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[Sam.]

I decided to try and start an index of the tools/utilities that are buried in the SHS Forums.  Basically, anything that isn't already in the IE Modding Tools Forum or IE Modding Tools Download.  They don't even have to be modding tools per se.  Player tools, debugging tools, etc. (I've even included links to several larger databases of good information here at SHS) are all fair game too.
 

• acm2wav converter by ABel. -> Placed in the same directory as NearInfinity if you want to listen to or convert ACM files.
• BG:EE Run Once Mklink.bat by Cuv. -> This .bat file should create symbolic links to your Portraits, Save, Characters and Baldur.ini in your 00766 BG:EE install folder thus enabling the use of Shadowkeeper 2.1.4 or later.
• Comprehensive IE Modding Tutorial Index by SConrad. -> Database of IE Modding Tutorials.
• FAQ for the Megamods by Jarno Mikkola. -> Excellent source of information on a wide variety of subjects.  NOT JUST FOR MEGAMODDERS!
• Font BAM Generator by haen. -> A small Java utility for generating font BAMs. It can create BAM for any font (family, size, style etc.) - at least theoretically.
• FRM16 Viewer by Balder. -> This is a viewer/converter for the FRM format found in the game Lionheart.
• Hide NI DOS by Sam.. -> This program quietly runs NearInfinity with the specified VM Options.  It takes the place of and is an improvement to .BAT files used to increase memory allocations.
• LolFixer by Lollorian. -> The Lolfixer is supposed to do fixups and cleanups in your BGII-ToB game.  It clears most of the stuff reported by the G3Debugging suite and may actually prevent a few crashes and stuff if using the right components.
• LStest by Jarno Mikkola. -> The LStest mod is a basic WeiDU.exe debugging tool made to detect what scripts fire (without a good reason).
• Mass file change log tool by Sasha Al'Therin. -> It runs a Change-Log on the Override directory contents or on selected file(s).
• My Lil' Toolset by Cuv. -> Here is a group of modding resources that Cuv used for testing, tweaking and debugging of any modding material that he created.
• Stutter related tools by Sasha Al'Therin. -> Tools to address various issues causing stutter.  Includes abGVSCF, abGVSCFv2, and abSSGSC.
• The Modder Resource Center by berelinde. -> List of good resources for modders.

 
This list is by no means exhaustive.  These are just some of the ones that I remembered where they were.  If you know of others, please post them here and I'll add them to this post.

Edited by Sam., 24 January 2013 - 05:35 AM.

[Azazello]

Thanks for this. Always a good thing to have an index.

 

Mass file change log tool by Sasha :: hadn't heard this before, it'll be very useful, maybe even for n00bs.

 

Hide NI DOS by Sam :: Sweet. A better way to run NI, it's my new launcher.

 

 

Here's a suggestion (I haven't used it, so can't comment on it):

Infinity Engine Talk Table Editor by Baronius

 

 

And a request: your index is sure gonna grow, so can separate each "record" by a blankline, or maybe better, use a bullet format.