[Official] Which tools do you use?

Hiya,
It's been a while since we did a check to see which tools people use in conjunction with Unity. I'd like to collect a list of tools that include anything you use to help you make games with Unity. This can cover concept art, image creation and manipulation, 3D modeling, audio authoring, source code editing, debugging, whatever.

Just reply to the thread and put down your bulleted list.

I will summarize the list periodically in this thread, and when it looks like we have got them I'll send out a survey to people that have enabled communication with us that includes all these tools so we can get a sense of which tools are most important to our users.

Thanks!
Brett

 

Visual Studio 2013 PRO

 

• Maya
• ZBrush
• Mudbox
• Photoshop
• xNormal
• Audacity
• Visual Studio with Resharper
• Google search

 

• Blender
• GIMP
• Inkscape
• xNormal

 

• Blender
• Photoshop
• VS Community(2013)
• LMMS
• Audacity
• BXFR
• Spacescape

 

• Acorn
• Art Text 2
• CrazyBump
• GlyphDesigner
• A real, live artist
• ImgOptim
• GitLab
• SourceTree
• BitTorrent Sync
• Ableton Live
• Native Instruments Komplete
• Scrivener
• Custom tools and scripts

 

• Blender
• Gimp
• Audacity
• OpenMPT
• MonoDevelop

 

• Blender
• GIMP
• Inkscape
• Audacity
  
• Fuse
  
• Substance Designer / Painter
• Houdini
  
• Marmoset Toolbag 2
  
• articydraft
  
• Black Ink

 

• Maya LT
• Photoshop
• Substance Designer / Painter
• Visual Studio Pro 2013
• Sublime Text 3
• Plastic SCM
• Articy Draft
• Inkscape
• Pro Tools

 

Maya LT
ZBrush
Photoshop
Substance Painter
Substance Designer
xNormal
Audacity
Reason

 

Lightwave 3D
ZBrush
IThoughts HD
Freeplane
3D Coat
Substance Painter
Substance Designer
Substance b2m
Inkscape
Painter
Gimp
Photoshop
Artrage
Krita
Scrapple
Scrivener
Silo
Ultimate Unwrap3D Pro
Vue
Audacity
VS Studio Community 2013 plus the Unity tools

and many assets from the store and some other little apps

 

blender
photoshop
ndo
ddo
xnormal
handplane
krita

 

Primary tools:

• Visual Studio 2013
• Maya LT
• Substance Designer & Painter
• Photoshop

A bunch of small, one-off, or try-outs, too numerous to mention.

 

Paint.net
Audacity
Chat Mapper
articy:draft
Git
Fuse
FaceFX

 

• VS
• PS
• Adobe Audition
• Blender

 

• Photoshop CC (+others from Adobe Cloud *Illustrator/vector support would be nice)
• Windows Calculator *would be nice to do calculations in inspector fields instead..
  
• 3ds Studio Max 2015
• SourceTree (+bitbucket)
• GoldWave
  
• Monodevelop
  
• Visual Studio Community edition 2013 (+Visual Studio Tools for Unity)
• Piskel
• ShaderForge
• MeshLab
• SceneCT
• Catia V5
• Autocad
• Dreamweaver CC
• WinSCP
• WorldMachine
• ..

 

MonoDevelop
Visual Studio 2013
Xcode
Sublime Text
Atom
Git
Mercurial
Sourcetree
Blender
Fuse
World Machine
SpeedTree modeller
Photoshop
Illustrator
Substance Designer
Substance Painter
Reason
Reaper
sfxr / cfxr

 

Maya LT 2015
Mudbox 2015
Photoshop
Illustrator
Insane Bump
Audacity

 

Visual Studio
Photoshop
Substance Painter / Designer
Blender
Audacity
Sourcetree + bitbucket

 

Blender
Substance Painter / Designer
3D-Coat
Gimp
Bitmap2Material
Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition

 

3DS Max 2015
Gimp
Zbrush

 

Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition
Paint.NET
Blender

 

Evernote
Visual Studio Ultimate
Fuse
MakeHuman
Blender
Bitmap2Material
Substance Painter
Substance Designer
Inkscape
The Gimp
Monodevelop
Sourcetree (Bitbucket)
Audacity
Notepad++

 

At work

- Visual Studio
- 3ds Max
- Photoshop
- Illustrator

At home

- Mono Develop
- Blender
- Krita
- Gimp

At both

- Audacity
- Sourcetree

 

• Blender
• Sublime Text
• Substance Designer
• Houdini

Edit: updated list!

