ggn Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) A language like this is not much worth if there aren't any supporting tools that can help create supporting files like graphics or audio files. Since this question keeps popping up in various threads I thought I'd gather everything in a thread of its own. Please share any other packages I missed/forgot (also I'm not up to speed with Linux/Mac tools, so suggestions welcome there too - especially free ones): Graphics editors grafx2 (1,2,4,8bpp images) (Windows, Linux, Mac) ProMotion NG (only for 4bpp/8bpp images) (Windows) - there's a free version with reduced functionality but it's still pretty good The gimp (1/2/4/8/16/24bpp images) (Windows, Linux, Mac) Paint shop pro 8 and earlier (1/2/4/8/16/24bpp images) (Windows) (commercial, but v4.12 is free AFAIK) Graphics gale (1/2/4/8/16/24bpp images) (Windows) - used by a few friends to create sprites. Also supports animation so it might be handy to create spritesheets. Krita (Windows, Linux, Mac) - Only for 24bpp images. paint.net (Windows) (only for 8bpp images) Audio editors Audio is much easier to handle as rb+ uses sox to import sounds which handles most major formats including wav, mp3, etc. With that in mind here are a few audio editors for Windows: Audacity (Windows, Linux, Mac - Free) Wavosaur (Windows - Free) Goldwave (Windows - Free trial available) Cool edit pro (Windows) - Actually I'm not sure this is free or not, any volunteers to try the old versions out? Wavepad (Windows) - Free for non commercial use. So watch out if you're going to burn carts or CDs! General tools bfxr - move the sliders around, hit "mutate" and fiddle till you have your own personal sound effect (or until you annoy people enough to tell you to shut the hell up)! Chiptone - What do you mean you want MOAR KNOBS? Oh well, here you go then! Misc opengameart.org - Don't have a graphics artist in your team? Is your graphics art skills equivalent of womble with a crayon? Have a look here then, lots and lots of free and quality art await to be adopted! freesound.org - a very large library of sound effects and many recorded sounds incompetech - Kevin McLeod's site offers a vast array of royalty free music. I find it a valuable resource for good quality recordings. Edited May 24, 2017 by ggn 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 add wavepad aswell also free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) add wavepad aswell also free Site and/or screenshot please? Is it audio/graphics? What kinds of files can it edit? Edited May 23, 2017 by ggn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVE 1 GAMES Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) Switch sound converter lets you convert to .raw sampleshttp://switch-sound-file-converter-software.soft32.com/ Edited May 23, 2017 by Jeffrey_Bones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 Switch sound converter lets you convert to .raw sampleshttp://switch-sound-file-converter-software.soft32.com/ That's fine but this is just a sound converter. It's not a problem to use one if you really want to but assets importing supports audio files of most formats and also does resampling. Have another look at assets.txt description, I think you can simplify your build chain significantly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) Cool edit pro (Windows) - Actually I'm not sure this is free or not, any volunteers to try the old versions out?As far as I know, it's never been free. Old versions were shareware, and the unregistered versions either disabled some functions, or disabled saving your files. It was bought by Adobe and renamed Adobe Audition, with added DRM and a much higher price. A pity, because it was an excellent audio editor -- I should have registered a copy back in the day... Edited May 24, 2017 by Zerosquare 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 This is great list of useful tools, and for more than just Jag stuff ( I'll suggest some of these for my students when teaching intro game programming ) , thanks. That said, I tried GIMP recently and I just can't get along with it after almost exclusively using Photoshop (or very occasionally Paint Shop Pro) for almost 20 years....which does make me wonder why Photoshop is missing from the list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 This is great list of useful tools, and for more than just Jag stuff ( I'll suggest some of these for my students when teaching intro game programming ) , thanks. That said, I tried GIMP recently and I just can't get along with it after almost exclusively using Photoshop (or very occasionally Paint Shop Pro) for almost 20 years....which does make me wonder why Photoshop is missing from the list? Because I wouldn't want people forking over hundreds of dollars/euros/whatever to achieve something that could be done using free tools . Besides, it's called "Photoshop" for a good reason - i.e. to edit photos. While it's actually possible to edit pixel graphics with it I wouldn't recommend it! And one final point is that I've no idea if it supports all the bit depths people will want to use - so if it supports at best 8bpp it'll be a huge waste of money for everyone. (And yes, there are "other" ways of acquiring a copy of Photoshop but... is it really worth it?) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 (edited) Was going to suggest aseprite (http://www.aseprite.org), but it seems they want 15 USD for a compiled binary. Which is odd, because it's supposedly open source software (sauce here). I really like it; it has built-in animation features as well. Edited May 25, 2017 by Shamus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Paint Shop Pro (NOT Coral, but JASC) is great - for the single reason that it can save 16 bit uncompressed .TGA - which is directly supported by RAPTOR API. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggn Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 Paint Shop Pro (NOT Coral, but JASC) is great - for the single reason that it can save 16 bit uncompressed .TGA - which is directly supported by RAPTOR API. ...which is not used by rb+ (but yeah it's a nice program indeed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Paint Shop Pro (NOT Coral, but JASC) Yeah, stay away from the Corel versions. I used PSP XI a while back, it had fewer features than PSP 8, an annoying DRM service that ran even when you weren't using the program, and simply having PSP open with no document loaded used 100% of one CPU core (!). Another example of a great shareware program that got ruined a big company. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Thompson Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Just in case someone is looking to poke around in creating some amazing MOD music for the Jag, Bassoon Tracker is probably the easiest and coolest web-based, free MOD tracker available to start making some super cool tunes for your next project: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlidellMan Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Here's another program for pixel art: Piskel - Both browser and downloadable. Lospec.com - Great for upscaling, palette creation/sharing, and pixel art. (Browser based) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlidellMan Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I thought I would mention Furnace Tracker here: https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace Yes, it supports Amiga 4-Channel MODs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alucardX Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 (edited) On 5/27/2017 at 9:09 AM, Zerosquare said: Yeah, stay away from the Corel versions. I used PSP XI a while back, it had fewer features than PSP 8, an annoying DRM service that ran even when you weren't using the program, and simply having PSP open with no document loaded used 100% of one CPU core (!). Another example of a great shareware program that got ruined a big company. I asked if there was a reason nobody was using GIMP... I scrolled up and there was a recommendation for GIMP. Sorry for the noise. Edited March 7 by alucardX Foot in mouth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Mag Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 (edited) I use grafx2 and https://www.aseprite.org/ Edited March 7 by Jag_Mag 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlidellMan Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I don't know if this was appropriate, but Division has a spriting tutorial: https://6th-divisions-den.com/ms_tutorial.html While this focuses on Metal Slug, it can apply to original games too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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