Hi everyone, I’m in the process of reading up on Lua and trying to understand it all. My question for the community is; when it comes to actual development, what software/programs are you using to:
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For audio I use Audacity, which is free, open-source, and cross-platform. It has enough capability that it can make you sound like a pro. You can get it here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
A few years ago I created a set of tutorial videos showing how to get up and running quickly with Audacity. Those are now available at http://GameDevNation.com for the members – but since membership is free, don’t let that stop you. 
Jay
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for audio, i use audacity, and the software that comes wih the mac (garage band for example).
As for graphics, since i’m also a graphic designer, i use photoshop/illustrator, but it’s quite expensive software, so you can use gimp and inkstudio instead (they are free, but not good enough for profesional graphics edition) [import]uid: 44010 topic_id: 12125 reply_id: 44146[/import]
Audacity for sound and graphics is a mix of Paint.Net (Win) and Acorn (Mac). [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 12125 reply_id: 44147[/import]
Another vote for Acorn – forgot to put that in my original post. The latest version even does a pretty good job of opening Photoshop files and letting you at the layers if need be.
Gimp was mentioned and while it’s a *very* powerful program, the learning curve is like a cliff. At least it was for me.
Jay
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Seems like Audacity is the winner of choice for audio. Glad to see it’s free, I was looking at Logic Studio 9 and Reason that both have price tags, I’ll definitely take a look at it. As well as the tutorial videos.
As for images, I was lucky enough to take a course at school where the teacher offered an extremely low price for Photoshop so I currently have that, though I’ve never used it to free hand anything, only tweak pictures I had taken. Never even tinkered with Illustrator, may need to take a look at that. I also have Paintbrush (Mac’s equivalent Paint on PC), but that was missing something. I’ll check out Acorn as well.
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Have a look at www.aviary.com - it’s a collection of browser based (Flash) editors for image manipulation (vector and pixel) and sound effects. Very nifty.
Inkscape (vector) and Paint.Net (bitmap) are nice free image editing packages, but you can’t beat Adobe Illustrator if you’re willing to fork out the cash and put in the effort to learn it properly. [import]uid: 73935 topic_id: 12125 reply_id: 44162[/import]
I’ve been using GIMP for years. I agree with Jay about the learning curve, it’s about as difficult to learn as Photoshop was 10 years ago. Fortunately GIMP is very popular so there are plenty of tutorials to help with the learning curve. [import]uid: 27965 topic_id: 12125 reply_id: 44176[/import]
For images I use Photoshop Elements. It’s cheap because it comes with lots of discount tablets 
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For graphics I use Blender3d (http://blender.org) to model and render, ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) to stitch into sprite sheets from the command line, and I wrote a Gimp script to set background color to alpha transparency from the command line. I was using ImageMagick for the transparency, but it had problems and was leaving black pixels around the edges of my images.
Glad to hear about Audacity (no pun intended). I’ll check it out. I have been looking at sites like audiosparx for royalty free sounds to this point, but haven’t purchased any yet.
Do you need a high quality microphone and/or sound-proof room for use with Audacity? If you go to audiosparx.com, you can easily tell which sounds were done professionally and which were not. [import]uid: 58455 topic_id: 12125 reply_id: 44247[/import]
What we use:
3D modeling & animating:
Maya, Cinema4D
Rendering to 2D: and cutting:
After Effects
Putting it in a spritemap:
Zwoptex
Non moving images:
Photoshop & Illustrator
Music & SFX editing:
Ableton Live
Coding:
Corona Project Manager
Cheers!
-E
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I clearly have a lot of research to do once I get to that point in time, hopefully sooner than later. Thank you all for your helpful inputs. [import]uid: 55691 topic_id: 12125 reply_id: 44484[/import]