Starforge has its abilities to input any data, but that's for the most part useless.
UnKnown Edit: The only map editor for Macs. Still in works. Trigger exporting, units, terrain.
Staredit mods (like X-tra Editor 2.6/FartyEdit) can be useful, since they're pretty stable and can save/load triggers.
http://www.staredit.net/topic/8305/ has reached a plateau and hasn't really been updated in a while.
Notepad++ and either MacroTriggers or ProTRG: Both are basically compilers for triggers, MacroTriggers is it's own language with documentation, ProTRG is built on Python. MacroTriggers is cleaner looking, but isn't supported any more and lacks a few useful features, and ProTRG is definitely the best choice for anything complex. Basically, these allow you to easily duplicate triggers using arrays and variables and loops and make your mapping experience less of a brute-forcing experience, and more of a problem solving intensive job. Notepad++ is the text editor through which both of them are made to run, and the compiled triggers are put into SCM Draft's text trigger format.
TinyMap2: For compression when you're finished, by far the best compressor, and just as an unintentional side-effect, it also happens to stop basically all unprotectors out right now. If it glitches on your map, switch back to TinyMap.
DatEdit: A modding program that comes in handy as a reference sheet for SC unit's properties, things like weapons range, vision range, attack speed, and other useful information can be obtained from it.
PColor: Only truly useful if you're going for some of the funky player colors, lets you preview what certain player colors look like so you can easily pick one.
Falkoner's Terrain Compilation: If you're going to do any major terraining, having a huge selection of blends to pick from is very useful, this compilation I made a while back has maps for every tileset that show different terrain blends, for easy copy/pasting into a map.
SC Map Importer/Exporter (SCMIE) A very convenient tool that lets you transfer just about anything from one map to another.
IrfanView (freeware program) or Zamzar (website requiring an eMail account) can be used to view and/or convert .pcx files to other image formats.
If you have a suggestion what program should be on that list too, briefly explain to me why it's useful and provide a download link if possible.
Post has been edited 6 time(s), last time on Jul 25 2017, 5:59 am by NudeRaider.