Difference between revisions of "List of software"

Revision as of 06:52, 1 November 2024

Ship models etc. need to be converted to Oolite's ".dat" format

Wings3D Cross-platform; Free. Highly advised for Oolite. A quick tutorial by Aegidian -> OXP_howto_model
Meshwork OSX; Free.
3D mesh editor
Blender3D Cross-platform, Free, powerful 3D modeller.
Moray
UV Mapper (Pro), Mac and Windows, Texture mapping tool. Pro trial version for Windows available.
xNormal This does certain things better than Blender, producing better quality normals, height, ambient occlusion. Windows only.
Blacksmith3D-Paint Paint directly on to your model! It lets you paint straight over any seams in a manner that makes it very easy to see accurately which bits join exactly where. Windows and Mac.
Normal Map Combiner This utility is designed to combine two normal maps into one and to fix bad normal vectors in auto generated normal maps. Windows only.
Balancer Lite Windows + Mac. Features polygon reduction or mesh decimation for Wavefront (obj). Lite version is free for non-commercial purposes.
Oolite is low-poly, so any user-friendly 3D editor will do, provided it supports DAT or OBJ.

Exported objects may need optimization.

Blender Planet Textures
Terragen Mac + Windows. Terrain generator with export option to obj. Free version for non-commerical use available.
EarthSculptor Mac + Windows. Terrain generator with export option to obj. Free version for non-commerical use available.

Crimson Editor
Editplus
JEdit
SubEthaEdit (V2.2) (mac) - no syntax checkers for Javascript
SlickEdit (mac)
plistEdit V1.2
VS Code Visual Studio Code (mac, Linux, Windows) - has a Javascipt syntax checker, optional add-ons include .plist syntaxes
Programmers Notepad (windows) - has syntax checking for both javascript and xml
PListEditPro, OSX, highly recommended to switch between ascii and XML...
Notepad++, for Windows. Excellent Notepad replacement, with multi-language support.
Script Editor, OSX, part of the AppleMac package that is installed by default.
(g)Vim, a powerful cross-platform editor. A syntax highlighter for plist files is also available.
Overview of editors for various operating systems

cag's Python3 linter (catches missing ;'s, unquoted keys containing dashes, keys w/o values and delimiter errors) is here: bedeviled by missing ;'s? this may help (2018)

Debug OXP/Debug Menu OXP and other tools following the Oolite_debug_console_TCP_protocol
Python Cross platform language under Python Software Foundation License. For Oolites tools 2.6 (not 3.x!!) is required.

There are plenty other free editors and tools available, these are just a few.

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 * [http://www.vim.org/ (g)Vim], a powerful cross-platform editor. A [http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1223 syntax highlighter for plist files] is also available.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors Overview of editors for various operating systems]
+=== Linters ===
+* cag's Python3 linter (catches missing ;'s, unquoted keys containing dashes, keys w/o values and delimiter errors) is ''here'': [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=262800#p262800 bedeviled by missing ;'s? this may help] (2018)
 == Audio Tools ==