Category Archives: Free stuff

For some reason, my favourite IDE.

Well, tied with Microsoft’s Visual Studio.

Then again, I’m not much of a programmer, just small snippets of code, basic day to day use programs, etc.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Krita:

https://krita.org/

Slow as all hell in my PC at least, but seems pretty robust.

MyPaint:

http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ now at http://mypaint.org/

Very barebones GUI (in my opinion), but fast and decent feature wise.

SmoothDraw:

http://smoothdraw.com/

Much like MyPaint, basic GUI, but with a good performance; seems to have less features than MyPaint.

(added: Oct/2016)

FireAlpaca:

http://firealpaca.com

I’ve known it for a while, actually I knew it when I first wrote this post, for some reason I forgot to include it, must have wanted all the alpacaey goodness for myself.

It’s a drawing software, that has an alpaca as mascot.
Great performance and relatively lightweight.
Even has an easy to use vanishing point feature so you get the perspective right.
My go-to for quick doodling (I suck at drawing, doodling is as far as I go)

I rarely post on the free stuff section, today is one of those rare days.

C# Yellow Book

http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/

Most people interested in C# (pretend it’s C Sharp) probably already saw a link to this free book floating around on the web. I still haven’t read it – read only maybe 10 pages, should print it – and it seems nice.

So…download it and read it, the worst that can happen is that you end up wasting a couple of hours trying to educate yourself, which can be a good or bad thing, depending on your life philosophy.

Helping my most visited site (~1k uniques/day) run on a free webhost, so it must be good.  

cloudflare.com

I normally use it to backup my project files and other misc files.

https://www.dropbox.com/

Seamless texture generator by Allegorithmic, free, unfortunately it seems to be abandoned, but still works pretty well.

http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/

My favorite lightweight image editing software. End.

http://www.getpaint.net/

One word: minimalistic.

Feature wise it’s lacking a lot, but the minimalistic approach makes me like it.

Home

If someone wonders why I haven’t posted blender. That’s because…fuck you! that’s why! ie. I like blender for what it wants to be – free and feature rich -,  but hate it for what it actually is – 99.9% of the community behind it are blind fanatics and the interface…god…the interface!! – but I’ll leave that for a future rant.

Just by chance I remembered this one.

Pretty nice if you want to start learning 3D sculpting without robbing a bank first.

http://www.sculptris.com/

*edit*

Now acquired by Pixologic. You might want to think about the best bank to rob…