3D Rad

You don’t need to play a lot of games to get the urge to build one yourself. Sooner or later it happens, and that’s when you start looking for means to bring one to life. There is a good variety of tools around, and it’s an easy bet to assume that the best ones are expensive.

However, there are those who have dedicated their time, passion and skill set to create game development tools that are absolutely free for anyone to use. 3D Rad is such an example, and it’s a very welcoming environment for those who want to learn the basics and some advanced techniques that facilitate game design and development.

The first time you run 3D Rad you’re greeted with a user-friendly interface and a tutorial offer. We recommend you go through the helping documentation because it’s well-structured, and it offers just the right kind of insight.

3D Rad can serve as a great tool for those who wish to initiate themselves into game development. It comes with a large number of pre-constructed mini-games, complex objects, environments, and more. At its core, 3D Rad is more of an object assembly tool as it allows you to import a wide range of formats and items.

Despite its modest look and GUI design, 3D Rad features all the necessary tools and features you need to put together a complete game. It offers mapping, light and shadow maps, texture mixing, frame-based animation, dynamic polygonal rigid body use, collision detection and more.

You can even run the games you create without exporting them. Launching one of the many projects 3D Rad comes with, I was surprised to see how well the physics are represented. If you manage to fine-tune the project the right way, you can surely obtain impressive results.

On a closing note, 3D Rad is by all means a great little tool. It has all the basics, it’s easy to use and there is such a vast array of information that comes with it, that it’s impossible to not be able to create something functional and good with it.