Latest SE4 modding programs?

[Urendi Maleldil]

I know Wenin just released his data checker, but most of the SE4 modding tools are well over a year old. I was wondering if you guys know what the latest modding tools are.


Here's what I know of:

Tools
DavidG's SE4 Modder v1.76 (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-file-12.html)
Matryx's Mod Launcher (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1036443856.zip)
Gimboid's Component Modder v0.9 (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1025603735.zip)
Lemmy's SE4 Loader (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1023137313.zip)
geoschmo's AI_General.txt generator (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1022268288.zip)
Master Belisarius's SE4BATCH (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1016581587.ZIP) | v1.1 update (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1017336891.ZIP)(wish there was a new version)
Krsqk's Component Creator v0.9 (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1014170046.exe)
Drax's SE4 Modder v0.3 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrewballantine/SE4/SE4ModderV0.3.zip)
SJ's Damage Simulator (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-file-415.html)
SJ's WeaponStats (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-file-417.html)
SJ's Tech Gridder (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-file-376.html)

Reference
Deccan's SEIV Excel Weapon Report (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1059821217.zip)
Atraikus's Generic AI Excel Spreadsheet (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1042806417.zip)
Tesco's SE4 Excel Spreadsheet (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1028566219.zip)
Alpha Kodiak's Crystalline (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1022352016.zip), Religious (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1022352100.zip), and Organic (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1022352179.zip) AI templates
SE.net's SEIV Modding 101 (http://se4modding.spaceempires.net/)

[Ed Kolis]

The Templatizer is basically an alternate take on the Tech Gridder; it embeds the level-up formulas into "template files" which follow the same basic format as SE4 data files but have embedded Python code.
Download the tool here: http://kolis.dyndns.org/ed/prog/templatizer-py/templatizer-py.zip
One of the first mods to use the Templatizer is the Low Tech Mod, which includes the template files so you can see how it works: http://kolis.dyndns.org/ed/se/se4/mods/lowtech/Low%20Tech%20Mod.zip

[Fyron]

Not really a modding tool per se, but quite useful for documentation and web sites is CHTML (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-details-394-CHTML.html#dldetails). Definitely along the lines of WeaponStats. If I ever get these class inheritence issues worked out, it will cover all the files, rather than just a couple as it does now.

[Suicide Junkie]

Don't forget the important MapStats prog:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Tools/zip/SE4mapstats.zip
A mod with unbalanced map generation is hardly a mod at all http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

There's also the quick Components repair tool, to fix those double blank lines.
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Tools/zip/SE4ComponentsRepairTool.zip

And, if you're implementing QNP, you'll want the AI patcher to help tweak the AIs
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Tools/zip/AIPatcher2b.zip

[Fyron]

I've gotten them sorted out, and it is now really easy to add new types. Here is one sample of output (compact pages divided by General Group):

http://www.spaceempires.net/files/temp/chtml/

All the colors are defined by a css file, so can be easily modified by end user.

[bearclaw]

And there's Ruatha's SE4 History Editor/Companion. Gotta love that handy thing.
History Editor (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/downloads-search-.html#searchresults)
This is on SE.net, but I'm not sure if it's the latest version.

[dogscoff]

I have done a quick and dirty wikification of this very useful thread:

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Mods_%28SEIV%29#Modding_Tools

Please feel free to update it as you post here (because I probably won't do it) and to be honest each of the tools listed here should probably have its own wiki entry.

EDIT: Just to labour the point I've made a wiki page for Matryx's mod launcher. It's not very pretty though, someone cleverererer than me might want to tidy it up: http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Mod_Launcher