[LIST] Usefull Modding Tools

[AndalayBay]

IS, I think you mixed up the Additional links under OBMM and Wrye Bash

[washington]

Texture Replacer, very useful for troublesome nifs that behave strangely after using nifskope to retexture, like havoked signs that falls apart or waving flags that dont wave anymore.

There's an option when you save file in Nifskope, Auto sanitise before save. Maybe you should turn it off (or on) and see if that's causing you trouble?

[InsanitySorrow]

IS, I think you mixed up the Additional links under OBMM and Wrye Bash

Ooooops , Fixed

[Meo]

TES4LODGen

Im surprised its not in the list.

[Arthmoor]

There's an option when you save file in Nifskope, Auto sanitise before save. Maybe you should turn it off (or on) and see if that's causing you trouble?

Latest version of nifskope fixed that bug.

[InsanitySorrow]

TES4LODGen

Im surprised its not in the list.

Quite surprised myself, not sure how I missed it

[HeyYou]

Might want to add construction set extender as well.

Download.

Thread.

[InsanitySorrow]

You know, you could have just added that to the list , I wouldn't have poked you for it...honest

[HeyYou]

You know, you could have just added that to the list , I wouldn't have poked you for it...honest

Ya know, that never even occurred to me..... Don't wanna step on your toes editing your posts.

[InsanitySorrow]

With these lists I don't mind if the team edits them

[HeyYou]

I'll bear that in mind.

[Leonardo]

You can add Paint.NET (useful for DDS files), Notepad++ (you can view script inside of an esm/esp) and this Python addon for Gimp.

http://www.psychcomp.com/gimp-adding-python-support-windows/

[Semtex]

Look for "correct" model for use in your plugin is often time-consuming. NifPreview tool allows you to create previews of all or at least a majority of models in jpg format (creates trimmed screenshots). For its work needs Nifscope. It's a little slow at work, but in one night generated previews of almost all models of vanila Oblivion. Previews are in the same directories as models and have the same name as model NIF.

NifPreviev

[Artisanix]

here's a couple of links from me as I'm making some cleaning and delete various links from time to time, and such things may be useful for someone ;]

FotoSketcher

http://www.fotosketcher.com/

a little program whcih can easily make paintings-like pictures from vaious photos, can be useful for those who do not want to use any other more complex graphic editors like PS or GIMP...

ColorPic

http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

small little app which can pick info about any color under cursor - very usefull if you spot some colours you like and want to "save" them for later for your future drawing projects...

Tree[d]

http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about

very nice app which can generate 3D objects with various trees easily, and can export them to obj format, which can be imported to Blender

then we can add collision there and usually increase the size by 10 factor and such trees can be placed in game

I generated all trees for mysterious cave in my castle west weald this way...

[InsanitySorrow]

Thanks Trollf, I've added them to the list.

[The Vyper]

Great list of useful tools. Thanks for putting it together, IS.

You may want to redirect the TES4Files link to the TESNexus page. The current link to TES4Files is...well, just click on it several times. You probably won't be taken to the same place twice. I wasn't.

[InsanitySorrow]

Fixed

[AndalayBay]

I don't know what link you guys had for TES4Files before, but Mental Elf has the latest version of TES4Files here. He never uploaded it to Nexus. I've tested that link several times and never had a problem.

[Arthmoor]

Plus the Nexus entry is severely out of date and shouldn't be used. It's had several important fixes since then.

[InsanitySorrow]

The old link was to MentalElf's old site, I forgot to update when it was changed. Fixed it.

[alt3rn1ty]

IS here's another little beauty for the list ...

Reference the last bastion of BSA manipulation which Wrye Bash does not handle (Extracting and re-packing BSAs) - The only thing left a dedicated user of Wrye Bash would ever need OBMM for is now available in one nice little utility instead (and its portable, installation is just a case of extracting it and running from wherever you put it (with enough space for extracted BSAs ofc)).

I think if you havent seen it you will all be interested in BSAOpt

You can extract BSAs to the default 'out' folder (located in the folder you extract BSAOpt to), or you can paste the name of the BSA into the out path and it will re-pack the source BSA with the compression level you choose to the destination filename.

It retains filenames with leading spaces (for all you Pyffi fans, those meshes which dont work if the leading space of the filename is removed ... not a problem), and the optimization part of the name really is not BS, it has a new trick up its sleeve. I have repacked ALL of my Oblivion BSA's, with 0 (no) compression, and not one of them exceeds the 2gb limit

If you get any hash check errors with individual files from the source BSA then the utility you packed the source BSA with was at fault - There's a Skip Hash Check option which you can enable for a problem BSA which successfully copies the problem file across to your new BSA and then you have no further problems.

A note from the author ....

BTW if the producer of a BSA was BSA-Commander you can assume that any file which is not a DDS or a NIF has broken hashes. I analyzed the code of BSA-Commander and the hash-algorithm is AFAIS incomplete. In those cases you even have to use "Skip hash-check" and then consider BSAopt as a sanitizer. :^) Same for the header, BSA-Commander headers are half-right at best.

I found a couple of hash error files in BSAs which I had packed a while ago with OBMMex.

Ethatron has done a really good job of this, supports Skyrim too, read the comments while its no so big (no Bethsoft topic)

Windows XP not supported, only runs on Vista or 7.

The speed of this thing is stunning.

Sold ?

Edited December 6, 2011 by alt3rn1ty

[InsanitySorrow]

Added to the list

[LeftyScaevola]

I am liking the result of the OBVA Synth utility  I have heard so far.  Sounds very much like the voice actors.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/50697

 

"AI tool for high quality voice acting synthesis using in-game voices from video games"

 

I am hoping a good number of authors go back to their unvoiced mods and use this to update them to voiced.

Edited July 9, 2021 by LeftyScaevola