Tools

[EnderWiggin]

There are tons of DAT/unDAT programs, tons of FRM tools, tons of script compilers, two mappers, etc.

Which tools do you prefer to use when modding Fallout?

 

[Berth]

undater : fade
frm : frmcon2.0
script editor : fse
proto editor : fic, fuck and an hexa editor
script compiler : watcom 9.5
mapper : bis mapper.

and of course notepad for msg, gam, lst...files

 

[Perceptron]

undater : Dat Explorer by Dims
frm,rix,mve : Jab viewer (as viewer - I don't change frm files, but it also can convert pictures)
decompiler/compiler: by Noid
mapper : both.

 

[EnderWiggin]

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

[Wild_qwerty]

DAT Files
DatMan Lite
Dat Explorer (I have just started using this one)

FRM Files
Frame Animator - Critters, Heads, Scenery and Inventory items

Spr2Frm - Uses Spr2Gif, Gif2Frm and FrmCat

Mapping
Official Fallout2 Mapper (I dont do much mapping though)

 

[jargo]

Dat/Undat

Datman Lite (only one that can crate 100% good dat files)
DatExplorer (sometimes, nice GUI )

Scripts

official compiler + OpenWatcom + FSE
Noid decompiler for decompilation(I use FSE to convert decompiled files to official compiler syntax)

Mapping

Official Fallout2 Mapper
Dims Mapper2 (not much now)

 

[Wild_qwerty]

Dat/Undat

Datman Lite (only one that can crate 100% good dat files)
DatExplorer (sometimes, nice GUI )

Do DATExplorer Dats not work correctly?

 

[jargo]

Well unpacking work's fine, but when creating new dat then files are corrupt (in abut 50%) and will not work with fallout.
When using datman lite never seen such problem.
I thin this is problem with file sorting when writing file list(Fallout search for files in alphabetical order and he can't find some files)

 

[red]

Indeed. With Dat Explorer You'll need to rebuild the DAT file from scratch (except in very specific cases) as to make sure the file sorting is correct (see the "How Fallout Find Files" thread to see my theory as to why this happens - although I have another one now given something I found in the fallout2.cfg).

 

[Wild_qwerty]

But Dat man only lets you add one file at a time.... argh!!! Unless of course you can get DATMan lite to add lots of files at the same time, or add them to an existing DAT file

 

[Perceptron]

Well unpacking work's fine, but when creating new dat then files are corrupt (in abut 50%)

You can use DatRepairer (download using ReGet or such) by KIA (from teamx.ru) for fix this problem. It reconstructs DAT files created by DatExlorer and makes them runnable.

 

[Wild_qwerty]

Thanks buddy I didnt know that

 

[Odin]

Just uploaded it to NMA: http://www.3ddownloads.com/nma-fallout/modding/utils/dat_undat/