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Cool tools to streamline your game development are available from several of our partners. Check out the information below on downloads available to XNA Creators Club Online members, and follow the links to download these powerful tools.

Synapse Gaming

The SunBurn Lighting and Rendering Engine, by Synapse Gaming, brings the latest AAA game technology to the XNA Game Studio community.

As a natural extension of the XNA framework, SunBurn’s familiar design is easy to integrate into XNA games and projects. And with full support for the XNA Game Studio content pipeline, SunBurn is compatible with the top modeling, animation, and texture applications.

All SunBurn users receive ongoing friendly support, updates, and access to SunBurn's creative development community.

XNA Creators Club Online Premium members receive exclusive discounts on Synapse Gaming products, including:

SunBurn Community: $100 discount
SunBurn Pro: $50 discount

Get your discount codes here.

Visit Synapse Gaming's site to learn more!

Autodesk

Game developers worldwide have come to rely on Autodesk tools to create amazing, interactive gaming experiences. Autodesk empowers you to create, animate, and integrate your work to bring your creative vision to life.

Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool Pro–free for Premium Membership.
Based on the Autodesk Softimage Mode Tool, Mod Tool Pro allows only XNA Creators Club Online Premium Members to produce 3D content for use in their Microsoft Xbox LIVE® Indie Games. Download SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool Pro.

Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool – Free!*
Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool is a free version of Softimage for non-commercial game creation. More Information on Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool.

For a full range of Autodesk game development solutions, please visit http://www.autodesk.com/games.

*This product is subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of the software.

Toon Boom

Toon Boom Animation Inc. (toonboom.com) is the worldwide leader in 2D animation software solutions and carries user-friendly animation applications ideal for game developers.

Toon Boom Studio
Toon Boom Studio 5 is ideal for Creators looking for an easy-to-use entry-level animation software, from sketching to final publishing. Creators can export their projects as independent layers with alpha channel enabling them to create games with eye-catching animated elements.

Toon Boom Studio is exclusively offered to XNA Creators Club Online Premium members for ~~$299.99 USD~~ $289.99 USD. Purchase with your Premium discount code, and download Toon Boom Studio today.

Visit Toon Boom for a full range of animation solutions including Toon Boom Storyboard and Toon Boom Animate Pro.

GarageGames

To add a WYSIWYG graphical user interface to Microsoft® XNA® Game Studio3.0, GarageGames provides Torque X for use with XNA Game Studio. Built from the ground up to provide a full featured tool set to game developers using Game Studio, Torque X is available for the creation of both 2D and 3D games.

GarageGames has already migrated key portions of their 2D and 3D game development technologies to the XNA platform, making it easier to design and build a full-featured game in managed C# using the XNA Framework.

XNA Creators Club Online Premium Members can download Torque X for free.

Torque X 2D / 3D for Games Studio 3.0
A GarageGames account is needed to obtain the activation code.

More information on Creators Club Online Premium Membership.

Allegorithmic

Allegorithmic is the company behind ProFX Online, a professional texturing middleware. A key component of ProFX Online is MaPZone Pro, an authoring tool designed specifically for editing and managing procedural textures for AAA games. To assist you in your game production tasks, Allegorithmic has developed a special version of MaPZone Pro for members of the XNA Creators Club Online - free!

Download MaPZone Pro.

Turbo Squid

The Turbo Squid library of compatible 3D models provides Microsoft XNA Game Studio developers with the high-quality 3D art assets that they need to bring their video games to life. Turbo Squid proudly hosts a community of the world’s finest 3D artists, and through a partnership with Microsoft, these artists’ game-ready models are available to XNA Game Studio developers.

The library includes a growing supply of both free and competitively priced models in file types compatible with Microsoft XNA Game Studio (.fbx and .x files) that Creators can incorporate into their games.

More information on the Turbo Squid library.