Hi guys!
I would like to put here another open question…
Lately I was wondering wich are the best tools and engines you can use for gamedevelopment.
I have the impression that a lot of us we use more or less the same “standard” tools but I’m sure too that we use some “out of the box” tools for certain tasks:
For instance, these are some of the tools that I’ve been using:
ENGINES 3D
Cryengine
UDK
Unity
Crystal space
ENGINES 2D
Gamemaker
Cocos 2D
3D PACKAGES
3dsmax
Maya
Blender
Houdini
Marmoset Toolbag
Modo
SCULPTING PACKAGES
Zbrush
Mudbox
TERRAIN TOOLS
Worldmachine
Grome
SHADER TOOLS
Rendermonkey
PVR shader editor
PVR shaman
CODE TOOLS
Notepad++
Sublime text
Atom
Visual studio
PyCharm
Wing
PyDev
TEXTURE + BAKING TOOLS
Photoshop
Gimp
3d coat
Substance designer
Xnormal
Quixel suite (DDo, NDo… )
Flowmap painter ( http://teckartist.com/?p=96 )
SOURCE CONTROL
[B]Perforce
Git
Mercurial
SVN
CVS
Snoop /B for the WPF people
TRACKING + PLANNING
Excel
Project
Jira
Shotgun
Trello
Google docs
Pencil ( http://pencil.evolus.vn )
[B]yED /B
MS Visio
Astah
StarUML
GanttProject
Evernote
DATABASE CLIENTS
HeidiSQL (MySQL / MariaDB)
MongoChef (MongoDB)
SqliteBrowser (SQLite)
NoSQL Manager
MISC TOOLS
Xnview
- image browser
Topogun- for 3d retopology
UV layout- unwraps an uv mapping
Unwrella- unwraps an uv mapping
Flatiron- unwraps an uv mapping
- for texture painting mainly
Everything- file explorer ( https://www.voidtools.com/ )
Entrian- for visual studio ( http://entrian.com/ )
Resharper- if you are doing C# and using VS ( https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ )
Green shot- for easy screengrabbing
GifCam- record desktop interactions as animated gif
VMWare Workstation- to virtualize machines
Icofx- for creating icons
XVI32- hex editor
[B]Nightshade UV editor /B- Awesome and super usefull UV editor created by Nightshade
Bulk Rename Utility- to rename files massively
And more or less this is my complete toolkit (and for sure I’m missing some others…)
Anyway, I’m sure you have some other tricks on the sleeve we all would like to hear
cheers!
I would love to add your suggestions here