please for gods sake!!!!!!! stop using EV-edit now!! I was using it for about three weeks, and once when i booted it up i had found that everysingle thing i had done had been trashed! Trust me, that will happen to you soon enough.
Res edit isn't hard to use, infact in many ways its easier than EV-edit to use, but the system placing is a bit hard obviously, but you can get around that easily enough.
For graphix I use Strata Vision and Pixels 3D for doing 3D (If you can get back issues of Mac Addict, get #38, it has those two 3D programs for FREE plus another one, which has a time limit!) and I use Adobe Photoshop to import the 3D and turn it into a sprite, but all those programs if you can't get them for free or off your dad (photoshop photoshop) they all end up costing you about $3000, but you don't need the graphix programs i use, if you are just doing wee graphix, not making 64 ships like i am for my plug in...
hope this helps, have safe sex, and don't use EV-edit!
dude5432
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