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Blender3D THE open source 3D modelling/animation package with LOTS of features. Saves .x files directly. some featurehighlights: UV mapping/mesh unwrapping, subdivision modelling, game engine (can create standalones!).the gui is a bit special and takes a while to learn but it seems to be quite productive.
Wings 3D open source 3D subdivision modeller. small, fast, easy to use and looks clear.
AccuTrans 3D 3D-file format converter. full working version downloadable, licence 20USD. can write .x (Ascii or binary) but not read. has a good function to create 3 different styles of texture coordinates for the models.
3D Model Search Engine more than 30000 3D models free to download.
XFile exporter for 3D Studio
3DRipperDX lets you:

capture all geometry, textures and shaders, rendered during single frame;
import captured geometry into 3D Studio Max or Maya;
see what exactly has been drawn by each individual draw call;
see renderstate, textures, vertex streams, index stream, vertex declaration, vertex and pixel shaders (including HLSL source code if available) of each individual draw call.

XnView view and convert graphic files, supports more than 400 graphics formats
ddsview 0.663a tiled image viewing, alpha channel display, viewing cubemaps and reading (and writing) dds files
Nvidia Photoshop Plugins allow to save dds-textures directly out of photoshop
CubeMapGen converts CubeCross maps (as generated with Writer (EX9.Texture CubeCross) to regular cubemaps.

Image Magick free multi-plattform command line tool for a plethora of image calculation tasks (including stitching, compositing, conversion etc.)
Inkscape free vector-based drawing application similar to Adobe Illustrator. Saves .SVG natively.
The Gimp free image manipulation software for photo retouching, image composition & image authoring; similar to Adobe Photoshop.

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