Category:Guide

Here you can find guides on all sorts of things related to modding and developing Weissblatt. Below you can also find a list of recommended tools to help you get started.

Tools

If you're looking for tools to get started working on Weissblatt, here's what we use to make the game. Keep in mind there are many alternatives you can use, although we prefer to keep things accessible by sticking to FLOSS software where possible.

Making PK3 packages

Full article: PK3

• SLADE to manually inspect PK3 packages
• PK3Make to compile PK3 packages for larger projects

Programming

We recommend using a unix-like system to develop on, especially Linux. However, to ease your decision, here's our recommendation for which Linux distribution you may wanna pick:

• Linux Mint for beginners
• Arch Linux for advanced hackers
• Debian GNU/Linux for experienced greybeards

Tools for Linux/macOS/other unix-like platforms

• Vim to edit text on
• VSCodium (FLOSS fork of Microsoft Visual Studio Code)
• GCC to compile C code

Tools for Windows

• Microsoft Visual Studio (full IDE)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code (text editor)

• Notepad++ to edit text
• Microsoft MSVC compiler to compile C code

Pixel art and animation

• Aseprite (paid in pre-compiled form)
• Libresprite

3D modeling and animation

• Blender

Audio

Digital Music

• Furnace
• OpenMPT
• Ardour
• LMMS

MIDI Music

• Rosegarden for sequencing MIDI music
• Fluidsynth for engine-accurate MIDI playback (seriously - the engine runs on it)

Sound Effects, etc.

• DrPetter's sfxr (or jsfxr) for making sound effects
• Audacity for mixing