Arcane University:Software

This is the main page of the software tools being used for Beyond Skyrim.

Level Design & Implementation

• Creation Kit
  • Legendary Edition/32 bit version (Steam)
  • Special Edition/64 bit version (Bethesda.net Launcher)
• Papyrus Compiler (link)
• Scripting tools
  • Notepad++: text editor
  • Sublime: text editor
• xEdit: Editing .esm and .esp files with more flexibility, resolving plugin conflicts
• xLODGen
• DynDOLOD
• NifTools
  • NifSkope: Opening, viewing, and editing .nif files
  • NifUtilsSuite: Contains ChunkMerge for transferring collision, and other useful tools
• Sniff: Batch operations on .nif files
• Octagon: Batch operations on .dds files

Concept Art

• Graphics tablet with pen pressure.
• Drawing program, f.ex Gimp, Krita, Photoshop, Clip Studio.

Writing

• Google Docs
• Google Drawings (on occasion - for outlines)

3D

• 3ds Max: Modeling, animation
• Blender (free): Modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation
• Maya: Modeling, animation
• Mudbox: Sculpting
• Quixel Mixer (free, in beta): Texturing
• Substance Painter (free with a student license): Texturing and baking
• xNormal (free): Baking
• ZBrush: Modeling, texturing, sculpting