Resources:Tools
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Besides Radiant a mapper requires a great many other tools, image editors, sound editors and so on.
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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]
For more information about how to use Terragen to make skyboxes for your map, see the topic Making sky box images with Terragen
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
You can download PovRay freely for all platforms, the current version is 3.6 [PovRay Download Page]
For more information about making skyboxes with PovRay see the topic Making sky box images with PovRay
