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Terragen classic is a windows or mac only application. The good news is that the app works perfectly well under wine so Linux users can use it  also. The classic version is a free download though a little limited in it's rendering dimensions, it's fully functional and worth a try.
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Download from [[http://www.planetside.co.uk/content/view/16/28/ Terragen Official Site]]
  
 
== Sound editors ==
 
== Sound editors ==

Revision as of 14:12, 19 August 2011

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Besides Radiant a mapper requires a great many other tools, image editors, sound editors and so on.

Image tools

Gimp

Photoshop

Terragen

Terragen classic is a windows or mac only application. The good news is that the app works perfectly well under wine so Linux users can use it also. The classic version is a free download though a little limited in it's rendering dimensions, it's fully functional and worth a try.

Download from [Terragen Official Site]

Sound editors

Audacity

Video editors

Misc tools

FFMPEG

PovRay

Povray is a command line ray tracer capable of producing amazing output with a few simple text files. PovRay can be used for the following

  • Make scenery, there is a city scape macro
  • Make foliage
  • Make skyboxes

For more information about making skyboxes with PovRay see the topic Making sky box images with PovRay