What's in your toolbox?

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What are your go-to tools for game dev?

My toolbox is:

  • Unity
  • Adobe Creative Cloud (particularly Photoshop and Illustrator)
  • Ableton Live / Reaper
  • Sourcetree
  • Blender / 3DS Max

I know the courses also refer to GIMP. Are there any tools you can’t do without?

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For me it’s:

  • Unity
  • Visual Studio Community
  • Paint.NET for basic image editing
  • github client
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I should add Visual Studio Code to my list (Mac user).

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Gamedev stack:

  • Pen & Paper (yes, really :wink: )
  • old standalone Photoshop license
  • Blender
  • Substance Indie Suite (Painter, Designer, Bitmap2Material)
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • Visual Studio 2015 Community
  • SourceTree GIT (+ private origin repo offsite)

More about my pipeline from asset to inGame object:
Low Poly Worlds, a good way to learn Blender and UE4

:+1: Fail Faster - there is no instant win :+1:
Twitter: @GamedevCala - Blog: nerd-time.com - Twitch: GamedevCala

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Great topic @ninjachimp!

For myself…

  • Much like @GamedevCala, there is always a pad of paper and a pencil at hand… I personally like to believe that in thousands of years time someone will discover my scribblings and believe that I was indeed a genius, just too far ahead of my time… :smiley:

  • Visual Studio 2015 - wouldn’t be without it… just wish it would launch faster from Unity, sometimes it takes so long MonoDev actually loads?!

  • Macromedia Fireworks MX - old but trusty

  • Photoshop CS something or other - but lack the necessary skills

  • Blender - but not yet delved into it’s 3D wizardry

  • Subversion / Git Kraken

  • Interwebs - Google, Trello, GameDev.tv forums etc

  • GIMP - but only used it a couple of times for another course

I guess those are really the only game dev related stuff… a few others for other dev stuff…

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What I use :

  • Unity
  • Blender / Maya (student license so can’t use for commercial work but still)
  • Photoshop
  • AwesomeBump - Really useful tool to quickly generate many types of map from a color texture
  • Scapple - Awesome app for mind mapping; originally for writers but still great for organizing thoughts.
  • Source Tree
  • OBS Studio to record play sessions and WIPs

I would like to learn Substance Painter in the near future, it looks like a very powerful tool!

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My most used tools:

  • Blender
  • Substance Painter
  • Substance Designer
  • Bitmap2Material
  • Unreal Engine 4/Cryengine V
  • World Machine (Terrain Heighmap generator)
  • Visual Studio
  • SourceTree
  • GIMP

There is a few others but they are additional ones, that i don’t use too often

Daz3D
Unity
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My toolbox includes but is not limited to:

Pen and Paper
Unity
UE4
Blender
Gimp
Sourcetree
BitBucket
Google Drive/Docs
Microsoft Office
Asana
Visual Studio

All of them are self explanatory. Not everyone may know what Asana is. It is project management software. I don’t use all of its power just for myself but it is useful for planning and giving myself deadlines.

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PC
Unity
Visual Studio Community Edition
Gamemaker (Now moved to Unity so not used since)
Notepad++
Blender (not done a lot in it yet)
Spriter Pro
Paint Shop Pro X8 (great alternative to Photoshop and with coupons got it for £54!) very pleased with it.
Substance Painter 2, Bitmap2Material, Substance Designer 5
Aesprite
Sonar Steam Edition
Sonar Professional + VST instruments
Libre Office ( I use the draw program a lot for flowcharts)
GSRichCopy360 (for copying Dev stuff to my archive drive and NAS as regular intervals)
PostImage (essential for forum images)
XMind 7 (for mind maps, but not neede it yet)
4 note books with fineline pens (Essential!)

IPAD
Procreate
Sketchbook Pro
a couple of Sprite apps but I can’t be arsed to get my ipad and find out what they are called!