Useful Modding Programs

This is a list of useful proprietary software programs that can be used in modding. List maintained by -apocalypsis- here.

For lists of tools developed by members of the TW community see:

• Modding Tools for Medieval II - Total War
• Modding Tools for Rome - Total War

Installers

• Install Creator - Creates an Installer for your mod
• Inno Setup
• NSIS

Graphics

• Terragen - Landscape generator
• Apophysis - Fractal flame generator

2D Image Editing

• Gimp - 2D image editor
• IrfanView -
• Photoshop - NOT FREE
• Paint Shop Pro - NOT FREE
• Photoshop Elements - An inexpensive little brother of Photoshop - NOT FREE

3D Graphics Editing

• 3D Studio Max - NOT FREE. Required for Modelling Rome: Total War.
• Blender - Free. Used for modelling in Medieval II: Total War.
• Gmax - Free version of 3DS Max
• Milkshape 3D - Not free. Used for modelling Medieval II: Total War.

Text Editing

• Crimson Editor
• Notepad++
• TextPad

Screen Capturing

• FRAPS - Screen capture program (Video/Picture)
• GameCam

File Comparison

• ExamDiff
• SynchronX
• WinMerge

FTP Clients

• SmartFTP
• BlazeFTP

Archivers/Compressors

• WinRAR
• WinZip
• 7-Zip
• IZArc

Office Suites

• OpenOffice.org

Miscallaneous

• EZPad - HTML editor
• FileMon - File monitoring software
• Lupas Rename - File rename tool
• Pando - Personal p2p software