Tools - KCreator/Earth-Defence-Force-Documentation GitHub Wiki

CPK Extraction Tools

  • CriPakTools: CPK extractor with a GUI.
  • YACPKTool: 'Yet Another CPK Tool', Non-GUI but reliable and may have success in repacking CPK files.

Mod Loader

  • BlueAmulet's Mod Loader: A mod loader for EDF4.1 & EDF5 that supports a variety of functions. {OG maker BlueAmulet has left for greener pastures, thank you for laying the ground work}

Weapon/Object Tools

  • SGOTT: A series of tools related to the SGO format. Includes examples of custom and rebalanced weapons for EDF 4.1 & 5
  • Big Racer's Weapon Builder: A W.I.P. UI-based weapon editor for EDF5. An updated and further maintained continuation of this tool can be found here.
  • Aelbannan's Direct SGO Editor: An SGO editor that incorporates SGOTT to skip the conversion process.

Texture, Model, & Animation Tools

  • Unnamed EDF Tool: A tool for extracting and recompiling RAB & MRAB files. Also can compile missions in a c-style format. An updated and further maintained continuation of this tool can be found here.
  • Blender MDB Plugin: A plugin for importing MDB models into Blender. W.I.P (Still incomplete but mostly done) Documentation {OG maker BlueAmulet has left for greener pastures, thank you for laying the ground work, tool now supported by Smileynator}
  • EDF Model Viewer: A W.I.P tool that can view Earth Defense Force models directly.
  • CAS / CANM Converter: For Animations, Extract CANM from the CAS file. And CANM can be injected back into the CAS.

Havok Physics

Mission Editing & Map Editing Tools

  • Unnamed EDF Tool: A tool for compiling and, to a lesser extent, decompiling BVM scripts using a c-style syntax. Best used for making BVMs from scratch. An updated and further maintained continuation of this tool can be found here.
  • Another EDF Tools: Series of EDF tools, can compile/decompile BVM scripts using assembly-style syntax, parse/build RMPA waypoint formats, or parse AWE voice name lists.
  • Stafern's Map Modification Tool: Able to edit the 'MAC' files, allowing for custom map edits.
  • EDF Model Viewer: A W.I.P tool that can view Earth Defense Force 'MAC' files visually, while also visually displaying information about the 'RMPA' waypoints.
  • EDF Mission Builder Tools: A room that you can shoot any enemy that you programed

Audio & Subtitles tools

  • AWB Unpacker/Repacker: A tool for Unpacking & Packing AWB audio packages
  • ACE: ACE (short for Audio Cue Editor) is a tool for editing and previewing CRIWARE ACB/AWB files. It was originally developed for DB Xenoverse 2 ACBs but support for both older and newer ACBs used in some other games has since been added. (Need to add support for EDF but can extract the files)
  • Eternity Audio Tool: A tool for replacing audio streams. Make sure it's the same audio channel for it to work. This can't do voice lines easily since they're sorted unusually.
  • Another EDF Tools: The awe_parser.py corrects the names for extracted voice files.
  • BroGamer4256's Subtitles: this adds a subtitle window on top of the game when in mission, can be use to translate any EDF game to any language (Supports EDF 5 atm)

The EVERYTHING MODDING PACKAGE (Every single EDF modding tool is in this package)