Development:Scripts & Tools

These handy scripts and tools are here to make your life easier.

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.