Project IGI Game Converter vs Rusted PackFile Manager

Project IGI Game Converter is a standalone tool for inspecting and converting Project IGI 1 files, intended for modders and researchers working with game assets. It handles proprietary textures, meshes, scripts, archives, terrain, fonts, animations, audio, AI graphs, and lightmaps, with workflows for editing assets and putting them back into the game. Its GUI offers a searchable file tree, 3D model and 2D texture viewers, a texture editor, script and hex inspectors, and conversion actions. It can render MEF and OBJ models, export MEF to OBJ, convert TEX, SPR, and PIC images, and save texture edits in native formats. It also converts between QVM bytecode and QSC source and exports DAT mappings to JSON or binary packages. The CLI supports scripted builds, batch work, and recursive folder processing. Available on Windows and macOS, it is free under an MIT license. The Windows release retains the GUI; the macOS release is an Apple Silicon CLI build for macOS 12.0 or later. Applying model textures in the GUI requires choosing the active level folder in Settings.

Rusted PackFile Manager (RPFM) opens, inspects, edits and saves PackFiles for Total War games from Empire onward, including Pharaoh, Warhammer 3, Troy, Three Kingdoms, Attila and Rome 2. Its pack editor handles multiple archives and supports bulk file additions, extraction, renaming, duplication and deletion. Editors cover database tables, localisation, scripts, animations, models and other listed game formats. The DB editor offers schema-aware lookups, sorting, filtering and TSV import and export; localisation data can also be exchanged through TSV. Global search and replace spans packs, vanilla data and parent mods, and diagnostics flag issues including invalid references, missing localisation, portrait variants and animation gaps. Per-game MyMod workspaces include asset folders, templates, import and export, and one-click installation to a game's data folder. Translation tools connect mod translations with the Total War Translation Hub. A headless server provides a documented WebSocket protocol and an MCP endpoint with more than 150 tools, prompts and resources. RPFM is free under the MIT License; listed platforms are API, Linux, self-hosted and Windows.