External tools

This page lists useful online tools, not maintained by Gamepedia, which may be useful during the creation, design, and maintenance of a wiki.

Colors

• Adobe Color CC: Color wheel.
• Paletton: Color scheme designer.
• Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator: Create gradients and generate the needed CSS.

Browser add-ons:

• ColorZilla: Pick colors from any web page and instantly copy hex/RGB color codes for them.

CSS tools

• Clip-path generator: Works not for FireFox and Explorer
• Cssplant: has a border-radius-generator and clip-path generator
• About responsive grid system
• calculator - converter has a PX to EM converter and EM to PX converter
• Css animation generator
• Reference

Browser add-ons:

• Stylus (Chrome/Opera) / Stylus (Firefox): Allows live CSS design with instant live previews, without resetting if you navigate or refresh the page.

Image borders:

• snapbuilder.com
• border-image.com

Files

File manipulation

• Bulk Rename Utility: Renames files in bulk and is highly configurable.
• SageThumbs: Adds thumbnails for a ton of image formats in Windows Explorer. Greatly improves efficiency.

Game file extraction

• Unity Studio: Extracts Unity game files. Works with the latest Unity version.
• Unity Assets Explorer 1.3: Extracts Unity game files. Converts .tex files to .dds. Does not work with Unity 4 yet.
• Unity extraction options: A list of Unity tools available and what they do.
• QuickBMS: File extraction tool. Various scripts to support various engines/games.
• CRYENGINE SDK: Cryengine tools.
• UE Viewer: Unreal Engine extraction tools. Works with UE4, just explicitly specify the engine version in the settings screen.
• 7-Zip: Not sure if absolutely reliable, but it unpacked the cryengine .pak files from Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Fonts

• WhatTheFont: Upload a sample of the font and it identifies the font.
• Identifont: Answer a series of questions about the font and it identifies the font.
• Font Squirrel: Lots of free fonts. 100% free for commercial use - but please ALWAYS read the FAQ and licenses.
• Dafont: Font repository.
• Cool Text: Graphics generator. Set style, font, and other options.

Images

Image Viewer

• Irfan View: Can convert, batch process, play movies and much more. Can't cope with alpha channels when batch converting.
• Xnview: Handles alpha channels.

Image manipulation

• Shoebox: Extract images from spritesheets, among other features.
• Sprite Vortex: Another sprite sheet manager.
• Alferd Spritesheet Unpacker: Spritesheet extraction.
• Tile Mage: Can split Spritesheets.
• XnViewMP: Image format batch conversion.
• Gimp: The one and only Gimp! Has many plug-ins.

Plugin to export layers of a project

• Krita: Useful for digital paintings, has many brushes and page templates, even offers CMYK for print projects.
• paint.net: Raster graphics editor.
• Waifu2x: Double the size/resolution of illustrated images.

Favicon generators

• ConvertICO
• Real Favicon Generator: A beefier favicon generator with more variations.
• Favicon Generator
• ICO Convert

Clipping

• Clippy: Not supported in Firefox

Compression

• TinyPNG: Compress PNG files as much as possible without sacrificing quality (lossless).
• Compress JPG
• Compress PNG

Convert

• JPG to PNG
• PNG to JPG

Testing

• Mobile Phone Emulator: Test out pages on various phone setups.
• Google Chrome for developers: Additional Developers Tools
• Firefox Developer Edition: Additional Developers Tools

Wiki automation

• AutoWikiBrowser Automate/bot wiki tasks. The manual can be found here. Be sure to get a 6.0 version or higher else the software will not work on Gamepedia wikis.
• Pywikibot: Uses python scripts to automate tasks.
• User:Pcj/CleanupInterwikis.js: clean up inactive interwiki links
• mwclient: Easy-to-use Python library for calling wiki API actions (read, save, etc)
• mwparserfromhell: Python library for manipulating wiki text, making it easy to add, remove, or edit template parameters, section names, etc.

Videos

• Getting Youtube subtitles