TorchModders big list of useful modding tools



3D Modeling & Animation

Blender - A free and open source 3D animation suite.
- Related Wiki page: [wiki]torchlight_to_blender_import_export[/wiki]
 - torchlight-to-blender - A Torchlight(Ogre) to Blender importer (with exporter)
 - OgreXmlConverter - A command-line tool that can convert binary .mesh and .skeleton files to XML and back again.

 - Blender2Ogre - An exporter which writes Ogre mesh and skeleton files as XML.

Joof - A wxwidgets front end for OgreXmlConverter and MeshUpgrade that will simplify work with them.

Homebrew Animation Tools

Animation Combiner Tool by Khazad
- Allows combining 2 or more animations together.

CCC's Animation Converter by CCCenturion, updated by Chthon
- Transcribes .SKELETON files to be usable by armatures other than the one the animation was originally created for

Animation Retimer by Abramoff and Kva3imoda
- Allows editing the timing of an animation as well as "cutting up" animations.

Translation Tools

Torchlight2<translate>, by Abramof and Kva3imoda

Audio Editors

Audacity - A free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.


Code & Text Editors

Notepad ++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.

Geany - A text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.

Vim - An advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.

TL2 Item DAT Maker - A tool that automates generating unit .DAT files for armor items. Made by @Vkoslak

PMPE - An automated Skill and Affix Iterator by: Arkander


Image Editors

GIMP - A versatile graphics manipulation package.
 - GIMP DDS Plugin - A plugin for GIMP version 2.8.x. It allows you to load and save images in the Direct Draw Surface (DDS) format.


Image Viewers

XnView - An efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter.

IrfanView - A very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.


Mesh Viewers

Dusho's Torchlight Mesh Viewer - A neat little viewer for viewing .MESH models and previewing their available animations.

Nimet - An advanced Ogre3D Mesh and dotScene viewer.

Ogre Mesh Tool - A handy tool to view Ogre3D meshes. Also imports a variety of 3d formats


Other / Misc

TL2 Tag Fixer - Fix bad unpacks of mods due to the "Found group/property name with a hashcode (XXXXXXX) that has no match in tags.dat" error in GUTS.

TIDBI - Torchlight II Item Database - A database program containing all Torchlight II items.

Rename Master - A freeware utility designed to rename multiple files with a just few clicks.

TextCrawler - A tool to find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders.

XMind - A popular mind mapping tool.

I use it for mapping out the skill trees. I feel it's easier to organize my notes and it gives me a better overview, compared to working with documents and text files.