Making Programs ?

What do you use to create applications ? Is it that excel & visual basic thing ?

I use Microsoft's VC++ 6.0 Professional Edition. =D

-Fredric

VC++ Enterprise =D

I assume that you've downloaded them somewhere (KaZaA for example).
But I understand that, because hardly no one in the mod community can afford such tools.

Most colleges offer very, very large discounts on such programs, as long as you are enrolled (or you know someone that's enrolled that can get it for you ;P)

I bought my vc++ from legal sources. I'm not cheap, and I've almost had a few games published (if only they didn't suck...), so I need legal tools for the build..

-Fredric

You can afford that?

maybe you can get discounts from college, but you still gotta afford college :bgrun:

Well, think of it this way. If you pay for college, you'll make about as much as you spent going though your first year, depending on you profession. But if you were to need to buy something like that, im sure you would be. And when you get it for a slashed price, you start out with everything you need and it didnt cost you much at all. Basicly, if you can get the money, even through a student loan, for college, do it. Its more than worth it.

Yeah, sometimes business requires you go ahead and buy these.

For example, I've actually shelled out over 7,000$ in the past 2 years on 3D Graphics applications.... and will likely spend more than that.

When you consider that freelance modelling and brokering artwork have earned me more than 3 times that in the past 2 years, I think it was well worth the investment (and no, that isn't the only work I do... that's just what I've made from that specifically, oding it freelance and part-time).

MVC++ 6.0 Pro edition only costed 80$. That was pocket change back in the day when I had a job. =D

-Fredric

OK, 80$ seems realistic, but 7000$ as FM_DraX said.... That's pretty much0_o.

I have some friends in college and I got VC++ 6.0 Enterprise for $20. Once I'm enrolled next year, I'll get my own version before the license runs out =P

Well, that $7K is for modelling applications, not for programming tools.

Yes, 7k is reasonable to a business if you're looking to actually sell this stuff for a profit.. That's why they have school versions and stuff like that for the people who aren't going to be making a lot of money.. If they didn't charge that much, then they wouldn't be able to pay for all the programmers/modellers that spent years developing the first class software..

-Fredric