ST-CS-10-339-75
March 2002
2. Applications (U)
Eleven applications and utilities were used in the development of this
report. In general, the links here are to the home pages of the
applications, rather than to locally available downloads.
- Font Creator
- A superb true-type font editor. Used to add the underscore to the
Batik font displayed by this report. (Netscape users do not see this
font due to lack of server-side font support in NN 6.x).
- Milkshape
- Milkshape is a map creator tool, as Worldcraft is, but here it was only
used to decompose the model files to verify their hit box dimensions.
- mkmovie
- This is a command line utility for unpacking the file generated
by the startmovie command (which is basically a series of BMP files
all joined together) into individual BMP files.
- Model Viewer
- The model viewer was used to obtain the hit box images in section I,
and to obtain the source image used to add the hitbox overlay to the hitbox
error video. Made by the author of Milkshape (hence the same URL).
- O&O Defrag 2000 Pro
- The defragmentation application used to keep the hard disk in good shape
for movie capture.
- Paint Shop Pro
- The de facto image processing package for Windows.
- SuperCache
- This is the disk write caching application necessary to permit on the
fly movie capture with Half-life.
- VideoMach
- This video editing application is capable of taking a large number
of BMP files (generated by mkmovie) and converting them into an
AVI file.
- VirtualDub
- A fantastic video editing application. The author has used VirtualDub
for some time and gives a strong recommendation, especially for video
capture work.
- Wally
- Wally is a WAD file creator and editor and was used to create the
summerblue.wad file. Wally can also very very easily create colour
decals.
- Worldcraft
- Worldcraft is the map creator application created by Valve. A little quirky
and the only application the author has ever used which can properly lock up
Windows 2000, forcing a reboot, but highly functional. The .rmf files in
the maps page are for use with Worldcraft.