriter.
• Multi Object UV Editing - This addon enables a quick way to create one UV Layout for multiple objects.
• Driver Constraint Addon - This addon makes constraining shapekey driver to bones super easy. Its all in one simple operator.
• Blender curve draw - OpenToonz' freehand drawing function ported to blender by Campbell Barton
• InAIte - Blender Crowd Simulation
• CrowdMaster - Crowd Simulation for Blender 3D
• PBR Materials Addon - An addon for cycles render (macio)
• Bumpy materials plug-in - A plug-in that auto-generate simple "bumpy-shiny" materials from a diffuse texture.
• Lightmapper - A plugin that generate static lightmaps
• blam - A camera and projector calibration toolkit for Blender that also does automatic 3D reconstruction of geometry with rectangular faces.
• Render Cube Map - Blender Addon to Render Cube Map
• Blender addons list - Many blender addons (like Mifth tools, hdr2rgbm, ...)
• Blender Add-ons Catalog - Some blender official addons

Some works with math and blender

• Sverchok parametric tools - Vector work drawing and 3D constructing
• elfnor - Art and Math in blender
• Examples - Some examples of Sverchok tools

Branches and addons for VR, openHMD, OSVR, VRPN

• BlenderVR - Blender add-on for Virtual Reality
• Virtual Reality Viewport - Addon to bring virtual reality devices to the Blender viewport
• oculus_bge - Blender Game Engine - Oculus
• BGE educational program and vr dk2, leap motion integration - Making of Leap Motion für Python 3 (http://www.magben.de/?h1=3d&h2=leap_motion_hand)

GLSL shaders for BGE

• BGE Post-Processing Addon - Thatimst3r
• Compute Shader using OpenGL Wrapper (bgl) and Python OpenGL Wrapper - HG1
• Drawing into the viewport with modern OpenGL - HG1
• Tessellation shader example using PyOpenGL - HG1
• Bind custom uniform values to a 2D filter (using bgl wrapper) - HG1
• Real time cubemap reflection (environment map) - HG1
• Geometry Shader using OpenGL Wrapper (bgl)[fix for Intel] - HG1
• Procedural texture example - HG1
• OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) Tutorials - Yarbrough08
• Vector Motion Blur (Update: Now works on AMD GPU!) - ucupumar
• GLSL Grass Geometry Shader [update v. 2.2 - AMD now supported!] - Yarbrough08
• Multiple Water Shaders in BGE - Collected by adriansnetlis
• unlimited planar reflections & refraction (update) - martinsh
• GLSL Python, Realtime Reflections and UV Maps - martin.hedin
• Play with Martinsh shaders - Collected by youle
• Some shaders from various artists - youle
• Normal map based Screen Space Distortion FIlter (SSDF) - kitebizelt
• Per Object Motion Blur v1.1 - kitebizelt
• Post Processing Motion Blur Filter v1.2 - kitebizelt
• Fast Day/Night cycle demo - martinsh and sick
• Realtime Planar Reflections with Blur (Nodes) - CG Sky
• Physically Based Shading | Nodes - adriansnetlis
• Terrrain LOD [UPDATE: dynamic shadows !!] huge open world for all (glsl shader) - benj
• Basic Physically-Based Shader - HG1
• PBR Shader - HG1
• Physically based shading using nodes - Beard_of_Zeus
• IBL node setup in BGE/Viewport - Binary
• PBR Specular shader in blenders viewport - pachupp
• Equirectangular Reflection/Refraction in viewport and game engine with GLSL node - Binary
• windwaker light shader - cuervo1003
• Cell Shading Addon for the BGE - RedForest
• Daylight system, without shaders - martin.hedin
• GLSL Python. Realtime Reflections and UV Maps - martin.hedin
• Night vision shader rifle scope version - HG1
• HDR + many simple GLSL 2D Filters v2.0 - martinsh
• Car Paint in BGE using HG1's cubemap node - adriansnetlis
• Some other shaders - Sdfgeoff's node shaders and other experiments

Blender official/unofficial forums

• Blender Artists
• BA Game engine
• Blender Guru
• BlenderNation
• Blender IRC
• [UPBGE IRC : #upbgecoders and #upbgeusers]
• https://upbge.org/
• http://www.upbge.fr/
• Discrd: Blender
• Discord: Blender Game Engine

