Mac 2D Art Tools

[Archean]

Included in this file are:
- A Macintosh compatible version of the MPQ2K
- A Macintosh version of the BLP Tools
- The lists of path names for both Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne

If you don't know how to use them, here is a very short and simple tutorial that I've written teaching people how to use them correctly..

I am not the creator of any of these tools. I compiled them together and wrote a tutorial on how to use them because they had gotten lost with the old wc3campaigns site. The author of the tools is Jean-Francois Roy (BahamutZERO) and is given all due to credits in the readme.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Your post seems messed up, I can not see any jass on it. Please update and fix that since this would not be the jass submission fourm without submitting jass.

Read more carefully before spamming other peoples tools in the wrong section infuture.

Moved from jass submissions to tools.

 

[Archean]

Damn. I'm sorry about that. I honestly thougth it was the tools section. My apologies, really. Don't know how I missed that...

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Would be nice with a sticky containing ALL Mac-only tools that are not allready in our tool database and not only 2d-art tools, though these are nice, good job. But if you dig up everything you can find of Mac tools (that are free to use) I would get it a sticky thread.

 

[Archean]

That's exactly what I'm trying to do. There used to be a Mac version of UMSWE available which I owned, but it got lost over time, and was only available on the old wc3campaigns site.
If anyone has got any other tools that are Mac compatible, please tell me about them and I'll create a Mac tools pack.

 

[thesteelshark]

now we just need 3D tools for mac, I would so love to have that

 

[Ardnived]

me too, but im having problems with the BLP Converter i cant seem to open it

 

[Denigo]

I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.10 on a pre-Intel PPC 2.7ghz dual proc tower. Neither of the mac tools linked above (MPQ2K and BLP Tools) will work for me. Don't know if it's the OS version or what?

BUT - I found MPQ Extractor 1.0 (requires 10.4 and later) that works great:

http://www.devklog.net/2007/02/09/mpq-extractor-10/

Now i just need a graphic converter for blp to tga and back... I can't find one anywhere that works with my system. Anybody know of one? Or of a way I can get BLP Tools to work?

 

[DesKaladA]

I have already played god on this topic once before
agen, Darwine is a leagl and free dos interpture, basacly letting you run any tool you want on mac osx.

And i say once more
+rep god or he smites you

 

[Denigo]

OMG Sweet! Thanks Your Highness!

Is this app run through the terminal? Is it 'idiot proof' at all? I'm afraid of Unix shells and X11 and non-noobfriendly technobabble, lol.

.... but i will brave it to finally get to convert my tga's to blp, heh.

 

[DesKaladA]

yes its "idoti proof"
also remember some tools wont work with it but moast will

 

[dankBUDDZ420ie]

Well macs are ftl for editing games basically you shoulda thought about that already

 

[Denigo]

Well macs are ftl for editing games basically you shoulda thought about that already

Thanks for the shrewd insight. Thank goodness my primary reason for buying a mac wasn't to use the World Editor or I'd really be screwed.

In spite of your revelation, though, I'd still like to find a blp - tga converter that works with the latest Mac OSX, so if you find one, post again. Otherwise, we already know Mac resources for the WE are hard to find. Reiterating that is not really very helpful.

 

[Huinipachutli]

when i try to open MPQ2K Mac edition i get an "Application Launch failure" stating:
"the application MPQ2K could not be launched because of a shared library error <MPQ2K><MPQ2K><StormCarbon><>"

what does this mean? anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Denigo]

when i try to open MPQ2K Mac edition i get an "Application Launch failure" stating:
"the application MPQ2K could not be launched because of a shared library error <MPQ2K><MPQ2K><StormCarbon><>"

what does this mean? anyone know how to fix this?

Dunno what it means other than "somebody messed up a line of code", lol, but I get exactly the same error. Some type of clash with Mac OS X 10.4, I'm assuming?

ANYWAY: I found a Mac MPQ extractor that works!! Here's the link:
http://www.devklog.net/2007/02/09/mpq-extractor-10/

Not sure about 10.5 (most recent OS X iteration); I haven't upgraded yet. But it does work perfectly with 10.4.

Now if I could just find a blp<---->tga converter that works, I'd be in business.

 

[Technomancer]

Both my versions of BLP Tools and MPQ2K work on my 1.5 Leopard, and have worked for me on most previous versions of Mac OS X, including Tiger.

I could possibly email you guys my copies, see if that makes a difference. PM me if you want me to, and I'll try and remember.