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Arclight Tools

Tools subproject of something referred to as Arclight

This is beta software, please, keep backups.

Platforms

  • Linux: The latest LTS of Ubuntu, roughly
  • macOS: macOS Monterey and above. Need to set up code signing.
  • Windows: Windows 10 and above, Visual Studio 2019 seems to be the latest Qt supported version

The Tools

Even though the utlimate goal of this project is something tooset-ish. There will be some tools added that are usefully independently of a toolset context. They

erfherder

status: beta

erfherder is an editor for BioWare's ERF File Format. It's features include:

  • Everything in nwhak.exe
  • Drag and Drop support.
  • Very simple, but effective Fuzzy Search filtering.

erfherder

texview

status: beta

A super mid and basic texture gallery viewer for Bioware DDS, Standard DDS, TGA, and PLT texures. It can open Key, Erf, and Zip containers. Screenshot is using NWN:EE main key file circa 36-2.

texview

dlg

status: alpha

An editor for DLG conversation files and rollnw DLG json files. A project of this level of complexity requires a fair bit of polish.. It has most toolset features, the main missing things is:

  • Since it exists outside of a module.. completion on module scripts and journal integration.
  • Inserting action strings (and corresponding highlights)
  • Loading a TLK file and handling dialog nodes with string references.

dlg


The Renderer

Currently the built in renderer only supports the most basic models. It uses OpenGL 3.3 just as NWN:EE does. Ultimately, the goal is to replace this with a more advanced graphics API like DiligentEngine

Features:

  • Basic Meshses
  • Skin Meshes
  • Un-lerped Animations
  • Very basic area viewing

The Widgets

Area View

A view for NWN areas. Extremely basic, but a start.

Camera Controls:

  • WASD for movement.
  • Up and Down arrow for height.
  • Ctrl Up and Ctrl Down for pitch.
  • Right and Left arrow for yaw.

area

Container View

A view of NWN containers. See erfheder above.

Creature View - Properties

The place to edit most things about a creature. NOTE: Not yet complete.

props

Creature View - Stats

To those familiar, this is essentially a copy of axs' modified toolset layout. Expanded class selection to 8 classes as NWN:EE allows.

stats

Creature View - Feats

Feat selection with handy fuzzy searching.

feats

Creature View - Inventory

inventory

Creature View - Appearance

appearance

Dialog View

A tree view for NWN dialogs. See dlg above.

Door View

A widget for doors

door

Placeable View

A widget for placeables

placeable

Variable Table View

A widget for editing variable tables. Error indicators on duplicates, warning indicator on string variables with values convertible to int or float.

vartable

The Views

These are widgets that present different aspects of a module. There is still a lot of work and investigation to be done here.

treeviews

The Project View

The project view is a filesystem view of the module. This could be a flat single directory like the NWN Toolsets "temp.0" folder. Or it can be arbitrary, an error indicator is shown if a file is shadowed by another, since in the end there is only the flat namespace of ERF files. This view might not be better than palette views or maybe in addition to them at some point.

The Area List View

This is the list of areas, similar to the NWN Toolset. I don't see Dialogs as being particularly special, and scripts have far far better external editors today than could ever be built internally, there's no reason for a special scripts tree node.

The Explorer View

This will be a view of the modules external dependencies presented very much as NWN explorer does. Currently it only shows the modules HAK files.

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