POF Tools

Pof Tools is a program developed by community member Asteroth, which is meant to supplement and eventually replace PCS2 as the primary tool for modelers in the FreeSpace community. Compared its predecessor, it offers more features and ensures more stability.

Advantages over PCS2

• PCS2 will totally let you enter all sorts of invalid states, and put in bad data all over the place, which makes for a lot of nasty surprises when used in FSO. There are a lot of avenues for aiding the user, presenting data in more intuitive ways, and warning them about potential issues, which are primary goals of Pof Tools.
• The .pof format has been basically frozen since our only .pof authoring tool has not been maintained, preventing new features from being added and any that are added basically require hex-editing in order to do. This has also resulted in a lot of features that should have been in the .pof get put in the table instead, and nobody likes tweaking positional or directional vectors in text form.
• There is still that 1% you can't do, like the new features added that PCS2 doesn't support, and the various bugs it has accrued over the years.

Related Links

Release and discussion thread | Hard-Light Productions
GitHub page and direct download links | GitHub