TorchModders big list of useful modding tools3D Modeling & AnimationBlender - A free and open source 3D animation suite.
- Related Wiki page: [wiki]torchlight_to_blender_import_export[/wiki]
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torchlight-to-blender - A Torchlight(Ogre) to Blender importer (with exporter)
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OgreXmlConverter - A command-line tool that can convert binary .mesh and .skeleton files to XML and back again.
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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 ToolsAnimation 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 ToolsTorchlight2<translate>, by Abramof and Kva3imoda
Audio EditorsAudacity - A free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Code & Text EditorsNotepad ++ - 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 EditorsGIMP - A versatile graphics manipulation package.
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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 ViewersXnView - An efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter.
IrfanView - A very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.
Mesh ViewersDusho'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 / MiscTL2 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.