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October 21st, 2007, 11:43 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
yeah, gimp is free and useful. i make my grpahics in other game editor (age of wonders shadow magic)... so that works if you have another fantasy game with editor. Someone recently used the wesnoth editor... Wesnoth is freeware, so wesnoth and gimp should be more than adeuqate and totally free and legal. google for downloads.
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October 22nd, 2007, 02:31 AM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
Haven't tried it, as I only recently stumbled over their website - but AutoREALM looks quite promising:
It's an opensourece map making program .. should be ideally suited for the task, shouldn't it?
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October 22nd, 2007, 08:02 AM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
AutoRealm is good for making base outline for continents and such, perhaps adding some stuff, then taking the image to GIMP and modifying it as necessary. I've got it but haven't played around with itmuch. A friend of mine also knows some other freeware image processing program, but I need to ask him what it was.
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October 22nd, 2007, 01:37 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
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AutoREALM looks quite promising
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October 23rd, 2007, 10:49 AM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
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October 23rd, 2007, 02:38 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
atm I'm using GIMP and it does what I want to do.
1. loading takes a bit long though..
2. I find it to be a bit unstable, save often because if you change something (mostly with patterns or other "difficult" tasks) the program sometime hangs and you need to shut it down.
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October 23rd, 2007, 02:55 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
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AutoREALM looks quite promising
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Delphi is a fantastic platform to develop on. It is also offering them Linux cross compatibility out of the box as well. I use it at work for RAD on the applications here over C# simply because the outside support is simply huge. You can find precompiled units for virtually anything. Though, C# will eventually surpass this, but until then... |
October 23rd, 2007, 03:41 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
Thanks guys. I'll check all these programs out.
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October 24th, 2007, 05:22 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
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Yeah, and then come back and tell -or show- what worked best. and maybe 2nd best, just in case its a matter of personal taste, you know what I mean ;-)
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October 26th, 2007, 10:21 PM
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Re: Shareware graphic tools?
Also, questions. I love answering graphics questions, especially if I have to learn something in the process.
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