Utilities
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The various File formats in EU3 require different tools to edit.
Save Converters
Save Analyzers
Inferis' Simple Map Viewer
- It allows you to view the map files (the .bmp files) in the map folder in a unified UI. This makes it simpler to browse your maps. Unchanged since 2008, only for vanilla (
) and NA (
) More about this tool
.dds utilities
- Nvidia texture tools
- DDS Utilities
- 3ds max .dds plugin
- Adobe Photoshop .dds plugins
- DDS Utilities
- GIMP DDS plugin
Direct3D .x utilities
Text Editing
Windows comes with Notepad and Wordpad. These are fine for changing a few things in EU3 text files. But if you are doing a lot of editing, you should look at some more advanced tools. They'll let you do complex search and replace (including across the ends of lines, plus including tab characters and searching for complex varieties of strings), and many other things that the standard Windows text editors never dreamt of:
- UltraEdit by IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.
- Crimson Editor a full-featured open source professional text editor.
- Emacs - The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Download (look for the "bin" or "fullbin"-files) - FAQ for Windows version
- DNOTE - Duncans Notepad - (Shareware) Allows editing of multiple text files simultaneously. Like the province files or the country and adviser files
- Scintilla and Scite - another multiple text file editor with syntax formating, and bracket checking.
- Notepad++ - a perennial favorite
- gVim - this is one of the most complicated editors, but with complexity comes power!
- TextPad - Another text editor that's way better than NotePad
Keyboard Macros
Essential to nullifying some of the keystroke sequences you probably hit in EU or other programs. Stop leaning across the keyboard to hit the Pause key! Turn any keyboard, mouse, or joystick button into anything you want, for any program.
