Useful Modding Programs

This is a list of useful programs that can be used in modding:

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 - Little brother of Photoshop - NOT FREE

3D Graphics Editing

• 3D Studio Max - NOT FREE
• Gmax - Free version of 3DS Max

Text Editing

• Crimson Editor
• Notepad++
• [http://www.textpad.com/ 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