📦 General Modding Assets

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Graphical Assets

🔨 General Modding Tools

Tools, scripts, addons, and other resources to help you to build your mods and assets for your mods:

Shader tools

• Shader Compiler

Bash/command line tools and scripts

• FS Build

Graphics tools

• TBD

In-game tools & mods

• PowerTools: A quick and easy to use tool to assist with development and testing of mods, the main benefit is the easy access to all commands via a single hotkey and no need for mouse navigation
  • r console command performs a soft/quick restart of the current save game
  • rr console command performs a hard/full restart of the current save game
  • Restart Game in PowerTools ("F12") menu performs the same command as r in the console
  • Fill vehicle fills the current vehicle with any filltype
  • Spawn pallet/log/bale spawns pallets for all filltypes, all bales and the most common logs
• PowerTools Developer: Adds console commands to print table contents to log file or save a Lua table to file
  • dtSaveTable saves a table to a file in a well formed Lua file, which means you can actually load it in the Lua interpreter and use it as any regular table, perfect for creating dummies/mockups using existing content
  • dtTable prints the table contents to the log file, uses a different algorithm than DebugUtil.printTableRecursively which performs better and supports larger tables
• GlobalExplorer: Allows you to browse in-game tables to inspect the FS object model
  • Works best with for quick lookup, smaller tables and/or when you don't really know exactly what you are looking for (exploring the structure)
  • PowerTools Developer is a good complement to save a table to file or print it to the log once found with GlobalExplorer
• EasyDevControls: The classic EDC with tons of useful features for modders with a easy to use UI
  • A QoL wrapper for tons of built-in console commands
  • New developer/tester friendly functions not available as console commands
  • A lot more extensive than PowerTools (with the tradeoff of being less streamlined)
• LumberJack: The unspoken hero of super strength mode
  • Even though both PowerTools and EDC lets you to activate super strength, LumberJack is less obtrusive and waiting in the backround always ready with just a keystroke. Also, the fine tuned wood cutting makes testing easier.

Misc. tools and resources

• Color converter - Convert between Giants (sRGB), HEX and RGB color codes
• FS22 Asset browser - Browse base game assets like wheels, tires, lights and much more