Quote: How to use:
Place the ToolSharp.exe into your hce root directory.
VS2010Renderers.dll should be copied into the root dir as well.
Run ToolSharp for the first time- may take a minute. It creates a bunch of threads on start and then scans all your shaders
Now go to Plugins -> Manage Plugins. Inside the box right-click and press "Install Plugin" or press CTRL + i, now add all of the plugins, ie:
Gurella.dll
CSharpExample.dll
JMS Explorer.dll
-What's left should be the two BlamLib dlls- go to your appdata roaming folder, scroll down to tsharp, go into the plugins folder and place these two dll's in it. They aren't plugins so Tool # will ignore them, but there's no easy way to manage them.

tip: an easy way to get to the appdata folder is by typing %appdata% in the address bar of your file explorer.

-included is an example plugin's source, made in Vis Studio 2008 (because I dislike using 2010 with a passion)

This is Dwood's plugin set for ToolSharp, plus the ToolSharp executable and the gurella bitmap plugin by Chaos, aka formlesstree

In this program you will find various features you may find useful. My favorite is the ability to back up one's tag, it backs the tags that are dependent on the tag as well. So if you had, say, a tag like a halo 3 trip mine, you could reference the main trip mine tag, and then you select the tag and back it up. the result should be in the root tags folder. If it's not, look for it in the folder where the tag you want backed up or packaged for release.

Dink around with it, I'll have a tutorial for creating a plugin for it up one of these days plus a tutorial on using BlamLib's _POWERFUL_ tag tools.

OP from Chaos:

1. Plug-in System
2. Complete File System Watcher (for Tag Directory, real-time updates on your shader modifications!)
3. More thorough shader scanner that, combined with the Watcher, keep track of all the shaders in your halo custom edition tags directory
4. Remember previously scanned Tags (faster startup time)
5. Generalized Save System (for the Plug-in System)
6. Remember previously opened Windows (for Plug-in System*)
7. Tool Manager (allows for using multiple Tool.exe and variants)
8. Almost no forms are embedded into the program


And probably more that I have forgotten to list.

Included in Tool # right now:

1. A bitmaps plugin for processing bitmap tasks with Tool
2. A plug-in manager for easily installing, uninstalling and updating plug-ins.
3. A Tool Manager for adding and removing different "tool" programs (such as Toolio, Toolpro, and OS_Tool).
4. A Method to back up tags and all the files they depend on into a .rar format.

What is to come:

1. More Plug-ins for the other features of the default tool
2. Documentation for writing plug-ins
3. A JMS Editor for editing map, model, and weapon JMS files (another plug-in)
4. Implement the saving and loading modules to actually save and load batch files
5. Finish a few quirky bugs with the GUI

--Back to Dwood--

The JMS Explorer thing is an experiment, and still in progress. What it does is bring two JMS models together- you WILL see major updates to this coming for this. In fact, it may end up as a stand-alone app... Or at least, it won't be contained by ToolSharp.

There are still many bugs and issues with this app. If you have a problem with any plugins or the app please post in the modacity release thread found here: http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?23002-Tool

Quote: --- Original message by: Maniac1000
Just so i am clear in this, what can this thing do that i can not do with Tool, Ahobo and kornman00?

Quote: --- Original message by: Dwood



If you're talking about the tool functionality it will when you, say, compile a bsp from jms file, go through your shaders, and see if you have a shader there, and give you the option of pre-generating the shaders before you start the compile. If you do this with tool, tool freaks out and cancels the compile or something dumb like that.

If you're talking about other features, you should use the app and find out tbh.
Edited by Dwood on Apr 16, 2011 at 01:39 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Maniac1000

Tool will generate shaders if you do not have any with the correct names.
Will your tool do this differently?

Quote: --- Original message by: Maniac1000
I am not trying to shoot down your ideas man, i am just trying to understand how this could benefit me.

Quote: --- Original message by: XlzQwerty1
As other people would say, No Info/No Pic, no download.

Quote: --- Original message by: Dwood

2. Complete File System Watcher (for Tag Directory, real-time updates on your shader modifications!)

Included in Tool # right now:

1. A bitmaps plugin for processing bitmap tasks with Tool

4. A Method to back up tags and all the files they depend on into a .rar format.

Quote: --- Original message by: Maniac1000


2-Realtime shader modifications?
1-Processing=extracting or compiling or both?
4-That could be handy.

Quote: --- Original message by: Maniac1000
posting so i do not have to check your edit.

Quote: --- Original message by: XlzQwerty1

Can you explain to me what the bitmap plugin does?

This tool will be very handy for me. Downloaded it already.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Apr 16, 2011 at 03:31 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: Dancing Mad
I find the program quite nifty, but I have problem with backing up tags. It gives me this error message;

Any idea I'm doing wrong?

Quote: --- Original message by: SlappyThePirate
This seems like it would be helpful, bitmap-wise, but I keep getting exceptions, and I can't seem to be able to add the CSharpExample.dll plugin.
Description of the program in the first post would be beneficial.

Quote: --- Original message by: Dave Needs A Shave
Dwood's xfire is.

Quote: --- Original message by: Dwood


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