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====== Editing Tools ======

**Editing Tools**

This is a article about editing tools, which are NOT specifically for the game titles we feature in our site. They are just the backbone of any good developers arsenal.

Check out our [[http://tactical.nekromantix.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=66|General Editing (tools)]] area in our forum.


====== 3D Modeling ======

**3DS Max**

The heavy hardcore industry standard 3d modeling and animation program.

Homepage [[http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax|here]].

**Gmax**

Gmax is a light version of 3DS Max, aimed for gaming community, its free of charge but is not supported anymore.

Homepage [[http://www.autodesk.com/gmax|here]].

**Blender**

Quite popular free of charge program.

Homepage [[http://www.blender.org/|here]].

**LightWave**

Another well known, big bulky modeling program.

Homepage [[http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/|here]].

**ZBrush 3**

Homepage [[http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/corefeatures/|here]].

**Cinema 4D**

Homepage [[http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/cinema4d/cinema4d_e.html|here]].

**SketchUp**

Homepage [[http://www.sketchup.com/|here]].

**MilkShape**

Homepage [[http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/|here]].

**MudBox**

Homepage [[http://www.mudbox3d.com/|here]].

**Polygon Cruncher (3DS Max Plugin)**

3DS Max Plugin that will remove polygons from your objects, can easily help by creating lower poly resolution LODs.

Homepage [[http://polygon-cruncher.mootools.qarchive.org/|here]].

**Modo**

Model, paint, render, animate, sculpt. Their homepage also has nice coverage of video tutorials. Modo is becoming (if not already) industry standard for 3D modeling.

Homepage [[http://www.luxology.com/|here]].

**Wings-3D**

Free 3D modeling software.

Homepage [[http://www.wings3d.com/|here]].

**Anim8or**

Freeware 3D modeling software.

Homepage [[http://www.anim8or.com/|here]].

**UVMapper**

UV Mapping software.

Homepage [[http://www.uvmapper.com/|here]].

**UVLayout**

UV mapping software.

Homepage [[http://www.uvlayout.com/|here]].


====== Archivers ======

**Zip**

ZIP was hardcore the good old times, now its dying away. **__DO NOT USE ZIP__** anymore, just use RAR nowadays as its better in all areas.

Homepage [[http://www.winzip.com/|here]].

**RAR**

The best and scene accepted archive program, both for Linux and in Windows. It will make the packets much smaller than zip, maybe even 25-50mb on **large** files, its amazing difference. RAR can also open zips and many other archive formats. Make no mistake, RAR is the way to go.

Homepage [[http://www.rarlab.com/|here]].

**7-Zip**

Its archive util which has more powerful packing capabilities than RAR, however its not scene accepted at 2010 yet (being reason for Linux support or whatever, its just not there yet). RAR and 7-Zip are compatible between each other.

Homepage [[http://www.7-zip.org/|here]].


====== Image Editing ======

**Adobe PhotoShop**

The industry standard image editing program, somewhat difficult to learn for beginners but this tool really is feature rich and good to use (once you master it).

Homepage [[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html|here]].

**Crazy Bump**

Crazy Bump is nice tool to create normal/specular maps. Its command line driven and has free and commercial versions.

Homepage [[http://crazybump.com/|here]]

**Jasc Paint Shop Pro**

PSP is much lighter and easier to use than PS.\\
Recently Jasc was purchased by Corel, so now they say PSP is located in their web page, go figure if its the same tool anymore.

Homepage (Corel) [[http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1155872554948|here]].

**GIMP**

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Homepage [[http://www.gimp.org/|here]].

**Adobe Acrobat Professional**

Not really image editing, but. Acrobat pro creates good PDF files. There is many free PDF creators also, but its luck if you find one that **really works** as you want it to be.

Homepage [[http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/|here]].

**Paint.NET**

Free image editing program.

Homepage [[http://www.getpaint.net/|here]].

**ImageSynth**

//Discontinued.// [[http://www.luxology.com/|Luxology's]] seamless texture generator, stand alone and Photoshop plugin. ImageSynth v2.0 is the last version released before they discontinued it due bugs and lack of support.

**Genetica**

Seamless texture generator.

Homepage [[http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/|here]]

**Substance Designer**

Seamless texture generator.

Homepage [[http://www.allegorithmic.com/|here]]

**PixPlant**

Normal map and seamless texture generator.

Homepage [[http://www.pixplant.com/|here]]

**ShaderMap**

Normal map generator.

Homepage [[http://shadermap.com/|here]]

**Njob**

Normal map generator.

Homepage [[http://charles.hollemeersch.net/njob|here]]


====== Misc ======

**Perl**

Used for lots of stuff. Check out Active Perl for Windows (Linux has Perl built in or easy to get etc).

Homepage [[http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/|here]].

**PowerGrep**

PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool, its very useful to search, replace/modify several text files with simple to complex regexp search phrases.

Homepage [[http://www.powergrep.com/|here]].

**RegExpBuddy**

RegExpBuddy is powerful regexp software for all your regular expressions needs. It can be linked to other editors like EditPadPro. Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use and Save Regular Expressions.

Homepage [[http://www.regexbuddy.com/|here]].

**TortoiseSVN**

TortoiseSVN is an SVN client, used to version control a source codes etc. Check out tutorial how to install this client [[:svn_client|here]].

Homepage [[http://tortoisesvn.net/|here]].


====== Sound Editing ======

**Cool Edit Pro / Adobe Audition**

//Cool Edit Pro changed its name to Adobe Audition//. Integrated audio recording, mixing, editing, and mastering. Record, mix, edit, and master digital audio files with powerful tools that bring flexibility and control to your desktop studio.

Homepage [[http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/index.html|here]].

**GoldWave**

GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor.

Homepage [[http://www.goldwave.com/|here]].

**Steinberg WaveLab 6**

WaveLab 6 - Audio Editing and Mastering Suite. WaveLab 6 is the all-in-one solution for professional mastering, high resolution multi-channel audio editing, audio restoration, sample design and radio broadcast work right through to complete CD/DVD-A production.

Homepage [[http://www.steinberg.net/128_1.html|here]].

**Sound Forge**

Precision, Stability, Ease, and Speed. The Sound Forge 9 professional digital audio production suite includes everything you need to quickly get from raw audio to finished master.

Homepage [[http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/product.asp?pid=431|here]].

**Audacity**

The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor. Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Homepage [[http://audacity.sourceforge.net/|here]].


====== Terrain Editors ======

**L3DT**

Its a terrain generator which uses all sorts of "advanced" stuff to create the terrain in steps.

Homepage [[http://www.bundysoft.com/L3DT/|here]].

**Wilbur**

Wilbur is a free terrain editor, this is very easy to use and even has some terrain erosion features.

Homepage [[http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/software.html|here]].


====== Text Editing ======

You never ever should use windows notepad or wordpad to edit OFP/ArmA configs or rvmat etc scripts. So here is few much better text editing utilities which include syntax highlighting and such.

**EditPad Pro**

Excellent text editor with syntax highlighting and other features.

Homepage [[http://www.editpadpro.com/|here]].

**Notepad++**

Its a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

Homepage [[http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm|here]].

**UltraEdit**

Powerful Text and Hex editor, can search and replace text in multiple files / directories.

Homepage [[http://www.ultraedit.com/|here]].
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