Both tools have a point, just different ones ...
The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...
Pokemon DS Map Studio is a tool for creating gen 4 and gen 5 Pokémon games' maps, designed to be used alongside SDSME. It doesn't require 3D modeling, instead it provides a tilemap-like interface that ...