It's all in the wiki.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Enfusion_Blender_Tools

HTH

The link you provided states that you must have arma reforger to access the tools; I'm asking if there is a way to access the tool advertised on the site, without needing to install steam. (portable binary)

Hello!
The Reforger modding tools are tied to the ownership of the game on Steam and there is no separate install for them.

There also is no separate standalone version of Enfusion Engine you could use separately from the Game.

Thank you for the information, although it is an unfortunate circumstance.
For DayZ, on systems that require the proton compatibility layer, the tools and the game have different virtual filesystems.
As a result, the tools never recognize that the game is installed, and other operations fail because of the seperate filesystems.

If I may ask another question which appreciates your authority on the topic, are all of the tools for DayZ content generation homebrewed by BI, or are they sourced by commissioning 3rd parties?

I ask because, I would like to create a suite of tools for modding DayZ that are more stable and working on posix compliant systems.

Set your Proton prefix to the same one as the game you want recognized with STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="<your/path/to/prefix>". This way it works for Reforger. And in my experience, Enfusion workbench is more stable on Linux under Proton than it is on Windows.

Interesting, I may have tried this before with DayZ tools, I could try again. Thanks for the information.

No worries, let me know if you need more help. I got Workbench to work beautifully on Linux, it runs faster than on my Windows as well. Hopefully it only gets better.

I appreciate the offer, you have the DayZ tools workbench working? I see you mention you're using the Arma Reforger workbench. What did you have to do to get it to work?
With DayZ tools I tracked the error down to most likely being caused by the games sharing different proton installs. I've attempted as many workarounds as I could find, with no success. Workbench fails to launch with an error message: "Game is not installed... exiting."
The "P:" drive also fails to mount, I tried both choosing a custom directory for the P: drive and letting it default.
I haven't looked at it in a while, so I can't tell you what the errors are right now; I also do not have the game / steam installed at this time.

The last couple times I messed with it, I would get errors when trying to extract the game code, but this used to work.
Other than that the other programs in the suite launch, I don't know if they work.

That's good to hear, I hope I can get something working soon for DayZ, I have a lot of ideas and I need to start making some of them.