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Name Author(s) Size Description
WDFUSE v2.10 (Win95) Yves Borckmans
Alexei Novikov
David Lovejoy
Jereth Kok
1.5 MB The latest full version of the most popular Dark Forces level editor for Win95.
Be sure to download the WDFUSE Common Files too.
(Win3.1 version available from http://www.codealliance.ca)
WDFUSE Common Files (as above) 862 KB The essential tutorial and help files for WDFUSE, which introduce and explain most of the key principles of DF editing. Includes the full Dark Forces file format specs Df_specs.hlp, as a Windows help file.
WDFUSE v2.50 Beta 2 (Win95) (as above) 554 KB Requires that the full version be installed first. This is not an essential upgrade, but it does fix a couple of things.
(Win3.1 version available from http://www.codealliance.ca)
DF Gold (Mac) Brad Oliver
Various
1.4 MB Reportedly everything you need to edit DF with a Mac, including the Dark Forge editor.
WEDIT 3.20 Ole Thomasen 607 KB The latest in Ole Thomasen's popular Dark Forces level editor for Win95 and up.
(More information can be found at http://www.magicforce.com)
BMPDF Alexei Novikov 74 KB An extremely useful package of DOS utilities that allows you to convert Dark Forces FME, BM, DELT, ANIM and WAX files to/from Windows BMP or PCX files.
GMIDI 0.5 Beta Allan Turp 168 KB A DOS program that converts Dark Forces .GMD files to and from standard MIDI files.
ConMan v0.9 Alexei Novikov 159 KB A utility to browse and edit container files used by various 3D games (including DF).
VueCAD v3.0 Frank A. Krueger 198 KB A utility to create .VUE files.
Scale3DO Peter Klassen 10 KB A small DOS program that can reduce or enlarge the size of .3DO files.
PACMUT v1.0b Jereth Kok 124 KB A program which lets you edit .PAL and .CMP files.
DFONT v1.0 Peter Klassen 19 KB A small program to convert .FNT files to .PCX.
Cargo95 Tools Carlos Gomez 280 KB Contains FMECAD, an FME editing utility, and some other possibly interesting stuff.
Cyra Carlos Gomez 91 KB Advanced editor for various properties of WAX files. Allows extraction of frames for modification in FMECAD.
Dark Forces Texture Positioning Calculator v1.0.4 Kevin Buscemi 12 KB Handy calculator to help you get those pesky offsets right. v1.0.4 adds floor & ceiling alignment.
Requires Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Libraries.
GobInfo Version 1.0 Allan Turp 52 KB This program collects some interesting information about the level(s) in a .GOB file. Get advance knowledge of the enemies, generators and powerups you are about to encounter...
CMPED 1.0.1 Murgo 72 KB A DOS-based CMP/PAL/BM editor.
Dark Frontend The Mega-ZZTer 101 KB A DOS-based add-on level manager.
Voc2RVoc 1.0 Oton "Fish" Ribic 33 KB A utility for converting VOCs into looping VOCs that can be used as sound objects.
OpenGL Silicon Graphics, Inc. 481 KB The standard for 3D rendering and 3D hardware acceleration. For more info, visit here.
View3DO "Alex" 130 KB A program to view 3DO files using OpenGL.