[Stryke 9]

OK, since I'm pretty sure none of you have ever heard of **** the System, I'll give you a rundown. Old, old booklet on how to get anything and everything without paying for it, and without the pigs busting down your door. Nice and handy, when you're strapped for cash. And it's time for a second edition. List your free goodies, put up a short descrip, include as direct a link as humanly possible. And make sure, if they're a demo version, that they more or less work (as in, you'd look at the end product).

Photoshop filters, modeler plugins, programs of a graphical persuasion, go. I'll put up an example momentarily.

And no, your commentary on almost entirely unrelated matters is not appreciated, unless you come bearing links.

[Stryke 9]

VDL Photoshop Plugins

Also here and here. Fairly impressive freeware plugins, nothing to base a render on, but then again, nothing that could hurt to have handy. These are somewhat less popular than the ubiquitous Flaming Pear plugins, but some are better, none have time limitations, and I know the Nightvision was pretty impressive when I dug it up the first time.
That, and the waveform one kicks ass in a serious way when properly utilized.

Adobe Photoshop not included.

[WMCoolmon]

The Gimp
Who needs Photoshop, anyway?
PHPEdit
A more civillized editor for a, well, less civillized age.

[Kamikaze]

I stole these from wEvil (however links were added by me):

Free Rendering Programs:

Brazil 0.2.6 (beta, but very functional if a little slow) http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/
BRMT (Renderman compliant renderer ,precursor to entropy. get it at www.exluna.com)
the one that comes with yer program (duh)
Vray beta (another GI renderer for MAX) http://www.chaoticdimension.com/news/

[Stryke 9]

Free Best Soft Internet!

Inhumanly slow. In Russian and what appears to be Engrish. It's like an online garage sale- it seems to contain links to literally everything on the Internet (from Windows XP beta version to DivX 4.0) that looks interesting, but not QUITE good enough to go and download. Sometimes you find a gem, I dunno.

Also, the bad translations are worth a trip on their own.

NOTE: The main list is all broken link, but is a good reference if you wanna track it yourself. The Russian side for the indexes, the Engrish-like side so you know roughly what you're looking at.

[Stryke 9]

3DMaxer

Dutch org. Apparently, all free goodies for 3DS MAX. I can't tell, tho, since I have yet to break any in. (psst, you StarCraft whiners! If you read Dutch, one of the members modeled your damn BattleCruiser!)

Also, Hair . You know, for when you really want hairy models. Also 3DS Max, I think it's a 3-day demo.

[CP5670]

Anyone know of a Steak™ Render Glow 8BF plugin or something that produces that type of effect? That would be very nice. Anyway, here is what I can find at the moment:

Irfanview: The best program I have seen for image viewing; it is fast, powerful and supports just about every format out there
http://www.irfanview.com

Terragen: A nice outdoor terrain render program comparable to Bryce; I haven't explored it much yet but my brother uses it a lot
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen

Universe: A nice program for making starfields and stuff; the shareware version can only do some effects, but most of the important ones are there (except for the lens flare, which is the best I have seen)
http://www.diardsoftware.com

Glitterato / LunarCell / SolarCell : Photoshop/PSP plugins for making space backgrounds; Glitterato and LunarCell make some cool effects if tweaked around a bit
http://www.flamingpear.com

Goldwave: A great sound editor; it is shareware but the only limit is a screen that pops up at the beginning.
http://www.goldwave.com

Winamp: Probably the best standard (non-mod) audio player around; very good equalizer and
http://www.winamp.com

Modplug Player / Modplug Tracker : A very nice audio player for mod-based files, similar to winamp but for mod's. The tracker program is a mod music editor; I haven't done much with it but have seen some very impressive stuff designed by it.
http://www.modplug.com

And one of my favorites:

GrafEq: Really, really good program for graphing 2D implicit relations; the only program I have seen yet that correctly graphs hyperexponential functions. If it supported infinite sums and diff equations I would have registered it... (although the only limit in the free version is a pop-up every ten minutes)
http://www.peda.com

That's about all the legal stuff I have.

[Stryke 9]

That Other Starfield Prog. Shareware, full version, but I don't know that it's the nicest around.

Anyone got the TrueSpace 1 link?

[Kamikaze]

Truespace 1: needed for freespace conversion and such.

[Stryke 9]

Lightwave2Terragen
Basically makes Terragen a terrain generator for Lightwave. Demo.

Basic Lightwave plugins
Terrain generator, decimation tool, all sorts of handy stuff.

I'll toss you TrueSpacers a bone with this site, which has a handful of (very) basic demo plugins, and then a fair-sized goddamn steak with a big-assed links page.

[Stryke 9]

Also, bone TS models, if you dig that sort of thing.

Anyone got a free sound editor?

[wEvil]

www.maxplugins.de - massive collection of freebie MAX plugs.

max3d.3dluvr.com - another massive collection

www.eye.box.sk - great site with links to loadsa great tuts.

[Stryke 9]

Metasequoia
Free modeling prog. See the page for information- it looks decent in general.

Anim8or
About the same, looks slightly less tasty, but you can't be picky with freeware...

Miscellaneous Progs
A listing of all sorts of various modelers, all freeware. Some good stuff, this. Includes POVray and a decent-looking Terragen clone.

[Stryke 9]

There's a fair deal of stuff at Renderosity, but you have to register and all that sorta stuff.

[Stryke 9]

Ey, moderators- how 'bout making this a sticky or summat? I keep seeing people who HAVE to be going past this thread to be making their posts begging for free ****.

Shows what you get for just being a little creative in titling...

[Fineus]

Not really - if it dies it dies, you can just point them to it when it's needed - perhaps if you make a page with all this info people can link to that?

[Stryke 9]

1. I'm being helpful, but not to the extent that uit overrides my supreme laziness. I sure as hell ain't gonna refer 500 noobs to a thread which'll get deleted in a month or so.

2. You haven't been listening to me ***** enough, Thunder! The computer holding my internet accounts got hit with a compound virus, and it took my FTP account information more or less permanently with it. Otherwise, hell, I'd be too busy flooding the forums with TAC mods right now to make this.

[Fineus]

I'm still not going to make it sticky

[Stryke 9]

Well, see if I ever...

Er...

You're gonna get the online tantrum of your life, buddy!

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[Stryke 9]

And, er, http://www.webattack.com/freeware/ also has tons of practically everything, including sound stuff and animation progs.