Useful Modding-related Programs

[makanyane]

Ah, hadn't thought about web stuff before but as lots of mods do have own sites... my favourites:

BlazeFtp free FTP client, found it easy to use, and as above I'd tried 30day trial of different paid for product and didn't find anything lacking in this afterwards, it's independent of browser type used

EZpad free, very simple (and basic) html editor and viewer

[Maced0n]

I take this list from MSFN forums


Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spyware

Ad-Aware - http://lavasoft.element5.com/index.php
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - http://www.free-av.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Comodo Antivirus - http://antivirus.comodo.com/
HijackThis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/p...php#hijackthis
Spybot-S&D - http://www.spybot.info/en/home/index.html
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/
XPY - http://xpy.whyeye.org/


Audio Players

1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer - http://www.deliplayer.com/
Delphamp - http://www.delphamp.com/
Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.com/
MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
Quintessential Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
SongBird - http://www.songbirdnest.com/download
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/


Audio Tools

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AutoFLAC - http://legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&...mp;app=autoflac
BonkEnc - http://www.bonkenc.org/index.php
CDEx - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
Mp3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/


Benchmarking / Hardware Info

CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
PC WIZARD 2007 - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
Futuremark - http://www.futuremark.com/products/
HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/
Nero CD-DVD Speed - http://www.cdspeed2000.com/
Nero InfoTool - http://www.nero.com/nero7/deu/Info_Tool.html
RightMark Utilities - http://www.rightmark.org/
SIW - System Information for Windows - http://www.gtopala.com/


Bittorent Clients

µTorrent - http://utorrent.com/index.php
Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php
BitComet - http://www.bitcomet.com/
BitSpirit - http://www.167bt.com/intl/
BitTorrent - http://www.bittorrent.com/
Deluge - http://www.deluge-torrent.org/
Halite - http://www.binarynotions.com/halite.php
Rufus - http://rufus.sourceforge.net/


CD & DVD Burning

CDBurnerXP Pro - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
DeepBurner - http://www.deepburner.com/
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
Infra Recorder - http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
Small CD-Writer - unofficial translation - http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=7564


Compression/Decompression

7-zip - www.7-zip.org
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
Far Manager - http://farmanager.com/
WinUHA - http://winuha.com
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Universal Extractor - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=62418


Data Recovery

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
Recuva - http://www.recuva.com/
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
TestDisk and PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/
Undelete Plus - http://www.undelete-plus.com/


Download Manager

DownThemAll - Firefox extension - http://www.downthemall.net/
FlashGet - http://flashget.com/
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
LeechGet Personal Edition - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Orbit Downloader - http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
Wackget - http://millweed.com/
Wget - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
wGetGUI - http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/
WinWGet - http://www.cybershade.us/winwget/



Encryption

FreeOTFE - http://www.freeotfe.org/
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
Steganos LockNote - http://www.steganos.com/?content=locknote&language=en
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/


File Tools

A43 File Management Utility - http://www.primitus.us/a43/
Ant Renamer - http://www.antp.be/software/renamer
Directory Lister - http://www.krksoft.com/index.html
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/
LS File List Generator - http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/
ReNamer - http://www.den4b.com/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/


Firewall

Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.comodogroup.com/
Outpost Firewall Free - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/index.php
Safety.Net - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/


FTP

Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/


Graphics

ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/
AveIconifier2 - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=15304
Blender - http://www.blender.org/
Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
hugin - Panorama Tools GUI - http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
InkScape - http://www.inkscape.org/
IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/
Jahshaka - http://www.jahshaka.org/
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org/
Paint.NET - http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/
Google SketchUp - http://www.sketchup.com/
TuxPaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org/
XnView - http://www.xnview.com/


GUI

Adolix Wallpaper Changer - http://www.adolix.com/wallpaper-changer/
AveDesk - http://www.avedesk.org/
CD Art Display - http://www.closetosoftware.com/
Desktop List View - http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/index.php
Dexpot - http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home
DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/
Flickr Wallpaper Rotator - http://www.rushfrisby.com/apps/Flick...r-Rotator.aspx
FlyakiteOSX - http://osx.portraitofakite.com/
John's Background Switcher - http://www.johnsadventures.com/backe...roundSwitcher/
PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
RK Launcher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/
RocketDock - http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock
Tango Shell Patcher - http://vertigosity.benpbrown.com/?page=start
TaskSwitchXP - http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html
XPize - http://xpero.msfn.org/
VirtuaWin - http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
Vista Transformation Pack - http://www.windowsxlive.net/?page_id=15


Instant Messaging

aMSN - MSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - Multi-Protocol support - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
miniaim - AIM - http://miniaim.net/
Miranda - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Trillian - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/


