JKNotepad

This tool is supposed to help people edit and create various types of file formats, such as .skin files, .sab files, and many other text-based files. While it works, I find it less than helpful since it does very little more than, for instance, notepad would. Since you can edit all of these file types in notepad, the only real benefit here is that you can save directly to a file type without having to add the extension and choose "all files". However that never really struck me as that big of a hassle.

It is apparently customizable to an extent, however, allowing you to customize 10 entries for quick insertion into whatever file type you are working on, so you don't have to keep retyping common strings.

This program is also a beta, which is obvious if you start fooling around with it. I played around with a .skin file in it, making deliberate errors. and the Skin Check under tools found no abnormalities. Now maybe that's not what that tool is for, but with the less-than-adequate documentation coming with the utility it's a mystery to me. I also ran an error check on a working .sab file I had lying around, and it hilighted the entire thing as an error. So what are you basically getting here? A new notepad with a few helpful extras, several of which don't work right. I'm sure for some of you it's worth it, but seasoned modders will likely find notepad just as easy to work with, if not simpler in the long run.

Oh, and apparently shader support was not included. Shucks.

~Inyri