Difference between revisions of "Larian guides"

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Step 1: New Project - What type of project do I need?

• Campaign: You want to create an entire story, with levels and fights and dialogues, and a lot of scripting.
• Add-on: You want to modify non-story parts of the existing campaign or another mod.
• Story mod: You want to change or add to the Divinity Original Sin 2 story code.

Step 2: Load or Create Level

• Choose Level: Load an existing level in your project or in the campaign
• Create New Level: A fresh start.
• But I don't want to create or change a level: choose Sandbox. Choose sandbox if you want to work on treasure, stats, textures, models...

Step 3: Now how do I...

• MOD THE MAIN CAMPAIGN
• Modding visuals
• Change icons of statuses, skills, NPCs...
• Add player icons to select from
• Change 3D models
• Change a texture
• Change the atmosphere (lighting etc)
• Change animations
• Change existing materials, or create and assign new materials
• Change visual fx
• Change Balancing
• Change enemy and NPC stats and gear
• Change enemy behaviour and known skills
• Change base stats of player characters
• Change presets and create new presets ("classes")
• Change player weapon and armour stats
• Change some exposed combat and gameplay variables
• Change the gold value of things
• Change what food and potions do
• Change crafting ingredients and results
• Change treasure settings of containers and characters
• Change trade inventories of characters
• Change magical properties of magic modifiers on generated items
• Change settings of magic generation of items
• Change some talent settings
• Change skill properties (e.g. damage, action points...)
• Change skill, crafting and item requirements; and talent requirements
• Change how statuses act and react
• Change some exposed surface settings
• Translate the game
• By using a loca kit, not the modding tool.
• Make one of those fancy camera-flies-through-the-level movies?
• Use splines!
• Change interactivity
• Change what items you can pick up and move
• Change what item tooltips are shown in the world
• Change how items behave when you destroy them
• Change, add, remove use actions on items
• Change text
• Add hints to the loading screen
• Change character names, item names and item descriptions
• Change contents of books
• Change dialogs
• Change journal entries
• Redecorate existing levels
• Move items and characters around
• Change the terrain
• Add books to the game
• Add keys to existing chests
• Add chests and containers to the game
• Add decorational items to the game
• Add weapons and armour to the game
• Change terrain
• Modify scripting
• Change story code
• Change behaviour script code
• ADD STUFF TO THE MAIN CAMPAIGN

FAQ: Why can I not...

• Add talents to the game?
• Talents are coded in C++. They usually override or change the gameplay rules in such a unique way, that it's not viable to create reusable templates and make them data driven.
• Change all sounds in the game?
• We use Wwise and sounds have to be added and processed in Wwise.
• Mod the UI?