Tools You Might Need

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Script Editing

• Notepad++: A simple but good enough Text editor
• Sublime Text: A more advanced text editor, very useful for coding, has paid and free option
• WinMerge: Tool for comparing and merging files
• Everything: A simple but pretty good search engine that gets the job done
• Agent Ransack: an advanced search engine for power users

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Textures

• Paint.net: Tool with DDS export functionality
• Renderdoc: Graphics debugger
• Miru's 010 Editor Scripts: For .rpack injection

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Mesh Modding

• Daemon's RP6L Unpacker: For .RPACK archives (textures and meshes)
• XNALara Blender Plugin:
  • Compatible with Blender 4.0 for .ASCII meshes
  • Compatible with Blender 3.6 and earlier versions for .ASCII meshes
• Dying Light 1 Developer Tools: For .FBX conversion to .MSH and in general useful since some of things done in dl1 dev tools can be brought to DL2

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Texts and Localization Editing Tools

• Steffens Binsloc Tool
• SDavidLee's Binsloc Tool

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Audio Modding

• Aluigi's QuickBMS: For unpacking/packing .CSB and .AESP archives (requires a script)
• VGMUI: For playing and converting .FSB (DL1) and .WEM (DL2) files
• VGMStream: For playing and converting .FSB (DL1) and .WEM (DL2) files