I’m currently converting a few dozen Megascan packages over to the format for my project and it made me realize my overwhelming desire for a tool that specializes in categorizing textrue data and doing texture packing where it makes sense. But that’s a future discussion. It made me realize that over the years I’ve created a list of tools that getts roughly divided into:
This is handy!
Neat but I don’t see myself using it.
So simple, tied to a shortcut, will become used frequently.
I will borderlinei refuse to work on a computer without this app.
This list is largely for wider coverage of use cases; I’m working on a post for more workflow-specific software.’
This is far from a revolutionary blog post but, hey, I’m still sticking my feet back in the water.
There’s no real rhyme or reason with what really sticks but when it comes to the Hall of Fame of computer tools we’ve got:
Windows/Mac screen shot tool— The Mac one is more elegant but I argue the Windows one is more practical.
Numi — A handy notepad-like calculator that lets you write down and reuse equations (or refer to them later). I just discovered this is a Windows app now too.
VS Code — One of the greatest IDEs ever created; it’s accessible, expandable, obscenely well-supported, pretty lean (as those types of apps go), and serves a wide variety of utilities.
Windows PowerToys — It feels unfair to bundle every program in this archive seperately since there are so many good ones, but some of the stand-outs:
Windows Terminal (iTerm 2 on Mac) — Just sublime terminal containers that support the variety actual types of terminals we all luse on a given day. The bonus points here go to Windows Terminal for hitting stability so quickly and because I really like how mine has integrated with oh-my-posh.
Microsoft Edge — I swear, it’s good now everyone.
OBS— Free, easy to use, variety of output formats supported, universal hotkey support; it’s perfect for recording video on-demand.
Examples
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