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I want to make a moddable game. How does this affect my programming language choice?
I have been getting started making some small games in Java, and I am considering learning C# for a bigger project. I would very much like to make a moddable game, but someone told me that I need to ...
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How do you add a scripting language to a game?
Let's say I have a game written in C++. But I want to add some modding or scripting functionality to it. How would one go about adding a scripting functionality to your game?
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How do I add a custom mob to Minecraft?
Basically decided to make my own mob, I have:
Created my mob's entity class
Created my mobs model class
Drawn the model
Added the function call for addMapping within the EntityList class
I'm stuck ...
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Recommended RPG game that can be used to learn game Modding? [closed]
I would like to learn game development via game modding. RPG/MMORPG is one of my favorite genres. Could someone recommend me a good and recent ( I would like to play the game as well) game to learn ...
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Ways to manage changing designer data alongside changing player data
I have an online game where players get to shape the world in some way - eg. Ultima Online's housing, where you get to build your houses directly onto certain parts of the world map. These are changes ...
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How do you make Minecraft mods? [closed]
I'm new to making minecraft mods and I'm wondering what I need to do to get started.
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Mods for Minecraft Server - how does it work?
Minecraft server comes as a single jar. How are mods developed? How do they interact with the original jar? What is there under the hood?
What technologies are involved there? I'm mostly a C++/Python ...
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How can I write a trigger to detect when a terran building burns to its death? (Starcraft 2)
I'm working with Starcraft 2 Map Editor, and am having a little bit of a trigger problem.
It's quite easy to detect when a specific unit kills a structure (simply check if triggering unit == ...
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Is Civ V as moddable as Civ IV?
Civilization IV was a highly moddable game, and many great mods/games were built off it (Fall From Heaven 2 being my personal favorite).
Does Civilization V have the same opportunities for modding ...
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Custom Music in Skyrim's Creation Kit?
Can you bring in external music such as mp3s? If so, how? I didn't see anything about this in the wiki Bethesda released.
Also how does this work with regards to the Steam Workshop? Don't ...
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Minecraft Mod portable torch/lantern
I have just started making a mod for minecraft, I learned how to make items and import custom png's and have gotten all of that to work. I have been searching around the code trying to find a way to ...
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What is server mod?
I know what a game mod is. But what is a server mod? Do clients need to install the server mod to get the features of that server mod?
Also, if I have a mod for a game installed on my computer, and I ...
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What AI modding is possible in Civ 5?
I'm interested in tinkering with the AI in Civ 5. I know there are XML files that can adjust the AI's strategies, but are there other easily moddable AI components? The XML files contain comments ...
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Do mods for games like Skyrim look good on a resume?
As a lot of people know, Bethesda just came out with their Creation Kit for developing mods to Skyrim.
I've been developing for a while, I have a couple of games released including one that's doing ...
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Can custom maps in Starcraft 2 automatically enable certain unit upgrades?
If I create a custom map with the Starcraft 2 map editor, how can I specify that some unit upgrades are already researched?
For example, if I want all the units to already have the weapons upgrade 1 ...
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Warcraft 3 Editor - Not triggering the Wait action?
Ok so this is mind boggling to me. Every time I've used something similiar before it works. I added messages to be displayed before everything happened to see where it would, and it never got past ...
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Civilization 4: time in own scenario runs up too quickly
In Civilization 4 (Beyond the Sword) I started making a scenario that focuses on the colonization of North America. For added realism, I set the StartYear=1780.
Everytime I run the scenario, the time ...
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XNA Moddable Game - Architecture Design and Reflection
I've decided to embark on an XNA moddable game project of a simple rogue style. For all purposes of this question, I'm going to not be using a scripting engine, but rather allow modders to directly ...
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How do you start modding a game without an editor?
I often come across very impressive mods for PC games that don't have an official editor, other development tools or its source code publicly available. (Take this amazing Multiplayer mod for Just ...
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Should I allow “low-level” access in my game for modders? [closed]
I'm thinking of adding a Lua interpreter in my game, giving various objects in the game script access to allow mods.
By how much should I expose to the scripting environment, I'm not sure.
Should I ...
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Skyrim Creation Kit with Xbox 360
I posted this on stackoverflow but was advised to post here (here is a link to the stackoverflow question). I'm hoping for constructive feedback on its plausibility.
Update on progress: It looks like ...
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How can I customize an FPS game?
I want to create a customized (modded) fps game where I can change the look and feel of the game to match my intended theme.
Some of the things I would like to do:
Create a custom map (terrain).
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What's the difference between creating a Source mod and just creating some levels?
