Topic: Simutrans Tools

[IgorEliezer]

Simutrans Tools

Here you will find a lot of useful tools that can help you to create add-ons, install and customize Simutrans.

Links

Below sites where you find our tools with much more info.

  Simutrans Tools site

  VS's tool site

External sites and tool-specific sites or forum topics, see below.


Tool list

MakeObj
A tool to compile new objects (vehicles, buildings, industries, goods, etc) to be used in Simutrans.

PakHelper
Graphical interface for MakeObj.

PakBuilder
Graphical interface for MakeObj.

PakTool for OS X
Allows a graphical way of producing the pak extensions for simutrans by providing a drag & drop interface to makeobj.

Shades
Tool for editing special colors in pictures for Simutans

TileCutter
Graphical tool that helps in making (mainly) building objects to be used in Simutrans.

SimuSetup
This tool will comfortably install almost any Simutrans version on your computer.

SimuStarter
SimuStarter offers an interface to start SimuTrans with options in an easy and user friendly way.

Vehicle Alignment Tool for Simutrans (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vats)
This tool allows artists or pak mantainers to better align their vehicles by showing a preview of a convoy for each of the eight Simutrans views.

Simutrans Massive DAT Editor (http://sourceforge.net/projects/st-mass-dat)
Massive DAT file editor for Simutrans sources.

Simutrans Tools for GIMP (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=9500.0)
A tool to deal with special colors directly within XCF files.

Simutrans Render Post-Processor (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=4552.0)
Allows blender artitst to create Simutrans ready images with only a few clicks.

[puzzler995]

I found SimuStarter on the website and I like it since I couldn't figure out the command line to start it in beginner mode!

[markus]

Because it was outdated I have removed the SimuStarter download from simutrans-tips.com

[Foxglove]

First link download links arent working for me. Can you upload simuconfig somewhere, and also probably you can tell me, how to clone some vehicle (like Ikarus-280) then how to edit new one, for example, to paint it in yellow? Which tool should help I mean.

[vilvoh]

First link download links arent working for me. Can you upload simuconfig somewhere

Simuconfig seems to be lost but you can try Simustarter which I guess makes more or less the same function (config and run Simutrans)

..and also probably you can tell me, how to clone some vehicle (like Ikarus-280) then how to edit new one, for example, to paint it in yellow? Which tool should help I mean.

I'm afraid that's not possible. The pak file format is a closed container, so you can't access to the sources unless the author has released them.

[prissi]

Some of those tools listened in the toolsite are quite old. Furthermore resizeobj is missing, a verse versatile tool ... http://www.geocities.jp/wa_simutrans/resizeobj.html

(Actually, who takes care of the toolsite? And should this site not be somehow linked with the simutrans.com main site (maybe on the development page?)

[greenling]

Prissi
do you know how Resizeobj.exe work.The Manual hate in not understand.
It´s Possible to declare it.

[jamespetts]

Should this tool by Zeno not also be added to the list?

[IgorEliezer]

Any news about new tools or sites with tools dedicated for Simutrans? Please, let us know.

Also, I updated the 1st post.

(EDIT: I'm missing a tool site that were more powerful and updated than http://hd.simutrans.com/tools/.)

[prissi]

Resizeobj link is wrong:
http://www.geocities.jp/wa_simutrans/resizeobj.html

[IgorEliezer]

1st post updated. Welcome Simutrans Render Post-Processor.

Any other tool worth noting? Let us know.

[Frank]

...
(EDIT: I'm missing a tool site that were more powerful and updated than http://hd.simutrans.com/tools/.)

then see here link directory Simutrans

and here link directory Simutrans - Tools

Links can be suggested. And each registered can obtain the rights to be able to manage the links.

overall there are 50 listed Links, but some of them are no longer accessible ( among other things, most xxx.simutrans.com )