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Welcome to Heavy Iron Modding!

This wiki is exclusive to modding Heavy Iron games on the RenderWare engine. Here, you will find useful technical information about 5 Heavy Iron games from the RenderWare era:

• Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• The Incredibles
• The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

Mods

Check the Mods page for all community made mods you can play yourself.

Modding guides

• Setting up Dolphin for modding - explains how to set up Dolphin so you can play a modded copy of the game.
• Randomizer
• Playlist of video tutorials covering various subjects

Essentials series

This series of modding tutorials is meant to introduce modding of Battle for Bikini Bottom, and the other games, to beginners, in addition to covering other in-depth topics.

Introductory series

Read all of these pages before starting modding, as they contain the most basic info.

1. Introduction
2. Industrial Park basics
3. Editing Assets
4. Templates
5. Links
6. Dispatchers
7. Tikis and Enemies

In-Depth guides

Creating custom levels or exporting/importing other custom content in the game.

• Sound and Music
• Extracting Models
• Custom Models
• Custom Animations

Asset guides

Information on specific in-game items and controllers.

• Boulders
• Buttons
• Cameras
• Counters
• Conditionals
• Duplicatotron
• Particles
• Platforms
• Portals
• SIMPs (Simple Objects)
• Slides
• Springboards
• Stage Controllers
• Talk Boxes
• Timers
• Triggers
• User Interfaces

Other guides

• Porting a GameCube level to Xbox
• Asset porting
• Adding Vertex Color To Models
• How To Rip Rigged Models from a CSN Asset
• IDA Pro Setup Guide
• Basic asset editing (deprecated)

Formats

• Data Types
• Assets
• Events
• HIP/HOP Format
• SDF Format
• Sound Format

Game/Disc Filesystem

• Filesystem (Battle for Bikini Bottom)
• Filesystem (The Spongebob Squarepants Movie Game)
• Filesystem (Scooby-Doo: Night Of 100 Frights)
• Filesystem (The Incredibles)

Tools

Tool	Author	Version	Description
Industrial Park	igorseabra4	Preview 57.1	Viewer and editor for HIP/HOP archives
HipHopTool	igorseabra4	0.5	Used to extract, edit and create new HIP/HOP archives
BFBB Patch Tool	Seil	0.5	Allows creation and applying of patches for modified content in BFBB; used for distribution of mods
BFBBAnimTools	Seil	1.0.1	Script for importing and exporting ANIM assets in 3ds Max.
Hans	igorseabra4	0.1	Save file editor
QuickBMS	Luigi Auriemma	0.9.0	Previous tool for HIP/HOP, did not allow complex editing of the files
RW Analyze	Steve M.	0.4b	Used to view the tree structure of RenderWare files (models)
rwio	The Hero	3.1d	Plugin for 3ds Max which allows importing and exporting of RenderWare DFFs.
Magic.TXD	The_GTA	1.1	Editor for RenderWare textures
BrawlCrate	Various	0.30	Allows editing GC icons stored in tpl format.
TextureTool	Penney16	2.0	Used to quickly resize an image you wish to use as a texture for BFBB, as well as extra useful features.
BFBB JSP Tool	igorseabra4	0.2	Converts JSP and DFF files from the XBOX version of Battle For Bikini Bottom to OBJ. Deprecated in favor of Industrial Park's internal exporter.
Heavy Iron Bik Converter	Suprnova	1.1	Automatically converts video files into a .bik file that is already formatted to work in almost every Heavy Iron Renderware game.

Other Projects

Name	Author	Version	Description
BFBB Decompilation	BFBB Decomp Team		Disassembly of BFBB, useful for seeing the game's internals. Currently focuses on the GameCube disc.