Here's my list
Free
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- GIMP (for textures and screenshots)
- Picasa (for managing snapshots / cropping them and exporting them)
- Blender (for animations)
Low Cost
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- ACE HIGH MP3 WAV WMA OGG Converter (for converting to inworld sounds)
Commercial
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- Poser 5 (for animations)
- PhotoShop (for textures)
Any others? Even small utilities would be interesting.. I am especially looking for a free sound converter to recommend.
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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12-19-2004 21:56
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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 10,231
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12-19-2004 22:05
Free -
Audacity (awesome freeware audio editor and converter) ShoutCast WinAmp Commercial - Photoshop 7.1/ImageReady Poser 5 3ds Max 7 Darktree Textures Vray Advanced GhostPainter2 _____________________
 My other hobby: www.live365.com/stations/chip_midnight |
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Alan Palmerstone
Payment Info Used
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 659
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12-19-2004 22:36
Poser Artist (poser 4) ($99)
Paint Shop Pro 5/Gimp (Free on Magazine cover disk/free download) Graphics Desk (for photosourcing) (Free limited edition) Microsoft Photo Story 3 for making collage "movies" from snapshots (free) Shoutcast/Winamp for land sound streaming _____________________
Visit Parrot Island - relax on the beach, snuggle at the waterfall, ride the jetskis, make a movie and buy a pool!
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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12-19-2004 23:05
I use:
Poser 5 - animations Paint Shop Pro 9 - textures Photoshop 7 - textures SnagIt Pro 7 (screen shots) Winamp 5/OddCast plugin Visual Studio 2003/2005 (for SLUniverse/ application development) Outlook 2003 - to manage mail/offline ims from SL Alias Motionbuilder (animations) Maxthon (for browsing forums) Yahoo Messenger (chat/ims) _____________________
Cristiano
ANOmations - huge selection of high quality, low priced animations all $100L or less. ~SLUniverse.com~ SL's oldest and largest community site, featuring Snapzilla image sharing, forums, and much more.  |
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
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12-19-2004 23:09
Free:
The Gimp POV-Ray Poser 3 Cheap: Nothing Commercial: Nothing _____________________
perl -le '$_ = 1; (1 x $_) !~ /^(11+)\1+$/ && print while $_++;'
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Eloise Pasteur
Curious Individual
Join date: 14 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,952
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12-20-2004 02:27
Free
Audacity - audio Cheap iViewMedia Pro - cataloging my artwork and audio files Font FX7 - word parts of logo design and manipulation Commercial Photoshop 7 - Textures, snapshot manipulation Poser 5 - anims BBEdit 8.0.3 - Scripting out of world (occassionally). Writing up notes etc. out of world for import into the world as notecards without too many dodgy characters. |
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
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12-20-2004 02:33
Hmm...
Free: - GIMP - Textures/Snapshots etc. - Firefox - Forums - Thunderbird - Email/Offline IM - Ethereal - Semagic - SL Blog - OpenOffice - Spreadsheets and so on (Cashflow Analysis) Cheap: - Trillian Pro - ICQ/Yahoo etc Commercial: - Poser 5 - when I use it... _____________________
http://siobhantaylor.wordpress.com/
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Moonshine Herbst
none
Join date: 19 Jun 2004
Posts: 483
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12-20-2004 03:08
Free: (or almost free)
Pen & Paper - Script planning and ideas Notepad - Script editing and local copies of my scripts Shoutcast plugin/winamp - Streaming music TextureMaker - Seamless textures Gmail - Collects all the IMs when im not in-world Apache/PHP/Linux/Shoutcast - Runs shoutcast server Internet Explorer address bar - Paste characters that don't work into SL (foreign keyboard) Skype - Voice communication SL forums & Wiki Commercial: ACDSee 6 - Local image browsing/resizing/converting Photoshop 7 - Textures Illustrator 10 - Complex texture layouts Steinberg Wavelab - Sound editing/recording/format convertion Poser 5 - Animations (I just started playing with it, great fun!) Leased dedicated webserver - for shoutcast server (Not purely for that, run some sites too) GOM/PayPal - Pay my land tier |
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Jonquille Noir
Lemon Fresh
Join date: 17 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,025
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12-20-2004 05:24
GIMP for textures and clothing.
Poser 5 for poses. Shoutcast for streaming audio. _____________________
Little Rebel Designs
Gallinas |
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Blake Rockwell
Fun Businesses
Join date: 31 Oct 2004
Posts: 1,606
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12-20-2004 05:31
Free: Letters in combination with words.
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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12-20-2004 05:32
Bah. I came into this thread expecting juicy details of essential resources that enhance your second life experience... such as smoking paraphernalia and sex toys. I didnt realise it was gonna be a boring old list of crappy software.
Allow me to add mine since I bothered to come here, tho: Bejeweled. ...For all those times I crash and I can't log back in. Which is a lot. And for the 5 minutes it takes for me to actually get logged in. As well as after having just tp'd and while waiting for the building I'm already stuck in to load so I can see what the hell it is I'm stuck in, now that LL have plugged that evil nasty phantom avie 'bug'. _____________________
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Marker Dinova
I eat yellow paperclips.