API, WIKI, Tutorials, 2D and 3D Models

• Yobi3D - Free 3D model search engine
• Blender API - Blender/BGE Application Programming Interface (Python API)
• Blender Manual - Blender Reference Manual
• UPBGE API - UPBGE python API
• UPBGE Documentation - UPBGE documentation and release notes
• Blender Wiki - Blender Wiki
• Blender game engine wiki - Blender game engine old wiki and scene graph
• TutorialsForBlender3d - Tuttorials for blender game engine
• BLEND SWAP - A community of passionate blender srtists who share their work under creative commons licenses
• OpenGameArt - Assets for game making
• Blender Artists resources
• Prof. Monster's resources
• Good-To-Knows - Prof. Monster's Hints, Guides and Good-To-Knows
• How to correctly analyse and profile your game - How to correctly analyse and profile your game
• Important threads and FAQs - Important threads and FAQs
• Beginners - where to start - Where to start
• The GPL Answer Thread - The GPL Answer Thread
• Useful threads - Some useful threads in BA forum
• Agoose77's resources - Agoose77's resources

Artists who have video tutorials

• Adrians Netlis
• Arsenal RSL
• BornCG
• CG Sky
• Jacob Merrill
• John Hamilton - John also have a good tuts: http://www.blenderreal.com/
• Lars Pfeffer
• martins upitis
• Red Frost Games
• SixDayStudio
• stym
• Solarlune
• SuperGloop
• ThaTimst3r
• THERSX
• Wayward Art Company

Some links for blender development

• Blender development - Blender commits and bugs
• Development fund
• Blender developer blog - This blog is for developers of Blender who are working on projects related to the Blender releases on blender.org
• Blender dev news - Some dev news about blender
• Google Summer Of Code - Here are disscustions: Video1 - Video2
• 18 anticipated Blender development projects of 2015
• Top 22 developers 2015
• The top 30 Blender developers 2016
• Gooseberry branch in blender master
• Blender branches to watch in 2016
• Blender roadmap – 2.7, 2.8 and beyond
• Blender 2.8 – the Workflow release
• The bright future - The bright future for blender and for creativity

Some books about Blender/BGE

• Blender 3D: Noobs to Pro
• Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide - Kuller Bacone Victor
• Game Development with Blender - Dalaei Felinto - Mike Pan (Online version)
• Create your own 3D Games with Blender Game Engine - Gossellin De Bénicourt Grégory
• GLSL programming in Blender - A wikibook about glsl programming in blender 2.63

