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From: matth@bellatlantic.net (Matthew Hulett)
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Subject: Re: Software recommendations wanted.
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:43:23 GMT
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   Hello,
   So, you be a poor boy, eh? ;-) O.k., I have a bunch of links off my
website for financially-challenged sorts. I'll summarize what I use
here:

3D- True Space 3. 
   The discussion about 3D Studio vs, TS3 has occured many times...
Heck, if you have $10,000 to spend, buy SoftImage. For $300-$400, you
can have TS3, which exports in every PSX format except TOD. 3D Studio
doesn't  do that, but it does export in TOD. You'll pay $800 for 3D
Studio Animator, plus another $1000 for Max. You choose, I like TS3,
but would like to also have Max, if I had $1800 to splurge with.  
   I have seen mention of a bunch of free 3D modelers, the name Rhino
comes to mind... Scan through all the messages in the 3D sections,
you'll see them mentioned. A few mentions were in the freetalk
sections too.

2D- CorelDraw 7.0 
   I don't know why Dennis dislikes CorelDraw, it has an excellent
program for creating textures. I admit I have not put it through the
rigors yet, but it was recomended to me, and I have not been
disapointed. I also got it for $130, since version 8 is now out.
   For free, everyone knows of the shareware for PhotoShopPro 5.0.

http://www.jasc.com/pspdl.html

Sound (the true bugger of yaroze programming, IMHO)-

Wavs- Cool Edit (shareware version available, lots of tutorials about)

http://www.softseek.com/Home_Family_and_Leisure/Music/Learning
_Playing_Creating_and_Printing_Music/Review_4231_index.html


Wav forms- Gold Wave (shareware available)

http://www.goldwave.com/

Midi SEQ uses-  Here's a page with lots of tools, WinJammer was
recomended to me some time ago, but I have not tried it yet:

http://drum.warwick.ac.uk/music/drum/dosseq.html

-Matt