USEFUL SOFTWARE | Free, Open Source, Commercial

[Traggey]

These apps are mostly focused around my life as an artist.

Refboard -Reference image software, will always stay ontop any other apps and is super simple to use, I use it every day.

Alchemy -A really cool sketching software that works amazingly for creating silhouettes of characters and creatures, should be used as a companion app for any other image editing software.

Unreal Engine 4 -Because FUCK YEAH! By far the most graphicaly impressive game engine out there and with the new Blueprint system it makes scripting super simple for the idiot artists like me, and with full source exposed and the option to work with C++ this baby becomes an incredible beast to work with.

Xnormal - Xnormal is a texturemap baking software, used to create normal maps, ambient occlusion maps, cavity maps etc etc by projecting high poly surfaces onto low poly surfaces. Being entirely dedicated towards this task it is currently far superior in both quality and time spent rendering as compared to doing it within most 3D packages.

OBS - Open Broadcaster Software is a brilliant, free and open source way of streaming from your computer to services like Twitch or Livestream, this baby can also be used as a free alternative to something like FRAPS as it alows the user to record localy.

BitTorrent Sync Verision control software similar to SVN and Perforce, however this one does not require the users to own a server! It's Peer to peer and is super awesome for smaller teams.

Qbittorrent - Simple to use and look at torrenting software created as an alternative to μTorrent, this baby features no bloatware, no ads and is not blocked my major anime networks such as BakaBT for those of you who want to see them japtoons yo.

Dropbox - Dropbox! Share your files with yourself or others over the net, simply drag and drop into your dropbox folder and they will be accessable by whomever you choose anywhere! Brilliant little tool that I use daily. Free verision gives 2 G's of memory.

RocketDock - Rocketdock is a really neat docking software that adds a dock similar to what you would see on mac computers to your windows PC, it is highly customizable and with a simple image editing program you can personalize the entire look of it yourself. I am one of those freaks who creates a new icon for every single program I have installed just so that it will match the rest of my rocketdock icons, also helps keep your desktop clean!

CCCP - Don't let the scary website fool you, CCCP ( Combined Community Codec Pack ) is a must have for anyone who watches alot of movies, tv shows or anime on your computer! Adding support for mostly every single valuable video codec out there to your computer. It also comes with an installation option for Media Player Classic, which is my personal video viewing favourite.

Blendhurrr -Seriously, fuck Blender. You SUCK BLENDER!

DDO Legacy - A free option to the incredibly powerfull texturing tool by quixel. DDO Legacy an older verision of the tool which has now been released for free, although it does not come with PBR support making it non-efficient for newer games engines, it is still a very powerfull tool for modders who work alot with older games engines, such as HPL!

Free image editing tools that I would use any day over GIMP.

Krita
Paint Tool SAI
Paint.net