IRC Client

Bersirc - http://bersirc.free2code.net/index.php/home/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
KVIRC - http://www.kvirc.net/
X-Chat - http://www.xchat.org/
X-Chat 2 - http://www.silverex.org/news/


Network Tools

Ethereal - Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Knocker - Port Scanner - http://knocker.sourceforge.net/index.php
Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
OCS Inventory - Inventory - http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/
OmniPeek Personal - http://www.omnipeek.com/omnipeek_personal.php
Show Traffic - Traffic Analyzer - [b]http://www.demosten.com/index.html
SmartSniff - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/smsniff.html
Snort - IDS - http://snort.org/
SoftPerfect Network Scanner - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/
The Dude - http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
Wireshark -http://www.wireshark.org/


Notepad Replacements

metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html


Office

AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/
Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Gnumeric - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/index.php
OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
PDFCreator - http://www.pdfforge.org/


RSS

FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/index.html
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/


System Utilities


Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php
CamStudio - http://www.camstudio.org/
CCleaner - http://ccleaner.com/
Convert - http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/
Event Log Explorer - http://www.eventlogxp.com/
HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/
JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
Neoshooter - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=161346
NirSoft Utilities - http://www.nirsoft.net/
Rumshot - http://shellscape.org/rumshot/
Sandboxie - http://www.sandboxie.com/
Sizer - http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html
Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...itiesindex.mspx
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/
Window Clippings - http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/t...gs/default.aspx


Web Browsers

Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Opera - http://www.opera.com/


VoIP

Gizmo - http://www.gizmoproject.com/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
VoipStunt - http://www.voipstunt.com/
WengoPhone - http://www.wengo.com/


Video Players

GOM Player - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/
MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/
KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php
rulesPlayer - http://rulesplayer.lessequal.com/
VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Zoom Player (Standard) - http://www.inmatrix.com/


Video Tools

Any Video Converter - http://www.any-dvd-converter.com/
AutoGK - http://www.autogk.me.uk/
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
Dr.DivX - http://labs.divx.com/DrDivX
DVD43 - http://www.dvd43.com/
DVDFab Decrypter - http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm
DVD-Rebuilder - http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/
GSpot Codec Information Appliance - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
MediaCoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
MKVToolnix - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
RatDVD- http://www.ratdvd.dk/download.htm
StaxRip - http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
Videora Converter - http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

[Amroth]

The first post has been updated with the suggestions that have come in so far (and I have put them in a format I think should be easy to navigate - thanks to Spiff for his link which helped with that).

Large lists of free software is not really what I am looking for, but they are good for checking to see if there is something that might have been missed. The programs that we list should - IMO - be 'tried and tested' programs that modders have worked with for some time and found useful.

Please keep the suggestions coming!

[makanyane]

As we've got other paid for 2d program in:
PaintShopPro- http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satelli.../1155872554948
(I'm assuming that's just new version of older product - though they added 'photo' to name)
PhotoShop Elements- http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/
both above are about 1/4 price of full Photoshop

3d: Gmax is actually still downloadable and free:
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
won't export to RTW but I think files can be converted from that if someone else has 3dmax. Not sure if it is similar enough to be used as training tool or not.

Oh, and EZpad is only an editor for HTML not text documents.

[Amroth]

Thanks, Mak. All those have been added, and I moved EZpad down to Miscellaneous.

[Amroth]

Added some archivers/compressors to the list in the first post (WinRAR, WinZip, 7-Zip, IZArc).

[Arakorn]

Umm, MS Office for office suites maybe?

[jml322]

Amroth,

Hey there...I wanted to add that there is a text file compare program that I use as a coder as a profession that is very helpful. It is also free. It is called Beyond Compare. Here is the link. Please add if you think it is helpful to TWC members as I believe it is.
http://download.cnet.com/Beyond-Comp...-10015731.html

Let me know either way..

JML322

[Kong Ming]

thnx

[Jttbag69]

I need some help please. I really want to use the swordsmen milita mod but I cannot seem to get it to work partly because i cannot find my export_descr_unit file or my export_descr_buildings file.

I know where they should be there just not there.

They seemed to have vanashed right after the time I installed Third Age Total War and got sick of it.

I saw the swordsmenmilitia mod read how to upload it and put all the files into the data part but they werent there.

I have kingdoms gold.

I tried uninstalling medieval all together and reinstalling it and still the export_descr_unit and buildings were not in my data folder.

I tried just using the files from the modded folder and it still wouldnt work.

This is the weird part... I tried deleting every single export_descr_unit and export_descr_building out of all the files i had and the game still ran.

I know it has something to do with third age because now all my units have 150 or 120 units instead of the normal 75 or 60.

Someone please help I am stuck and have no idea how to fix this and i would really appreaciate any advice.

[Kirila the Kitten]

Hey Gmax works with CAS. files?