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Cortex Software

Tools for your
kind of work.

Create liveries. Keep great clips. Make your setup yours. Free software for the things you care about.

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Cortex Studio showing a sheriff livery texture beside its live 3D vehicle preview
Cortex StudioA real-time 3D livery development environment for GTA V and FiveM.
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Built around what you do.

From the first texture to the finished clip, the work is yours. The tools should feel that way, too.

The Cortex collection.
Cortex StudioActive

See the livery on the model while you make it.

Keep your graphics editor open beside Studio. Every save refreshes the texture on the loaded asset, so scale, placement, and variant differences stay visible throughout the job.

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Two sheriff vehicles with coordinated liveries shown side by side in Cortex Studio
  • Load .yft vehicle models and .ydd clothing assets
  • Apply and refresh textures in real time
  • Watch texture files for external edits
Cortex ToolBoxActive

Open the resource. See what needs work.

Edit manifests and metadata, inspect scripts, design vehicle assets, and prepare releases from one local workspace.

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Cortex Wire showing scripts, commands, events, and their connected relationships

Map scripts, events, commands, and configuration relationships.

SwitchboardAvailable now

Keep the good parts.

Record gameplay, save replays, and edit clips on Windows. Trim footage, adjust audio, assemble montages, and export a copy to share.

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Switchboard editing a War Thunder replay with a trim timeline and game audio waveform
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TailmarkActive

Know what's inside before it touches your game.

Tailmark installer queue showing analysed War Thunder skin and sound archives with ready, duplicate, and review states

Tailmark inspects War Thunder mod archives before installation, classifies their contents, and flags conflicts or duplicates. It backs up replaced files, records each operation, and rolls back a failed install.

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OpenNGENUITYTech demonstrator

An experiment. Now in Switchboard.

OpenNGENUITY device workbench for a HyperX QuadCast 2 with capability-matched microphone controls

OpenNGENUITY was a tech demonstrator built to explore the limits of local HyperX device control. All of its features have since been implemented in Switchboard.

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SentryFree Windows release

Sentry

Sentry Home showing a storage map of a demo Google Drive, usage totals, files worth a look, and recent activity

See what fills your Windows drives and folders in one storage map. Sentry works locally without an account; optional Google Drive access uses your own Google Cloud Desktop OAuth client.

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Your machine. Your work.

Local files, visible decisions, and tools with a specific job. That's the common thread.

  1. LocalBefore cloud.
  2. UsefulBefore ornamental.
  3. OpenBefore closed, wherever openness helps.
  4. ReviewBefore destructive changes.
  5. One focused toolBefore a sprawling platform.

The Cortex collection.

A focused tool for each part of the job.

  1. Cortex StudioLivery development environmentActive
  2. Cortex ToolBoxFiveM resource workbenchActive
  3. TailmarkMod installation managerActive
  4. OpenNGENUITYHardware control experimentTech demonstrator
  5. SentryStorage and Google DriveFree Windows release
  6. SwitchboardGame capture and editingAvailable now

Run it locally. Read the code.

Cortex products are free and run on your machine. For released software, the repository is the record of what shipped and what changed.

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