Editing Tools
This is a article about editing tools, which are NOT specificly for ArmA, or Falcon 4 or OFP. They are just the backbone of any good developers arsenal.
You can always use windows notepad, but its a pain, so here is few much better text editing utilities.
EditPad Pro
Excellent text editor with syntax highlighting and other features.
Homepage here.
Notepad++
Its a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
Homepage here.
Adobe PhotoShop
The industry standard image editing program, somewhat difficult to learn for beginners but this tool really is feature rich and good to use (once you master it).
Homepage here.
Jasc Paint Shop Pro
PSP is much lighter and easier to use than PS.
Recently Jasc was purchased by Corel, so now they say PSP is located in their web page, go figure if its the same tool anymore.
Homepage (Corel) here.
GIMP
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Homepage here.
Adobe Acrobat Professional
Not really image editing, but. Acrobat pro creates good PDF files. There is many free PDF creators also, but its luck if you find one that really works as you want it to be.
Homepage here.
3DS Max
The heavy hardcore industry standard 3d modeling and animation program.
Homepage here.
Gmax
Gmax is a light version of 3DS Max, aimed for gaming community, its free of charge but is not supported anymore.
Homepage here.
Blender
Quite popular free of charge program.
Homepage here.
LightWave
Another well known, big bulky modeling program.
Homepage here.
ZBrush 3
Homepage here.
Cinema 4D
Homepage here.
SketchUp
Homepage here.
MilkShape
Homepage here.
MudBox
Homepage here.
Polygon Cruncher
Util that will remove polygons from your objects, can easily help by creating lower poly resolution LODs.
Homepage here.
Modo 301
Model, paint, render, animate, sculpt. Their homepage also has nice coverage of video tutorials. On few of those tutorials Modo seems like very powerful modeling program.
Homepage here.
Cool Edit Pro / Adobe Audition
Cool Edit Pro changed its name to Adobe Audition. Integrated audio recording, mixing, editing, and mastering. Record, mix, edit, and master digital audio files with powerful tools that bring flexibility and control to your desktop studio.
Homepage here.
GoldWave
GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor.
Homepage here.
Steinberg WaveLab 6
WaveLab 6 - Audio Editing and Mastering Suite. WaveLab 6 is the all-in-one solution for professional mastering, high resolution multi-channel audio editing, audio restoration, sample design and radio broadcast work right through to complete CD/DVD-A production.
Homepage here.
Sound Forge
Precision, Stability, Ease, and Speed. The Sound Forge 9 professional digital audio production suite includes everything you need to quickly get from raw audio to finished master.
Homepage here.
Zip
ZIP was hardcore the good old times, now its dying away. DO NOT USE ZIP anymore, just use RAR nowadays as its better in all areas.
Homepage here.
RAR
The best and scene accepted archiver program, both for linux and in pc. It will make the packets much smaller than zip, maybe even 25-50mb on large files, its amazing difference. RAR can also open zips and many other archive formats. Make no mistake, RAR is the way to go.
Homepage here.
