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The various file formats in EU3 require different tools to edit.


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[edit] .dds modding utilities

  • DDS Utilities
  • 3ds max .dds plugin
  • Adobe Photoshop .dds plugins
  • DDS Utilities

[edit] .x modding utilities

[edit] Inferis' Simple Map Viewer

  • It allows you to view the map files (the .bmp files) in the map folder in a unified UI. This makes it simpler to browse your maps.
  • More about this tool

[edit] Text Editing

The most common text editor is Notepad, that comes with any installation of Windows. For most of the text file modding you will do in EU3 Notepad or Wordpad will be sufficient, but if you are doing a lot of editing it might be worth it to look at some more advanced tools:

  • UltraEdit by IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.
  • Crimson Editor a full-featured open source professional text editor.
  • Emacs - The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Download (look for the "bin" or "fullbin"-files) - FAQ for Windows version
  • DNOTE - Duncans Notepad - (Shareware) Allows editing of multiple text files simultaniously. Like the province files or the country and adviser files
  • Scintilla and Scite - another multiple text file editor with syntax formating, and bracket checking.
  • Notepad++ - a perennial favorite
  • gVim - this is one of the most complicated editors, but with complexity comes power!


[edit] Save Converters

  • EU2VIC - EU2VIC Converter. Page also has details on a EU3ToRev Converter Forum

[edit] Save Analyzers

  • EU3 save file analyzer. Requires

Python scripting language (free download from http://www.python.org ). Analyzes religions, cultures , cores and some more minor stuff.

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