Tools

This page contains a list of tools developed by the community for modding purposes, as well as tools developed outside the community which are also useful for modding.

Tool	Author	Description
Industrial Park	igorseabra4	Viewer and editor for HIP/HOP archives
HipHopTool	igorseabra4	Used to extract, edit and create new HIP/HOP archives
BFBB Patch Tool	Seil	Allows creation and applying of patches for modified content in BFBB; used for distribution of mods
BFBBAnimTools	Seil	Script for importing and exporting ANIM assets in 3ds Max.
Hans	igorseabra4	Save file editor
QuickBMS	Luigi Auriemma	Previous tool for HIP/HOP, did not allow complex editing of the files
RW Analyze	Steve M.	Used to view the tree structure of RenderWare files (models)
rwio	The Hero	Plugin for 3ds Max which allows importing and exporting of RenderWare DFFs.
Magic.TXD	The_GTA	Editor for RenderWare textures
BrawlCrate	Various	Allows editing GC icons stored in tpl format.
TextureTool	Penney16	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	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	Automatically converts video files into a .bik file that is already formatted to work in almost every Heavy Iron Renderware game.
The GoodEditor-2	Penney16	Used to edit .ho parcels and can (for now) edit SimpleObject & Platform assets' Position Rotation and Scale X, Y and Z and edit the Collision Flag and Visibility Flag of a SimpleObjects.
HiHoTool	igorseabra4	Used to extract and edit assets from .ho parcels.
Collin	Mem	Spongebob's Truth or Square & Wall-E modding tool
Plankton	Mem	.HO archive editor (all games)
DynamicGeometry	Mem	A "Spongebobs Truth or Square" (2009) StaticGeometry editor

Assets/Resources

This section contains assets to be freely used for modding provided by users in the Heavy Iron Modding discord

Assets	Author	Description
BfBB Simple Level Template	Double H	Contains a flat plain, tikis, blocks, button & gate, springboard, hovering platform, collectables, and some robots. A blank version with just a plain is included as well.
CB02 Models	Penney16	Some custom models and textures of Spongebob's house, Patrick's, and Squidward's used in CB02.
CB Sounds	Penney16	2 custom sounds that were used in some of Penney16's mods.
BfBB Taskbox Template	Olaia	Taskbox template for bfbb with cameras.
Lighthouse Model	Pepperpot	Lighthouse Model (Includes .blend, .obj., .mtl) Requires: bubble_buddy (gl01), building_grey3 (gl01), building_red (gl01)