tools placed here for reference until (if) they are moved above into the game framework design

textile

2d packing of bitmaps (with varying width, height, and bitdepth) subject to constraints into another bitmap works fine, but isn't really needed anymore? (hardware) KevinSeghetti: Actually, the industry desperately needs this tool, they just don't know it. I find playing modern games quite annoying due to texture cache issues (in X-Wing Alliance everything freezes for a second when the star destroyer first appears while its textures are sent to the video card). All of this is avoided by pre-packing the textures instead of letting DirectX or OpenGL try to manage them for you.

• update config files to be scripting language or xml
• update iff input/output to xml
• use standard image library (for lots of formats and code savings) (like chargrab)

perl.r reg stripper xcd

iff2lvl iffcomp iffdb iffdump

• use xml

debugging tools: lvldump oaddump

prep

macro processing language (see also Prep and PrepDesignGoals)

• would like it to have passing named parameters (e.g., var => 3.14) or to find something that does
  • KevinSeghetti: Done

aicomp

• deprecated* see above and below about using other scripting languages
• scripting language interface class (this has mostly been done)
• todo: look into what's required to compile the scripting languages (mostly to bytecodes, but possibly also to c) and/or caching the bytecodes created when code is run

imagedir

generates image galleries deprecated

• using something else instead
• * put suggestions here
• ** i have a TWiki plugin for image galleries
• * KevinSeghetti: I use igal , see http://tenetti.org/clt/07122002/ for an example of its output

template

simple keyword/variable substitution in a text file

• simple perl script
• in future, probably want xml tranformation programs and procedures