Toolchain

I view a good toolchain as being extremely important. Maybe in some theoretical world you can argue all that matters is how good a coder someone is. However in practice a lot of other factors play in as well. We have put a lot of thought and research into various toolchain ideas. When choosing a toolchain our goal is first and foremost to use a tool that we know will work and a tool that is fun to use. We are very fortunate to be able to get software donated to us. We would like to thank Microsoft and Perforce for donating software to us and we would like to thank NVidia for donating hardware.

Visual Studio .NET

Development will be done in C++

DirectX SDK

NVidia GeForce 3 or above

We need a video card with a vertex and pixel shader

Microsoft Office 2002

For writing design documents and to create this webpage

Microsoft Visio Professional 2002

For creating UML diagrams

Doxygen

To document our project

Perforce

Source code management

Photoshop

For creating textures

Milkshape

For creating models

Hypercam

To record in game videos

Windows XP Professional

MSN Messenger

Winamp 2.80

To maintain sanity