WHat do you do FOR SL outside of SL?

Just a question that popped up.. essentially wondering what tools are out there for SL without being in SL

SO.. what do you use for anything that you use for SL outside of the client?

I use Photoshop for textures and mountain sculpts
I use Wings3d for better sculpts
I use Rokuro Pro for symmetrical sculpts
I use Sculptypaint to make sculpts more natural
I use LSL Editor to script when I can't enter SL
I use the LSL Wiki downloadable to help me not suck at scripting when my internet goes out (lol)
I use SLImageUpload for sculptmaps
I use the windows base command prompt to check my connection constantly to make sure I've just crashed and internet hasnt gone out (My net goes out alot, so I run a constant ping on a seperate monitor)
And..I think that's it...

What do you use?

I use Gimp and GraphicConverter for manipulating images when I'm making textures.

I use TextWrangler with a LSL language plugin for scripting.

I use Avimator and Qavimator for doing animations and poses.

I've downloaded an old horribly out of date mirror of an old LSL wiki as my primary local reference (because I like the format and it's so much faster than the current official lsl wiki).

And I've played around with Mono and LibSL to make a text-based SL client, to see how it worked and find out if it has any potential practical benefits.

-Atashi

photoshop
rokuro

um that's it as far as I can think LOL

I have a website that I made specifically for SL, but then decided to not do what the plan was

can you guess by the name of the site...

http://www.lindensforsale.com

hehe

site still up, but I do not sell lindens unless someone I feel I can trust is over their limit and wants me to do them a favor, but has to be someone I know... too chancy otherwise (I was selling awhile back but... got burned too many times)

I could write forever on this topic. Well, no, I couldn't, that's a patent exaggeration. But I could write for a considerable length of time, so I will just summarise for the moment:

* Qavimator for animations;
* Pixelmator and the GIMP for textures and image editing;
* Yojimbo for scrapbooking, research, project tracking and general note-taking;
* FreeMind for mind-mapping, ideas capture, project planning, anything I like really (I _love_ FreeMind);
* TaskPaper for task management and activity planning;
* iCal for date-and-time-based planning;
* BBEdit and lslint for offline LSL editing;
* Audacity, xACT and Quicktime Pro for sound editing and conversion;
* SnapzProX for recording video and taking precise screenshots including UI;
* ffmpeg and iMovie for editing video;
* Subversion and SCPlugin for version control;
* Twitter and NewsFire for keeping up on the latest developments.

I use, um..

Genetica, Apophysis, Texture Maker and Ultra Fractal to cheat around being lousy at art

Photoshop when there's no actual art involved

TortoiseSVN and Visual Studio for low-level playing with programs

Silo 2, um, not for anything yet but dang, it's too much fun not to be used

I use legos to simulate prims to see what a build would look like.

*giggle*

I use the GIMP ( too cheap to pay for photoshop) and sculptypaint.
I also hand-write flow charts for scripts. It helps me order my thoughts.

Nothing. The inworld tools meet my needs.

JIRA/comments/reporting

http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/Dashboard.jsp

SL Forums (of course)

&

the blog/blog comments

http://blog.secondlife.com/

I use my camera to take a picture of my real world artwork (paintings, stained glass, etc.) and use a basic (and maybe the most basic) photo software to do a little cropping and the like and then upload to SL. So: 1) camera; 2) basic photo software (Paint).

3) I also take snapshots in SL, save them to my computer, use Paint to marginally adjust them (maybe going so far as to change the file to .jpg) and then uploading to Flickr; and
4) I've used Flickr, or a website I found in Flickr, to create a "magazine" cover which I then uploaded into SL to be used as my artwork book cover.

I am, sometimes, frankly shocked that I'm able to remember how to get into SL, though, as I am not the brightest bulb in the toolshed in terms of computer things.

