Please, could you suggest me a tool to create 2D contents to be used by Corona SDK?
Thank you.
Andrea [import]uid: 67445 topic_id: 11019 reply_id: 311019[/import]
I’m not sure totally what you are asking for; when you say a “tool to create 2D contents” do you mean simply images for your apps?
If so, Photoshop is perfect. If you don’t want to spend that kind of money however many devs I know use GIMP as well.
Peach 
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Yes, I mean “simply images”. Can you use other tools, like DrawIt, Inkscape and Illustrator?
Thank you!
Andrea [import]uid: 67445 topic_id: 11019 reply_id: 40116[/import]
For Inkscape, you may be interested in this too:
http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/05/plug-in-drag-and-drop-corona-sdk-level-editor/
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Andrea,
As far as images go you can use any tool that can export to PNG or JPEG format. So basically any image manipulation tool you are comfortable with should work just fine. The problem I have run in to is finding a decent free/cheap animation program. I have yet to find one that is easy and intuitive. [import]uid: 27965 topic_id: 11019 reply_id: 40123[/import]
Look at these programs. For all of these there is a trial version:
* Acorn 3.0 http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
* DrawIt http://www.bohemiancoding.com/drawit
* Opacity http://likethought.com/opacity/
* Fireworks www.adobe.com/fireworks
Opacity can output drawing code for Objective-C, which is nice, but what you obviously will not use when coding with Corona
I also tried Photoshop. It is nice because you will find lots of tutorials. But for most cases it is overkill and way to expensive (at least for me).
In the end it looks like i do most of my 2d artwork with Fireworks. Lots of tutorials available and a reasonable price. Also there is a plugin which will create a main.lua file for you. Good to grab dimensions, asset names etc.
Have fun.
PS: I’m creating a tutorial on how to create apps with Corona and Fireworks. Will start to post next week on my blog http://cutemachine.com [import]uid: 2334 topic_id: 11019 reply_id: 40126[/import]
Thank you for all your suggestions.
I was thinking about Inkscape as it is free.
What are the differences between Adobe Illustrator and FIreworks?
Thank you.
Andrea [import]uid: 67445 topic_id: 11019 reply_id: 40129[/import]