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9th November, 2005 at 21:21:59 -

Hey people. I just joined the daily click thing recently and hell, its kick ass. My first ever post will be on the subject of graphics. Coz hot damn! most of the games in here have awesome graphics, its hard to keep up with the quality. I used to be the kinda click gamer that would make a full game in less than a week...but from what iv seen im gonna have to start spending months on them to compete.

Anywho, in my opinion graphics are one of the most important things in a game (on the same level of importance as gameplay) and i was wondering what paint tool you people use. So far iv been using either flash (which has a weird issue when importing to MMF) or the MMF built in tool (which aint that bad). Do you know of any others that I should download that are good? (Mainly intrested in freeware here coz erm...im poor). Thanks

Oh and hello to all you TDC dudes! I hope i wont be too much of a n00b.

 
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9th November, 2005 at 22:11:25 -

NOOB is an attitude, so really anyone could be one. A newbie, on the other hand...
I don't think you'll have a problem being a n00b.

I use paint, and Kid Pix Deluxe.

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10th November, 2005 at 00:17:38 -

I use MMF for pixelling, and Adobe Photoshop for anything else.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 02:26:13 -

I'm the same as CC. Almost everything in MMF and Photoshop for things like bg and random stuff.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 03:16:57 -

I use Graphics Gale. It's a really nice picture editor produced with pixelart in mind. And now they've released a Free version for us poor bastards.
Can't remember their site adres at the moment. But just google it and you'll undoubtly find it.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 03:32:57 -

Ah, cool cool. I'll give that Graphics Gale thing a look. I ran into this program the other day called Pro Motion which I really like. Sadly I have 15 days left to make the most of it before it...like...explodes or something

Nothing beats photoshop though when it comes to editting large backgrounds and giving them unique effects.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 06:40:23 -

I usually use the MMF picture editor and Paint Shop Pro 9 for some stuff.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 07:07:12 -

Try to find Autodesk Animator v1.02! I use this for animations it uses fomats FLI/GIF wich is standard with KNP and TGF..maybe MMF too? U can do pretty nice gfx with it and is simple to use! But to find this program can be hard!
By now it is abandoware, so it should be free for download!

 
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10th November, 2005 at 08:08:45 -

if you're into heavy detailed spriting work, you can try the GIMP. It's the program I use for all my photoshopish needs. And it's free!
www.gimp.org

 
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10th November, 2005 at 08:33:06 -

TGF built in editor, and Irfanview for various special effects.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 09:21:04 -

Hmmm, Autodesk Animator is no where around dude. I googled to the max and still can't find it. That GIMP thing is pretty darn cool tho. Its complex (which is good over time) so I gotta get used to it. But very fancy tools indeed and a nice lil package for 3.6MB!

 
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10th November, 2005 at 09:31:34 -

Just realised theres a post very similar to this (okay i lied, its the exact same) in the Programmers Union section. Ah well, apologies.

 
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10th November, 2005 at 11:01:57 -

Bah, don't let it get to you. It happens alot here. Good luck with GIMP dude, I'd consider it more powerful than PS (Select by shape kicks so much ass) as a base piece of software. But you can't beat Adobe's 3rd party support.

Edit: Oh yeah, Gimp has it's roots in Linux, so some things are a bit strange about it (I'd kill for an MDI interface, and right clicking on the picture to bring up the File Menu is a bit strange too.)

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10th November, 2005 at 13:32:45 -

C&C/TGF Build in animation editor for pixel art, or Painter2, and Paintshop Pro 7.2 for other stuff, photoshop is a bit cluttered for my liking, as is PSP8/9/10

 
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10th November, 2005 at 21:16:55 -

This subject has been covered countless times. Next time, dive deep into DC Forum History.

For the record, I use MMF for the main pixelling, and I photoshop everything else.

 
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12th November, 2005 at 21:31:28 -

I like to use ArtIcons, which is an icon editor. I use it to do really pixel detail things.
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13th November, 2005 at 10:41:18 -

one word for all the gimp people, gimpshop. and nr 2 google it.

 
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16th November, 2005 at 00:56:43 -

Psp, and adobe photoshop, with tgf/cnc picture editor, and paint as a clipboard is pretty good.

 
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23rd November, 2005 at 13:19:33 -

I use mainly Photoshop cs 2.0. But for some objects i use Cinema 4d.

 
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24th November, 2005 at 11:04:39 -

Shab - Give GimpShop a try;

http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294

It modifies the GIMP GUI to look & behave like Photoshop.

 
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