Hi. Is there any open source texture editor comparable to Spiral Graphics’ Genetica?
Why? Are you looking to understand the code and make changes and help develop the application?
Or do you just want something for free? 
Why? Are you looking to understand the code and make changes and help develop the application?
Or do you just want something for free?
I don’t know how to respond to your insult. A lot of people with lots of money to spend on commercial apps prefer open source – architects, engineers, artists, you name it. Whatever their reasons, who am I to ask something like that? In my limited mind open source apps are nothing with very few users.
About a year ago I bought a Blender guide book from a local bookshop (Chapters-Indigo.ca) online. I didn’t have to. I could always grab an html or pdf file on the net for free. But I felt that’s my way of contributing to the developers’ labor.
Paying 400+USD for only one part of a hobby is crazy too.
Try using logic. I don’t want to start a flame war, but don’t try to play it off. You want free stuff. I’m not suggesting you want to steal the code, you just want a good, free texture creator. That’s fine. But don’t pretend you have some higher reason.
If you have tons of money and you do this commercially, then you’re a fool to not use commercial software. Why? Because people’s lives depend on it. Something doesn’t work? It’ll be fixed. Today. Cause 40 programmers and a whole Q.A. department, and everyone down to the tech reps who man the phones and the cute receptionist Dave in Accounting thinks he’s got a chance with… they ALL need to pay their rent, grocery bills, etc.
Commercial software has more users in commercial environments*. Go figure. Income is a good motivator. Larger userbase, larger everything - 3rd party apps to integration into other programs and methodologies, and a transferrable skill set.
There are plenty of reasons to want OSS/GPL, but very few of them have anything to do with business. It’s about comprehension and the ability to modify something to make it do what YOU want, collaboration by proxy.
- That doesn’t imply they paid for it. I find that most commercial shops use free stuff because it’s FREE. I did tech support in the architecture industry in NYC… You wouldn’t believe the amount of professional shops, famous, multi-million dollar shops employing 100 engineers and a dozen some renowned top-level architects, using 100% pirated software. I saw more cloned ACAD12 license floppies and 3DSMax cracks in a year than the biggest pirate site has ever seen. When one high-rise complex project would have paid for everything in the whole shop. They bought the desks. The pay the salaries. They pay the electricty bill. They even buy the computer hardware. Hmm. (And people bitch that XP needs to phone home.)
PS: it’s not an insult, it’s a sarcastic reply. It’s fine to want free stuff. 
Nonetheless, did you try the app? Is it something you think will work?
LOL !
You’re kidding right ?
Fixed today ?
Ok, maybe it gets fixed today, but I bet the average Max / XSI … heck Microsoft Word user doesn’t actually see the fix until the next version release … XXX months later.
Not that OSS is better / worse in that regard …
Something like Blender, and maybe a few other OSS programs are probably the exception with their “Ton’s” and other dedicated programmers, who are basically working on the program every day.
Commercially, SideFx Houdini seems to also be in that category with daily builds of their software released in response to user feedback.
There may be many others that I’m not aware of, but in general I’d say most commercial software is far from “instant fix” status.
Mike
Exactly. But the guy assumed he knew me personally. I don’t use any 3d for commercial purposes. I’m in the learning stage. It’s an on and off process for me depending on my mood and time. I don’t even need textures at the moment. All I’m doing now is for some future thing like maybe it will become more than a hobby someday. I don’t even know if this is just day dreaming or something. It’s very possible that I may drop this hobby altogether. I don’t know. But the guy felt the need to insult me and say I just want something for free. It’s as if open source developers do it for altruistic reasons. They do it mainly out of their love of programming. They enjoy it. Just like an artist who wants to share his work after painting it. The more admirers, the better the feeling.
Seems to me that he doesn’t even have any clue how important it is to have a multitude of supporters of your app to elevate to the same level as Blender now.
If you think that’s an insult, I’ll PM you an actual one. Just so you can tell the difference.