Torchmodders
Modding => Tips & Tools => Topic started by: Wolven on August 19, 2014, 01:45:29 am
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TorchModders big list of useful modding tools
3D Modeling & Animation
Blender (http://www.blender.org/) - A free and open source 3D animation suite.
- Related Wiki page: [wiki]torchlight_to_blender_import_export[/wiki]
- torchlight-to-blender (https://code.google.com/p/torchlight-to-blender/) - A Torchlight(Ogre) to Blender importer (with exporter)
- OgreXmlConverter (http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/OgreXmlConverter) - A command-line tool that can convert binary .mesh and .skeleton files to XML and back again.
- Blender2Ogre (https://bitbucket.org/MindCalamity/blender2ogre) - An exporter which writes Ogre mesh and skeleton files as XML.
Joof (http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Joof) - A wxwidgets front end for OgreXmlConverter and MeshUpgrade that will simplify work with them.
Homebrew Animation Tools
Animation Combiner Tool (http://torchmodders.com/forums/mod-showcase/(tool)-animation-combiner/msg5610/#msg5610) by Khazad
- Allows combining 2 or more animations together.
CCC's Animation Converter (http://torchmodders.com/forums/3d-modelling-animation/cccenturion's-animation-converter-ported-for-python-3-(v0-3a)/msg3002/#msg3002) 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 (http://torchmodders.com/forums/kva3imoda's-playground/animation-keyframe-editing/msg2572/#msg2572) by Abramoff and Kva3imoda
- Allows editing the timing of an animation as well as "cutting up" animations.
Translation Tools
Torchlight2<translate> (http://torchmodders.com/forums/tips-tools/(tool)-tl2-translation-utility/msg11046/#msg11046), by Abramof and Kva3imoda
Audio Editors
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) - A free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Code & Text Editors
Notepad ++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/) - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/) - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
Geany (http://www.geany.org/) - A text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
Vim (http://www.vim.org/) - 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 (http://torchmodders.com/forums/tips-tools/(request)-item-unit-file-maker-script-624/msg10291/#msg10291) - A tool that automates generating unit .DAT files for armor items. Made by @Vkoslak
PMPE (http://torchmodders.com/forums/tips-tools/pmpe-arkander's-automated-skill-and-affix-iterator/) - An automated Skill and Affix Iterator by: Arkander
Image Editors
GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) - A versatile graphics manipulation package.
- GIMP DDS Plugin (https://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/) - 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 (http://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/) - An efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter.
IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) - A very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.
Mesh Viewers
Dusho's Torchlight Mesh Viewer (https://code.google.com/p/torchlight-mesh-viewer/) - A neat little viewer for viewing .MESH models and previewing their available animations.
Nimet (http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=77317) - An advanced Ogre3D Mesh and dotScene viewer.
Ogre Mesh Tool (https://code.google.com/p/ogre-meshtool/) - A handy tool to view Ogre3D meshes. Also imports a variety of 3d formats
Other / Misc
TL2 Tag Fixer (http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=60532) - 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 (http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=60034) - A database program containing all Torchlight II items.
Rename Master (http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/) - A freeware utility designed to rename multiple files with a just few clicks.
TextCrawler (https://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/textcrawler.html) - A tool to find and replace words and phrases across multiple files and folders.
XMind (http://www.xmind.net/) - A popular mind mapping tool.
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Hey Wolven! I'm familiar with Xmind, but am really curious how you are using it for modding? :)
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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.