 

3dsmax
PlasticSCM
Substance tools
Visual Studio 2013 with Resharper
Photoshop
ZBrush
Multi-scene Editing for team collaboration (via Advanced Additive Scenes)
Unity Cloud Build

 

• Blender
• Maya
• 3DS Max
• AutoCad
• VS 2013 Express
• MS SQL Express
• MonoDev (some times)
• Photoshop
• Gimp
• InkScape
  
• Wavosaur
• Notepad
• VirtualBox (platform testing)
• Make Human
• Character Generator (Autodesk website)
• IIS
• VNC Viewer
• Need For speed World (When my brains fried )

 

• Unity
• 3DS Max
• Z Brush
• Substance Designer
• Substance Painter
• Photoshop
• World Machine
• Logic Pro*
• Final Cut Pro*
• Sublime Text (ide!)

Various small utilities for stuff we make ourselves or purchase.
*On macs. We prefer to change machines rather than change software. Right tool > right hardware.

 

• Blender
• Photoshop
• Python (for build automation)
• Sublime Text
• Visual Studio 2013 with UnityVS and CodeRush
• Either Tortoise SVN or Atlassian SourceTree (depending on the client's choice of VCS).

 

• Visual Studio 2013/2015
• Team foundation server
• Pyxel
• Reason
• Audacity
• Inkscape
• Blender
• Photoshop
• Anime studio pro
• Texture Packer
• Notepad++

 

• Photoshop
• Maya
• Mudbox
• Sublime

Why not make a poll?

 

• Houdini
• 3DS Max
• Maya
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Sketchbook
• ProMotion
• ZBrush
• SpeedTree Studio (concept work/plates) / Modeler (RT)
• Substance Designer
• Substance Painter
• Quixel
• Mari
• AfterEffects
• Fusion
• VS2013
• UltraEdit (for photoshop'in text )

Lots of other little things that are indispensable but can't really be categorised. Prismacolor pencils!

 

• Substance Designer
• Substance Painter
• Topogun
• ZBrush
• Photoshop CS6
• Modo 801
  
• Maya LT
  
• Cinema 4D (Still R12) (*)
• ocasionally xNormal (*)

(*) only secondary any more or rarely used.

Asset Store extensions:

• Pro Builder/ProGrids
• ShaderForge
• Looking into PlayMaker, ATM

 

• Photoshop CC
• Blender
• MonoDevelop (this one is used A LOT)
• Audacity

I might also use a program called MakeHuman for a quick character to use for prototypes. So, add "MakeHuman" to that list, because I recommend it for a very quick character to use for prototypes.

 

Photoshop (CS6)
3ds Max (2014)
Audacity (latest)
Visual Studio (2013)
Inkscape

 

- Lightwave 3D
- Chronosculpt
- Photoshop
- Notepad++
- Sony Vegas

 

Main tools
- MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio
- Sketch
- Triumph
- SourceTree
- Xcode

Occasionally
- Photoshop
- ScreenFlow
- Final Cut Pro
- Modo

 

• 3ds max (Old version!)
• Photoshop
• Bitmap2Material 3 (Standalone)
• Audacity
• Storymill

 

• Maya LT
• Photoshop CC
• Audition CC
• TexturePacker
• Glyph Designer
• Visual Studio 2013 Community Ed.
• Scrivener

 

Photoshop
3dsMax
fragmotion
UNITY XD

 

MonoDevelop
Blender
Photoshop
Xcode
3D Coat
Adobe Audition
After Effects
MindNode Pro

 

• Autocad Civil3D
• 3D Studio Max Design
• Microstation Powercivil
• Safe FME
• Photoshop
• Maya
• Sketchup
• Autodesk Revit
• Plastic SCM
• Visual Studio 2013 Premium
• Azure
• Navisworks Manage
• Bitmap 2 Material
• Resharper
• Premiere Pro

 

Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Blender
Cinema 4D

 

Art Tools

• Modo
• Photoshop
• Maya LT
• Quixel DDO, NDO
• Adobe After Effects
• World Machine
• Face FX
• Z-Brush
• Substance Designer / Painter
• SpeedTree

Sound

• Pro Tools
• Samplitude (For mastering)

In Unity

• Terrain Composer
• SE Bloom
• Amplify Colour
• Pro Builder

 

Modo
Softimage
Photoshop
Substance Designer
Fuse
Samplitude
Daz3D

 

Visual Studio
3ds Max
Motion builder

 

Cheetah3D
Maya LT
GIMP
MeshLab
PVRTexTool
World Machine
Xcode
Visual Studio 2010 Express

 

Gimp
Blender
Unity
Paint.net
audacity
internet explorer
mono develop
{As you can see I only use free stuff cause im poor.}

 

wow I was not expecting this in 2015 haha ... sorry I couldn't resist

 

hay it is a program I use with unity. But I am real mad what unity did to unity 5 that I just found out.

They removed the treecreator asset and saying we need to drage out our wallets and buy speedtree.
Are you made about this to?