Free Visual Studio Community Edition, essential for working with C++ projects or for recompiling any kind of plugins for your project.
Blender, the well known free 3D modelling software.
Open Source tool for making 3D characters.
Sculptris provides an excellent gateway into the exciting world of 3D. It's features are easy to learn, even for someone with no experience in digital art, yet robust enough for creating base models that can then be refined in other applications, such as ZBrush.
Simplygon is the leading solution for automatic optimization of 3D-game content and Level of Detail creation. By replacing tedious and time-consuming manual work, Simplygon offers the benefits of LODs but without the drawbacks of increased production time and development cost. (Free for personal use)
MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
Tree It is an easy to use real time 3d tree generator for the simple creation of your very own 3d tree models for your dark basic pro and dark GDK apps and games.
Spacescape is a free tool for creating space skyboxes with stars and nebulas.
This utility enables you to convert OBJ, DXF™, DAE, and 3DS files to or from multiple versions of the FBX format.
Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.
Krita Desktop is a free an open source painting application (also available in a tablet orientated variant).
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder. The interface is translated into many languages.
Tool for sound effect generation.
Free version of a high class audio software.
Real-time Colleborative DAW (Free for up to 10 Projects)
Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators.
This tool might be interesting for people creating new own assets. It allows to parse a video and get usable data from it, on a more phyiscal orientated level, to being for example feed to a game engine to get some real natural movements or event chains.
For streaming your Unreal Engine usage or your actual game to the world.
Small little tool to generate quick animated gifs of your screen. Very helpful for exchanging a specific situation problem with others in the community.