Current BGE bugs and bugs that solved in UPBGE

• T4096 - keysensors/mousesensors - missed input with lower framerate
• T17869 - Geometry Node Material doesn't work properly with shared mesh in BGE
• T18081 - 2D Filter - custom uniform textures
• T18496 - Reflection coords problems in Dome mode
• T18987 - alignAxisToVect() Factor Bug
• T19216 - Parent with negative scale is not working
• T21884 - Joystick Controller unable to handle jump in axis letter assignment
• T22267 - No Vertex Parent on Scene Start
• T22482 - BGE 2.50: replace all material properties (strings) by datablock pointers (Material *) - (may affect ext. blend libraries)
• T22729 - Rendering of ztransparent objects depends on mesh center position
• T23214 - Softbodies with vertex groups misbehave
• T23271 - KX_JoystickSensor.connected stays True when I unplug the controller, and vise versa
• T23670 - Something not updating with linked groups
• T23894 - Mesh modifier in BGE is not used for culling calculation
• T24948 - Modifiers make materials disappear in BGE (Solved in UPBGE v0.0.1)
• T25537 - Text object size is different in 3d view and BGE
• T26403 - Material "Face Textures" option ignored in GLSL mode
• T27118 - Non-repeating textures and decals not working
• T27484 - Run-time command line options don't work in Multi-texture mode.
• T27606 - Mouse position (or bgl buffer) wrong in Letterboxing
• T28017 - Multi-texture mode Light Options not working
• T28530 - Action in one Layer affects Action in another Layer.
• T28723 - Action Actuator: problem with re-play of actuator and general triggering/looping
• T28853 - Object Animation is different in 3d View and GameEngine.
• T28979 - Action actuator breaks animation.
• T29415 - None looping actions loop when played with another looping action
• T29416 - Strange behavior while using add mode with action actuators
• T29474 - getScreenRay returns wrong objects with orthographic camera
• T29643 - 6DoF constraint go mad on rotation round Y axes
• T29804 - 3D Text's transparent areas will occlude objects drawn behind it afterwards.
• T29815 - Changing Radar Angle
• T29820 - Ping Pong with action animation
• T29909 - Instanced mesh data is not unique
• T30178 - Simultaneous Animations play incorrect
• T30243 - Action Actuator:Translation on root bone causing slow parent effect on child objects
• T30443 - Lighting of Last Object of a Material Overriding Others
• T31092 - Rigid Body Joint Limits not displayed correctly in Physics Visualisation
• T31306 - Difficult to play an animation with a proxy
• T31346 - The IPOs for constraint influence are ignored when an action is played on an Armature Object in BGE
• T31558 - Solidify modifier doesn't work in game engine when material index offset > 0
• T31630 - New Character Physics Type Not Adhering to Physics
• T31876 - Objects with more than one material
• T31965 - Displace Modifier not working in Blenderplayer
• T32105 - Unstable triangle mesh collision bounds
• T32175 - bge.texture.ImageRender alpha channel returns 255 for every pixel
• T32181 - 'invert' sensor option doesn't trigger controllers unless it's positive once
• T32257 - Custom GLSL material shader error
• T32622 - Texture defined from bge.texture's mipmap variable doesn't work
• T32636 - Screensaver should be deactivated when using joystick
• T32648 - Bad rendering of textured planes (and solidified too).
• T32794 - Collision shape bugs
• T32861 - Odd physics behavior in Blender Game Engine under Windows Only
• T33191 - Occlusion replaced mesh bug
• T33512 - Blender Game Engine does not fully implement Parent-Child relationships.
• T33722 - Added Static Objects Disallow Sleeping
• T33730 - Node Materials Won't Display Multiple UVs
• T34061 - Bones rotated ~160° flip normals of normal maps
• T34510 - Game Loop timing broken
• T34557 - Friction and character physics
• T34757 - Shadows dropping the frame-rate based on camera distance
• T34792 - Game engine node material bug with 2 vertex color channels
• T35038 - usePulseCollision does not work on Near and Radar sensor
• T35120 - BGE Camera Actuator fails to align to -X axis
• T35294 - ImageRenderer output depends on RenderSettings.resolution_{x, y}
• T35423 - Incredible destabilization of physics when using jointed objects with suspendDynamics()
• T35606 - Font object visible through object with Z transparency set at zero
• T36502 - Blenderplayer can't go to full screen mode after starting in Linux
• T36506 - Game engine python, 'activate(actuator)' causes flickering armature when using trackto and constraints
• T36581 - Texture flickering on objects with shape keys when armature in BGE mode
• T36779 - BGE texture module: Camera texture will always fail when the scene is restarted.
• T37125 - Moving UV coordinates on objects with shape keys fails (Solved in BGE and UPBGE v0.0.2)
• T37412 - libload progress
• T37514 - Keyed animations slow in blenderplayer on OS X
• T37686 - Soft body physics much slower in 2.69 compared to 2.68a
• T38119 - Model Renders Black in BGE via Multitexture
• T38823 - Shadows + Occluders Severely Drop Framerate
• T38913 - Game engine crash with Arraymod + cap-object
• T38916 - Bug Game Engine Runtime
• T39602 - BGE crashes when "fliping trough" physics for object with actuaors
