An integrated development environment for Bethesda Plugin Files.

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Download a release from the releases tab and install or extract it, then run zEdit.exe.

This is a git repository. If you want to help with development you'll need to clone it using git from the command line or a Git GUI client. If you're going to use a Git GUI client I recommend GitKraken.

zEdit is a Windows x64 NodeJS Electron application. Install NodeJS LTS 64-bit, then start a terminal/command prompt in the application directory and run node -v and npm -v. The output should be v8.11.x and 5.6.x or newer. If you get anything else you probably have multiple installations of node which you'll need to sort out.

Before installing node modules you need to tell NodeJS where Python is so it can build certain native dependencies. Install python 2.7* and add an environmental variable PYTHON set to the full path to python.exe. E.g. C:\dev\lang\Python27\python.exe. Restart your command prompt and test the environmental variable by typing echo %PYTHON%.

You will also need to install the windows-build-tools package. Run npm install --global --production windows-build-tools in an elevated command prompt to do so.

Clone zEdit and run npm install in an elevated command prompt in its directory. This will install required node modules and dependencies. You will also need to run npm run rebuild to rebuild the xelib native node addon to work with Electron.

Initialize submodules with git submodule update --init, and install gulp with npm i gulp-cli -g.

You can then run the application with npm start. You can build a release of the application using npm run release.

NOTE: If you get Error: Electron failed to install correctly, simply delete the node_modules\electron folder if present and run npm install again. You can also try npm install electron if this doesn't work.

If you're looking for support or want to contribute, join the Modding Tools discord server.

You can view project progress and user stories on the trello board.