Join date: 13 Sep 2004
Posts: 608
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12-20-2004 05:55
Free: The Gimp POV-Ray Poser 3 Cheap: Nothing Commercial: Nothing Poser 3 is FREE??? _____________________
The difference between you and me = me - you.
The difference between me and you = you - me. add them up and we have 2The 2difference 2between 2me 2and 2you = 0 2(The difference between me and you) = 0 The difference between me and you = 0/2 The difference between me and you = 0 I never thought we were so similar  |
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Gemini Galatea
Pixel Sculptor
Join date: 1 May 2004
Posts: 200
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12-20-2004 05:56
I was told about a handy little thing called Eyedropper.exe, which gives you the RGB numbers of whatever your mouse happens to be pointing at. Great for matching hair/editing attachments to match etc.
It's free too.  _____________________
I get *MY* marching orders from Pony Linden. He talks dirty to me and says "Everything is ok, daddy is here now" |
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Hank Ramos
Lifetime Scripter
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 2,328
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12-20-2004 06:03
Free
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
Posts: 6,627
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12-20-2004 06:15
Poser 3 is FREE??? Yeah. Can be. I've had Poser 3 free about a bajillion times on PC Magazine covermount CDs and DVDs. Along with things like Carerra, Truespace, PaintShop Pro etc. They give away versions that are a couple out of date in the hope you'll upgrade with the 'special reader offer'. Of course, you never do. You just wait til the next version comes out on covermount. _____________________
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Tito Gomez
Mi Vida Loca
Join date: 1 Aug 2004
Posts: 921
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12-20-2004 06:54
Free
Audacity Shoutcast Commercial Photoshop CS Dreamweaver MX Fireworks MX MS Office 2003 Internet Explorer Hosted LAMP based Hosting for MP3 feeds, Website and Email - T - _____________________
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Postmark Jensen
is not a jerk.
Join date: 23 May 2004
Posts: 281
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12-20-2004 07:27
Poser
Photoshop Paint (yes, MS Paint, when transparency isn't an issue) Shoutcast Chicken Milk Cheerios Pick up laundry |
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
D- in English
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 884
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12-20-2004 08:08
Winamp
Winzip Poser 5 Photoshop (with a few hundred plugs) _____________________
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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12-20-2004 12:35
Yeah. Can be. I've had Poser 3 free about a bajillion times on PC Magazine covermount CDs and DVDs. Along with things like Carerra, Truespace, PaintShop Pro etc. They give away versions that are a couple out of date in the hope you'll upgrade with the 'special reader offer'. Of course, you never do. You just wait til the next version comes out on covermount. I love it when you say covermount, it gets me all hot. _____________________
Cristiano
ANOmations - huge selection of high quality, low priced animations all $100L or less. ~SLUniverse.com~ SL's oldest and largest community site, featuring Snapzilla image sharing, forums, and much more. |
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Lisse Livingston
Mentor/Instructor/Greeter
Join date: 16 May 2004
Posts: 1,130
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12-20-2004 15:59
For textures:
Graphic Converter (free download) Photoshop Elements (free with digital camera) For general log saving / offline scripting: TextEdit (came with Mac OS X) For business web site: vi (came with Solaris) Apache (free download) PHP (free download) PostgreSQL (free download) Wow, I don't spend much, do I.... _____________________
Land Developer, Builder and Real Estate Agent Come to my events! Sundays at 10:00 am: Texturing Contest Tuesdays at 5:00 pm: Land 101 and at 7:00 pm: Trivia Thursdays at 7:00 pm: Land 101 Fridays at 7:00 pm: Primtionary (Other events occasionally scheduled) Read my LiveJournal! Visit my Livingston Properties web site for your Real Estate and Building needs! |
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
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12-20-2004 23:19
Poser 3 is FREE??? It was on a CD on the cover of a magazine a few years back. _____________________
perl -le '$_ = 1; (1 x $_) !~ /^(11+)\1+$/ && print while $_++;'
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blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
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07-17-2005 20:15
I want to add wood workshop to this list. And tattoo
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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :
"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches." |
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FlipperPA Peregrine
Magically Delicious!
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,703
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07-18-2005 12:12
A few free open-sourcers to mention... PHP's GD library and ImageMagick have both made a few of my fun toys possible, like the GIF 89a to SecondLife animated texture converter thingy I made:
http://www.SLBoutique.com/anim/ Its free to use, inputs a GIF 89a and outputs and SL compliant targa image as well as the script code necessary to animate the texture on the prim. The only downside is that it does not carry transparency from the 256 color GIF 89a pallette through to the 32-bit targa pallette. This can easily be handle with a click of the magic wand background erased tool in photoshop, or select color range, however. The heavy lifting is done. Blaze, ever thought of doing a Blender tutorial? I've never heard of someone using it to a degree of success in SL, like I have with the GIMP. I'm curious on how it stacks up against Poser. Regards, -Flip _____________________
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