Reply To: Newbie Questions

James wrote:

Y’all,

I’m completely new to modding, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to actually change things without destroying them. I’ve finally found the actual game files, or at least some of them. There don’t seem to be any audio files or images, it’s a bunch of Java Script files.

2) where are all the images and audio files that this code presumably uses to, you know, run the game?

From what I can tell the sound files are stored in ‘banks’ which we can’t (?) access, I would hazard a guess though that they are linked/paired with the ability ID’s you’ll find in the corresponding monster files. The images are located in each individual monster directory, stored within a separate folder. So the images for the swine reaver (the one with the ball and chain) are located in monsters/swine_reaver/anim and monsters/swine_reaver/fx.

So here are my newbie questions:

1) what can I touch without incurring the wrath of Azathoth?

WITHOUT incurring the wrath? Almost nothing. I’ve managed to strip all the trinkets, quirks, abilities, camping skills, available inventory, and text from the game on more than one occasion. I’ve also had the game CTD immediately upon entering combat if a monster isn’t set up correctly and fail to load because I’ve forgotten {‘s or “‘s. I highly recommend backing up your save-game before testing out changes – this way you can restore it if/when things go… poorly.