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Tools and Utils
You can still use old Oxygen 2 and WrpTool to edit content. Kegetys released paa plugin for Adobe Photoshop so textures can be edited and saved.
Dont forget the editing_tools list.
Official Tools
So far in end of July 2007 BIS has only released TexView2 tool for ArmA. TexView2 is util to open and save texture images. It will include Pal2PacE util to convert textures.
Oxygen 2 Personal Edition download here
Visitor 3 Personal Edition download here
BinPBO is a tool for binarizing and packing addons, that also includes BinMake, FileBank and DSSignFile.
BinMake is a tools to be used in data packing process to dispatch conversion of various file types to corresponding conversion tools. Currently its most common usage is from Binarize or Buldozer, it is used to control coversion of texture and material files by Pal2PacE or CfgConvert.
CfgConvert is a command line tool for converting configs between text and binary representation.
Binarize is a model/world optimizing tool. The purpose of the tool is to convert the file into the representation suitable for fast loading by the game engine. Some information important for editing, but not relevant for the game, may be discarded during the process, therefore the process in not always reversible (which is one of the reasons why BI does not provide a tools which would reverse the binarization). Notes: The term 'binarizing' is sometimes used to describe converting a file into an optimized / binary format, like when converting Config.cpp into Config.bin. This is in fact not done using Binarize, rather by another tool called CfgConvert.
DSSignFile is a tool for signing ArmA content.
Community Tools
