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Geek Culture / The Ultimate Utility Survey (Drumroll)

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Complex
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/ Applause

And thank you for joining this thread on what hopes to be an enthralling chain of posts enlightening the DB Community on their favoured utilities, in which they use to create their media for their programing, whatever format.

And please don't talk about "It depends on your own style, and your own needs...". I, and probably many others, understand that. But I ask only for which are the favoured utilities among us all so to give suggestions for others to try out. No-one wants a full blown war on which is the best Modeller of all time or what ever.

Please help the community by saying which are your favoured programs in which you use to create your media used in conjunction with your programming activities. Say as many, or as few as you like in any category (be it modelling, animation, 2D drawing or whatever), and leave reasons if you wish.

Please, for everyones benefit don't start a flame war. I want this to help everyone.

Thanks in advance to all who contribute.
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andrew11
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Posted: 29th Jun 2003 01:05 Edited at: 29th Jun 2003 01:14
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Ok these are my favorites:

3D - Wings3D, Lithunwrap (Wings Rules!)
2D - (in order of preference) Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop (I have both), Print shop, and MS paint (Very simple stuff).

"All programmers are playwrites and all computers are lousy actors" -Anon
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eightfoot514
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i second that on photoshop...great program.
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andrew11
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I like illustrator better, but both top notch programs (Well, you sure pay enough )

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MrTAToad
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I can just about use Cinema4D XL7. Pretty good with Dance 5, but my favorite utility is Visual Studio 6.

Good news everyone! I really am THAT good...
http://www.nickk.nildram.co.uk/ for great plug-ins - oh my, yes!
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8truths
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3D -- Notepad
2D -- Notepad
Vector -- Notepad
Web animation -- Notepad

Ah, notepad . . . No one would ever need to buy software if everything was in an open format that could be read by notepad.

Actually . . .

3D -- Max, although Wings is handy; and Poser is very cool, if completely useless for anything except artwork (and it has an awful render engine)

2D -- PhotoPaint, but it isn't as modern as PS

Vector -- Illustrator, although Freehand has potential
Web animation -- SWISH, is so much easier for non-programming Flash file and GIF and AVIs

Sound -- SOUND FUDGE!

Video -- none, they all suck

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Dazzag
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VS6, PSP, Poser.. ummm... MS Access, MS Excel (VBA programming is cool).

Cheers

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Complex
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Well, I better post mine up here.

3D - 3D canvas, Wings
2D - Photoshop, MS Paint

and Notepad deserves an honorable mention in every category.

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the_winch
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For 2D
thegimp - Does everything I need to that mspaint can't and is free.
mspaint - simple and efficent. It's a lot quicker to do some things in paint than the more complicated programs. It doesn't save transparacy in pngs which is a pain.
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cusoi
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3D: Milkshape
2D: Corel Photo Paint

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jimbo1913
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2D - paint shop pro 7 (I doubt I'll ever need anything else although i said that about PSP5)
3D - internet, unwrap (awesome little program)

Ive tried 3D modelling but im useless! In the words of Homer 'If really difficult to do then its not worth doing'.

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Complex
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Hmmm... I'm guessing this is the ghost of WindowsXP, but now if I do anything remotely 3D with Wings (ie anything other than clicking menus) the werl.exe crashes. Anyone else had this issue?

Thanks

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Kangaroo2
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I use Notepad for almost everything possible

For 3d I use Milkshape3d for lowpolymodelling, Lithunwrap to skin it, and 3dsmax for complex 3d and fmv

For 2d I mostly use Paintshop Pro 5-7, Animation Shop 1, and sometimes Photoshop7

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And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
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Solidz Snake
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Cool Edit

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The Wendigo
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3D - Truespace, a few programs I made in VB
Tools - VB6
2D - Paint shop pro 7, MS Paint.
Music - Mod Tracker, Mod Plug, Crock MP3 (made by me for conversion!)
Sound - SOUND RECORDER!!!! WOOHOO FOR CRAP THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!

Current Projects: Game Spawn 85%, mini BSP maker 50%, Height Mapper with many features 75%, Space Tactical (Like BC300AD) 15%.
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