Unreal Engine is a state-of-the-art real-time engine and editor that features photorealistic rendering, dynamic physics and effects, lifelike animation, robust data translation, and much more—on an open, extensible platform that won’t tie you down. The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games. Written in C++, the Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability, supporting a wide range of platforms.

Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Users can change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions that add additional functionality.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, websites, web apps, web services, and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store, and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.

For Individuals

Any developer can use Visual Studio Community to create free or paid apps.

For Organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open-source projects.

For All Other Usage Scenarios

In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open-source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

VLC media player is a free, open source software, designed to play videos and audio files. It supports a wide range of formats, including MPEG4, DivX, and WAV files. It is also able to convert between various media formats and allows users to customize their videos.

VS Codium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor Visual Studio Code.

WinSCP is a free and open-source SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, Amazon S3 client, and SCP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level.

xNormal is a free program designed for the sole purpose of generating various kinds of texture maps from 3D meshes. xNormal allows you to generate normal, ambient occlusion, and displacement maps. xNormal includes an interactive 3D viewer (with advanced shaders and real-time soft shadows/glow effect), some Photoshop filters, and importers/exporters for 3ds Max and Maya.

ZBrushCoreMini is designed for new artists of all ages, with a streamlined interface that lets anyone jump right in and start sculpting without needing to spend time learning a bunch of menus, palettes, and settings. ZBrushCoreMini includes Sculptris Pro. This is a ground-up redesign of the tesselation sculpting system that put Sculptris on the map.