Tool Reference - HWRM/KarosGraveyard GitHub Wiki
Modding tools and utilities for Homeworld Remastered.
Tool Collections
- Homeworld Universe Mod Tools collection A large collection of modding tools (abbreviated HWU Tools).
- gilligan_f's HW1/HW2/HWRM Tool Collection A massive collection of modding tools, files must be downloaded individually.
- Homeworld 2 Mod Tools A small collection of HW2 modding tools.
- HW2 Modding Tools Archive HW2 modding tools compiled as a single archive.
- DLLs for Tools These DLLs may be needed for some older tools.
- Gearbox Modding Tutorials Master Thread Contains links to many HWRM tools, which are also listed below.
- RelicNews List of Tools A stickied thread at RelicNews.
- RelicNews List of Open Source Tools
- RDN Tools Modding tools released by Relic Entertainment.
Big Archive Extractors/Creators
- archive.exe by Gearbox
- XUnpack - .big decryption and extraction GUI by @Xercodo
The following Big tools are depreciated but occasionally still useful:
- RDN Tools archive.exe by Relic Entertainment. Documentation for "archive.exe".
- SpookyRAT by Spooky. Download
- unfBig Big Extractor & Lua Decompiler by unfunf. Download
- HW2 Big Extractor by Delphy. Download [Dead Link. -Mikali, 2006-01-29]
- Big Decrypter No longer needed after the HWRM 2.0 patch.
- LoneWolf Archiver alternative to Relic's Archive.exe for Homeworld2 & HomeworldRM by lone wolf akela.
Script Decompilers
- CFLuaDC A Lua decompiler by 4E534B.
Text Editors
- VS Code Text editor with advanced code highlighting features.
- Notepad++ Text editor with code highlighting.
- Sublime Text Text editor with code highlighting.
- List of LUA-supporting text editors
- SciTE A text editor with support for Lua syntax highlighting, as well as running scripts via a console.
Steam
- DepotDownloader Tool for retrieving previous versions of a Steam repository. Used to download "pre v2.0" files.
- Workshop Uploader upload any files to Homeworld steam workshop. By lone wolf akela.
Multiplayer
- Multi-Player Stats Browser
- Homeworld 2 Game Script for mIRC by Reki. Launch and automatically create a hosted Direct Connect game in IRC chat. Note: It may be possible to create a similar script for HWRM.
Scripting
- HW2 Starting Fleets Editor by ZaTcH
- Quick Edit Edit build and research manager by jpaugh78.
- HW2 Ship-Script Editor A *.ship file creation utility by ZaTcH.
- New ship importing/exporting spreadsheet by evillejedi.
- HW2 Reference Investigator by ZaTcH. Verifies the existence of .wepn, .wf, and .miss files referenced by .ship and .wepn files.
- NIS Editor by 4E534B. A tool to create and edit Non-Interactive Sequences.
- HW2 Modding Tools for Textpad by OlmyS. A clip library and syntax highlighting file for use with Textpad.
- HW2 Pretty-Printer by Mikali. A pretty-printer for LUA 4 code.
- Vm Merge A helpful lua utility!
- LuaBinaries Download site for Lua binaries.
Mapping
- Payday's Map Editor by @PayDay
- HW2 Map Editor 3d HW2 and HWRM map maker by skunk RelicNews Discussion
- MissionDude 2d level editor by Mikali. Has advanced features for easy creation of complex shapes.
- MissionBoySE level editor by Delphy.
- Lathe of Sajuuk by Vapidfire.
- HW2RandMap by Age2uN.
- HW1 to HW2 Map Converter by Mikali.
- HW2 Map Exporter for 3dsMax by KaMe.
- Flashworld II by Tann San.
- Camera Tool by Le Sun Tzu. This is a gamerule that lets you save camera coordinates.
- Internal Level Editor by EhraniNavy. A gamerule that lets you position ships and save the coordinates. Based on Le Sun Tzu's camera script, above.
- HW2 Thumbnail Text Template by Mikali. A template for adding text to level thumbnails.
- HW2 Proofreader by EhraniNavy. This tool double-checks your level files for errors.
Weapon
- Weapon Editor by Xercodo
- HW2 Weapon-Script Editor by ZaTcH. Allows easy editing of the *.wepn files to modify weapon damage, accuracy, etc.