• T39604 - Using SetParent disables timeOffset
• T39963 - OBS causes blender to crash on closure ,
• T40086 - Poor Support for Dynamic Number of Lights in GLSL Mode
• T40427 - Compound mesh not updated with Outliner children
• T40475 - BGE: Children objects not freed after python access. (Solved in UPBGE v0.0.1)
• T40790 - 2D Filters and anti-aliasing broke quad buffer stereo
• T40955 - LibNew doesn't clone Physics Mesh (Solved in UPBGE v0.0.6)
• T41181 - Redesigning Input Controllers/Sensors
• T41182 - SceneGraph Review
• T41184 - SceneGraph and Transforms
• T41209 - Run Armature actuator not working with DupliGroup object.
• T41520 - BGE-optimized vertex deform method causes vertices to go smooth
• T41529 - After pree P test game, pose library will turn red & lose if save .blend file.
• T41677 - Skin modifier dont work with 0 face objects (Solved in UPBGE v0.0.1)
• T41825 - Effects in bge
• T41829 - Normal Map in Material Node going wrong
• T41940 - VideoTexture ImageRender does not consider 2D filter actives for the scene
• T42017 - BGE KX_GameObject new 'worldDimensions' and 'localDimensions' properties accessible from Python API
• T42020 - BGE crashes when LibLoading multiple files asynchronously
• T42126 - Track-to BGE child rotation during runtime not rotate as parent.
• T42227 - Radar sensor distance
• T42332 - Action Actutator (or playAction()) Blend-in option doesn't work on object (on Armatures does)
• T42440 - An useful BUG: show TEXT backface in BGE.
• T42599 - Simple animation test stopped working.
• T43011 - A clip of the object is not right in BGE
• T43325 - getScreenPosition lags behind by a few frames
• T43538 - BGE: Servo Control needs a rewrite
• T43829 - No alpha blend in cycles viewport, should expose BGE alpha blend setting in cycles UI.
• T43883 - joystick Xbox does not work properly in Blender 2.73 and 2.74 testbuild
• T43909 - "Logic steps" setting can slow down game to a crawl
• T43923 - Record animation with a rigid body fails to animate
• T43984 - Variance shadow maps (VSM) work incorrectly in the BGE
• T44032 - Unusual cpu and gpu usage and stuttering in BGE
• T44328 - Character motion actuator additive motion not working correct
• T44529 - 2D Filter not running for entire screen when Viewport is used with Stereo
• T44557 - BGE leaves references in memory after quitting (Solved in BGE v0.0.7)
• T44638 - BGE Animation inconsistent with Blender render
• T45068 - Scaled Capsule Collision Bounds do not match mesh
• T45367 - Z-Transparency at alpha 1, it makes artifacts.
• T45576 - SoftBody demostration file makes strange deformation.
• T45679 - Standalone game engine won't start
• T45742 - Drivers in Game Engine don't work for Spawned objects
• T45957 - light.type appears to not do anything when set in engine
• T46122 - Action Actuator - Flipper Mode Frame Glitches
• T46276 - Multiple Track To bone constraint not working in BGE
• T46381 - The animation is not played to the end (Solved in BGE and UPBGE v0.0.2)
• T46394 - bgelauncher embedded and standalone
• T46527 - Transformation of child objects appears broken
• T46645 - [BUG] BGE character physics steering
• T46650 - Animations don't update until looking at them.
• T46698 - Mesh parent bug
• T46728 - BGE Flipper Animation, Frame Glitches in connection with Dynamic Physic Types
• T46755 - Animation gets broken (needs properer title).
• T47036 - Collision callback normal is reversed on objects with collision bounds enabled
• T47125 - Standalone player segfaults, but embedded player works fine
• T47278 - Bone child.worldPosition and world Orientation appear to be at least 1 frame off
• T47287 - Animation not play in Game Engine
• T47297 - Compound parenting issues with spawned copies of root shape objects.
• T47330 - Problem when 2 gamepads use in same time logitech (button dont work but axix work) logic editor
• T47616 - BGE stereo SBS : (time of) rendering discrepency between eyes
• T46902 - BGE:: Motion Actuator:: The code for Force apparently overwritten with code for LinV (Solved in BGE with Fix T46902 and in UPBGE v0.0.1)
• T47908 - Loop End action does not complete (behaves as Loop Stop)
• T47909 - Significant animation overhead remains after stopping animation playback
• T47945 - transformUV() and vertex.UV don't work on rigged objects
• T48099 - Adress boundary error given bad input (Solved in UPBGE v0.0.6)
• T48226 - Armature-setParent-glitch-crash
• T48256 - Shadows in Blender Game
• T48317 - Blender Crashing in Game Engine
• T48371 - Action Layers not working in newer Blender versions
• T48374 - Global texture co-ordinates sometimes distorted when setting worldOrientation
• T48458 - BGE solidify materials
• T48493 - Animation Glitches when suspending/resuming scenes
• T48599 - getActionName() still returning Action name that already stopped.
• T48706 - Text 'center' mode not working in game engine
• T48705 - bge.types.KX_FontObject(KX_GameObject).resolution doesn't exist in documentation.
• T48751 - GE Sound works in Blender but not in runtimes (similar to T27558)
• T48774 - Tangent Shading material option doesn't work on BGE.
• T48989 - Custom shaders don't work on group instances
• Not reported bugs that solved in UPBGE //Todo