Development:Scripts & Tools

These handy scripts and tools are here to make your life easier. Please note that the official standard for support tools is

Internal tools

Tools developed for Vega Strike

Mesher utility: Converts from/to Wavefront .obj+.mtl, xmesh(es), and BFXM file formats.
ucsv.py: (Python) Conversion script for turning .xunit files into rows in units.csv format
3ds2xml: (Perl) script for converting .3ds files into .xmesh format. Doesn't appear to do axis translation properly, known to be somewhat flaky.
[WIP] obj2obj converter (Perl, commandline) - Converts obj files to cockpit files. or extracts tag-data from the models. (At least that's what is planned, Testing under Win32/Linux. Pontiac)
Configuration Parser (file: objconv/configparser.py in vegastrike CVS, Python) - Goes through the source tree and produces a config file (pygrep.config at present) containing every variable *used* in game, every possible command to bind to keys, and every colour definition that can be specified. Still under development.
[WIP] OBJ to Vega Strike cockpit converter (obj2vs_cockpit_obj, Perl)

Plugins and scripts for external programs

DDS plugin for the GIMP
Irfanview (freeware for Windows) supports the DDS image file format.
KDE's image libraries (version >= 3.3.0) support reading the DDS file format, so e.g. gwenview, kview and konqueror can view texture files.
See Development:Orbital_Planet_Surfaces for info on NVidia's DDS compressor software.