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I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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If you're using RPG Maker 2000 or 2003, iDraw is a nice, very simple graphics editor for 256 color .png images, which is what RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 use for all their graphics. It was actually designed specifically for use with RPG Maker 2000, and is a free program made by fans of RPG Maker.
The newer RPG Makers don't have color limitations and so iDraw can't open their graphics. You can make 256 color graphics in iDraw and use them in RPG Maker XP/VX/Ace if you want, but you can't make or edit true-color graphics in iDraw. In other words, you can't edit the RTP, and you can't edit 99% of the custom graphics people have made. So most people use Gimp (which is free) or Photoshop (which is not worth the $300 cost, but is a better program if you can get a hold of it from your job or from the pirate bay or something)
As far as music, very few people compose their own music. Audacity is a popular free composition program but the most I've ever used it for is cropping songs so they loop better. I also use Switch Sound File Converter (which is shareware and constantly asks me to pay for it) for taking the weirdly-formatted sound effects I download from freesound.org and converting them to .ogg format for RPG Maker to use. Unless you're a composer that's probably the most you'll ever have to do. There's such an abundance of usable music out there already that everyone just looks around the internet for songs to use. It's not like graphics where they have to be specifically made for RPG Maker to work correctly.
The newer RPG Makers don't have color limitations and so iDraw can't open their graphics. You can make 256 color graphics in iDraw and use them in RPG Maker XP/VX/Ace if you want, but you can't make or edit true-color graphics in iDraw. In other words, you can't edit the RTP, and you can't edit 99% of the custom graphics people have made. So most people use Gimp (which is free) or Photoshop (which is not worth the $300 cost, but is a better program if you can get a hold of it from your job or from the pirate bay or something)
As far as music, very few people compose their own music. Audacity is a popular free composition program but the most I've ever used it for is cropping songs so they loop better. I also use Switch Sound File Converter (which is shareware and constantly asks me to pay for it) for taking the weirdly-formatted sound effects I download from freesound.org and converting them to .ogg format for RPG Maker to use. Unless you're a composer that's probably the most you'll ever have to do. There's such an abundance of usable music out there already that everyone just looks around the internet for songs to use. It's not like graphics where they have to be specifically made for RPG Maker to work correctly.
Personally, I use Photoshop CS4 for spriting and LMMS for music creation.
Photoshop should be fairly self-explanatory, and a good alternative is Paint Shop Pro, but unfortunately I don't have any recommendations for free software to use. My advice, though, is to avoid using a program like Paint Tool SAI, because, although you can make binary art with it, you can't really go in and edit pixel by pixel very well.
LMMS is a freeware music writing program that can export to both wav files, such as those used in RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, and midi files. I also use Audacity for minor editing to completed pieces, and for voice recordings.
Photoshop should be fairly self-explanatory, and a good alternative is Paint Shop Pro, but unfortunately I don't have any recommendations for free software to use. My advice, though, is to avoid using a program like Paint Tool SAI, because, although you can make binary art with it, you can't really go in and edit pixel by pixel very well.
LMMS is a freeware music writing program that can export to both wav files, such as those used in RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, and midi files. I also use Audacity for minor editing to completed pieces, and for voice recordings.
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MS Paint ._.
I use Anvil Studio for midi editing, and Audacity for wav (and mp3) editing.
I use Anvil Studio for midi editing, and Audacity for wav (and mp3) editing.
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