Anims:
- Poser for complex anims (& some experimental poser->sculpt stuff)
- QAvimator for poses/simple anims

Texturing:
- Photoshop CS3 + Multiple plugins (Flaming pear etc.)
- Adobe Bridge for texture mgmt. (Tried a lot, still haven't found a great picture mgmt tool)
- Thumbplug tga (or something like it), to see tga in explorer

Sculpts:
- Maya for sculpts
- Polytrans for conversions / mesh optimization

Scripting:
- Ultraedit + languagefile sometimes
- scitez (experimentally)
- several LSL search plugins, but i should download the whole set
(Still usually use inworld editor, as I hate the copy/paste stuff, and in SL high up + fast gfx, works kind of ok on 24" screen)

Coding / Backend:
- Visual Studio (c++) for opensource client investigations
- Visual Studio (c#) win. backend dev.
- Eclipse (PHP/Java dev)
- Macromedia Dreamweaver (HTML design/PHP backend dev. (like the sync))
- MySQL db + admin tools (backend)
- Your usual coding tools. (beyond compare, editors, xml spy etc., wherever necessary)
- tortoiseSVN (source mgmt)

Audio / Samples:
- Goldwave for basic converstion & editing (small footprint, lots of options, good to run together with 200 other apps)
- Whatever i need for special stuff (text2voice, morphvox etc.)

Video:
- Fraps to record
- Windows Movie Maker for basic editing (usually enough for my purposes)

Prob. forgot a few.

I use Animation Master (I am purchacing Maya soon) for creating .3ds sculpties
I also use PhotoShop for creating all kinds of texturing (either on the UV maps or on tileable textures)
My SL patron handles the rest!

my dear man, how do you find time for anything outside of SL, with 15 lovers in SL

heh

Photoshop and Paint! for textures.
Flickr to show my SL photos
Rokuru and Torotoken for simple sculpts

I've tried and failed with:
Sculptypaint (freezes up on my comp)
OpenSim (won't download properly)

My RL 'agent' plays about with Blender but not in connection with SL thus far.

For textures...one word...GIMP. Got Poser and Avimator for poses/anims (If I can figure out how to use them properly....sigh)
Got Blender for prims and such(another one I'm still trying to figure out...)
Got Photoshop 5 and 6 for the stuff GIMP can't do.
Wouldn't mind getting Maya, but that will have to wait until I win an RL lottery.

hand drawn and mouse textures:
photoshop
paintshoppro
inkscape
paper and pen, scanned in to hard drive
sculpties:
rokuro
sculptypaint
and few other sculptie programs
my blog
there is probably others but I forgot names.

I use photoshop. I read and post to many blogs and forums. I use Poser to create animations/poses. And I use my email to commuicate with the volumes of customer IMs I get in the course of a day while offline. That about sums it up.

i usually use these programs while i'm still in world

rokuro and tokoroten pro are my latest toys
wings 3d
paintshop pro (mostly just for touching up inworld photo's tho)

just watched a sculptypaint video, looks interesting. might give that a play as well in the near future

This may sound crazy

but I just kinda daydream

and that's my main tool.

Is it too meta to talk about the tools I used to develop a tool for other people to use with SL?

Incidentally, as I have recently been detailing on Twitter, I also use

* a big pad of squared paper
* multicoloured gel pens
* sticky shiny stars in FIVE DIFFERENT COLOURS

The more meta, the merrier.

Sculpties:

Maya 2008, Rokuro Pro

Textures and Signs: PhotoshopCS3

Scripts: LSL Editor and Notepad++

Video(just starting): Fraps and probably Windows Movie Make unless someone can suggest a better Machinima editor

and I can't wait to check out all the tools Ordinal uses!

The Gimp. That's about it.

texture:
photoshop
illustrator (no one uses illustrator?)
cheap scanner
keen eye
weed


3d:
lindens to buy sculptie packs
just downloaded wings3D
blender when im bold.
(contemplating paid apps)
wine

LSL
textmate (sometimes)


system:
mac book pro laptop for design and lo-framerate playing
home-built AMD 2.2 dual core, nvidia geforce 7-something (256mb) for playing

chair:
aeron, size large (incredibly overrated)
Hon chair from Costco ($120, best chair i ever got)

desk:
The infamous IKEA Jerker

atrophy recovery: Club One gym membership

inspirational art prints to stare at while contemplating: Imaginary Foundation

Microsoft Office (Excel and Access) to keep the "books" for the in-world business I help to manage.
Flickr for photos
Photoshop Elements for cropping and enhancing photos