Stats and Balance
- Stats Tool Shows Ship, Weapon, Research, Subsystem and UnitCap stats from Homeworld Remastered.
- Updated RDN Tuning Spreadsheets by Mikali. Cleaned up versions of the spreadsheets included with the RDN toolkit.
- Balance Screen Used to spawn units and test them in combat.
- Balance Testing A list of methods/tools to balance test units.
Dump
- ThoughtDump.lua A gametype for creating script dumps by Thought & Mikali.
- PrintNamespaces by Mikali. Checks for known namespaces. To be used in case "ThoughtDump.lua" doesn't work. [Not really that useful. -Mikali]
Graphics
- FxToolRM by radar3301
- NIS Tool by radar3301
- .ROT Tool by Spooky. Allows you to create .ROT images, as well as extract the source images from them.
- .rot to .bmp and .bmp to .rot converter by KennyMcCormick.
- NVIDIA Texture Tools DDS Plugin/Converter by nVidia.
- .DDS Converter by Yannick 'Bluehair' Leon. Converts various image formats to .DDS.
- Background Creation Tool No, it's not finished, yet; but, Crook has released his source code.
- .AVI Converter by Jaen-ni-rin. Converts .AVIs to HW2's special DivX format.
- DXGM Patcher by Jaen-ni-rin. Makes HW2 divX files openable by normal DivX players.
- GUILayout by Relic. A thread describing how to get the tool, GUILayout, from the Incredible Creatures toolkit to work with HW2.
- Font Editor by Crook.
- HWRM Font Creator by lone wolf akela
Model Editors
Modeling
- HODOR (Installed by Steam here)
- RODOH Converts HW2C HOD to DAE (Installed by Steam here)
- HODOREST- Hodor GUI by Xercodo
- HOD Fixer - Fixes broken DAEs from RODOH, by 506933395
- DAEnerys - DAE Ship Editor General purpose editor used for creating HWRM HODs by PayDay and radar3301
- CFHodEd Tool for manipulating HWRM .hod files. Does not work with post-2.0 patch HODs.
- CFHodEdit by 4E534B. A HOD file editor.
- HODEd by pipakin.
- HOD Read/Write Class Library by pipakin (see the fourth post).
- HOD Manager FE by Mikali. This is a graphical frontend for the command-line HODEd.
- unfHODEd by unfunf. A replacement for HODEd.
- HWSE2 by Delphy and Pesmontis. Unfinished. [Download a beta version here. -Mikali]
- HODEd HWSE2 plugin by pipakin. Unfinished.
- hullgen by strangelet. A random hull-texture generator.
- TexRD A random seamless texture generator.
- Team Colors Chooser by EhraniNavy.
- HOD Fixer batch convert HODs from "Triangle Strip" format to "Triangle List" format. By lone wolf akela
Modeling Import/Export
- Blender Plugin: HWRM Toolkit by DKesserich (on github here)
- Blender Plugin: HWRM DAE Importer by Dom2 (note: this has now been forked into the Blender Toolkit above, so no need to download separately)
- Blender Plugin: HWRM shader for Blender by unifin
- 3DS Max Scripts by EchoRed (source)
Texturing
- GIMP Plugin: Export Layers as HODOR-ready tga textures by Xercodo
- GIMP Plugin: takes GLOW.dds / TEAM.dds and splits into layers by Xercodo
Animations
- MAD Editor by radar3301
- MADEd Animations file editor by 4E534B
Audio
- HW2 Music Tool by ZaTcH. For importing custom music/sounds into HW2. (hw2mt Musicconvertor, included in the HWU Tools)
- .AIFR Encoder Used for .AIFR and .FDA files
- Winamp .AIF Plugin
- Homesong Extracts Homeworld 1 music.[Dead link.]
- Penesound Extracts all HW and HW:C sound files.[Dead link.]
- AIF-R Manipulator by 4E534B. Allows you to manipulate AIF-R files.
Shaders
Animated Shader by CmdBob
Related Pages
- Tool Directory A directory to upload and share old tools.
- Tutorials See the section, labeled "Tool Related".
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Page Status
Updated Formatting? Yes
Updated for HWRM? Partially