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Revision as of 15:22, 1 January 2020
This page lists useful third-party 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: does not work in Internet 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:
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: Some games may use common archive formats to package game art and data; for example; CRYENGINE .pak files from Kingdom Come: Deliverance could be unpacked with this tool.
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.
String operations
- What Unicode character is this?: lists all Unicode code points in a provided string, can be useful when detecting rogue characters (zero-width spaces, unusual combining characters) or checking for lookalike characters from different alphabets (e. g. Cyrillic or Greek). Note that you need to click the "Identify" button, pressing Enter in the input field just reloads the page.
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.
- 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
Compression
- TinyPNG: Compress PNG files as much as possible without sacrificing quality (lossless).
- Compress JPG
- Compress PNG
Convert
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.