I'm just starting to look into creating Source mods for HL2 and I'm a little bit confused. I've gone through some tutorials on level creating to get the basics and it seems to me that it's all that ...
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Augment an existing game with touch gestures
I want to enhance Homeworld 2 gameplay with touch gestures. The game is running on Windows.
So, two questions:
Is it possible to wrap the game with a program that would capture
touch gestures, ...
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Prevent Reavers from dealing splash damage to friendly and allied units
Just for fun I made some games in the Starcraft Broodwar map editor (scdraft2.0).
I notice that in my map Reavers deal damage to friendly and allied units as well as to neutral units. It's a cat and ...
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How to make an articulated mob in Minecraft?
I am attempting to make a sea serpent, and I want to know how to make it be able to turn in any place, or at each 'segment', somewhat like the snakes in mocreatures. I know how to make mobs in ...
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Which files should I be looking at to do a total conversion mod using the Source Engine?
I just installed Source SDK. Made a multiplayer mod from a template using Source Engine 2007. I'm currently using VS2008.
I was wondering which folder I should work in. For example weapons, which ...
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Free Moddable 2d game with good community and tools
Disclaimer: I'm okay with making this a community wiki, as I see a lot of benefit in having a place to ask this question and get good answers from people who have experience.
I would like to mod a 2D ...
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Is there an application that converts a PC into a video game kiosk/arcade machine?
Sorry to make the question so vague.
What I ultimately want is software that allows people to play independent video games on a PC and not have to worry about maintaining it.
Imagine a game that was ...
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First Minecraft mod not working: make a new sword
I am making my first mod and cannot see what is wrong with it. I am using MCP and Modloader.
For my first mod I was going to make swords.
I started with making a new EnumToolMaterials
WOOD(0, 59, ...
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What is a good “easily” moddable and scriptable 3D game?
I've made a fair number of 2D games (and actually completed/released a few of them). I'm hesitant to move into the 3D realm, because of the order of magnitude (everything takes ~10x more work).
To ...
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How do i get the X,Y and Z of the way my unit is facing?
I have the yaw and pitch of my unit at my disposal, I know if I use polar to cartesian conversion I'll get the X and Y of each one of those two, but I need them combined to give me the x,y and z of ...
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How can I get a list of all available entities in a Source engine game?
How can I get a list of all available entities in a Source engine game?
There is only one exported function in server DLL - CreateInterface, so it's not an option. In GoldSrc games server DLL ...
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SNES Bung Game Doctor, add RAM retention modification (battery backup) [closed]
Firstly I'd like to say that this doesn't seem like the right "forum" for this question as it actually doesn't relate directly to the development of games.
As this is my first post on 'game ...
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How do I make someone walk in Skyrim?
I'm coding a mod for Skyrim with Papyrus and the Creation Kit. I can't seem to get an Actor to move from point A to point B. I know there's a function to teleport an actor, but how can I make them ...
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Fix broken Portal 2 Chapter Handling in my Mod
I am running again into issues where my mod and the Portal 2 base game do not like each other!
In order to provide the proper menu background images and the music for each of the 5 (internal - ...
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What features should a moddable game have to make it easy to mod? [closed]
One of the objectives I have for a tactical RPG I'm making is moddability. My hope is that anything can be replaced with custom code.
For example: you can replace the combat system I did with, say, ...
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How can I edit .qvm (Quake Virtual Machine) files?
I was browsing through how to mod a game (Urban Terror, a Quake 3 mod). I found that it can be done by editing .qvm files in the game. Under the file named zpak000.pk3. That file contains other files ...
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Puzzled about game mods
I'm new to game development. I was thinking of different ways to create a game. I discovered Unity3d as much preferred indie game engine and yet so powerful. Then I read about game mods, which I found ...
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Starcraft II Galaxy Editor - Eventdefinition
I can create an Action with parameters using an Actiondefintion.
But how can I create an Eventdefinition ? I'd like to make an Event that is 'called' when a Unit, that is saved in a variable, dies. ...
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How can I mod the original The Sims? [closed]
While there are several places that still host old mods, I can't find any information on how they were created. A simple Google search reveals the promising Edith project, but it was never released. ...
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Awesome universal Mod Manager but where to get Mods? [closed]
I have had a simple Mod Installer/manager that works for most games for awhile. Until recently it was just my friends and I using it privately. So we did upload files from other places and used it ...
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How to make someone walk in skyrim? [duplicate]
I'm coding a mod for skyrim with papyrus and the creation kit. But I can't seem to get an Actor to move from point a to point b. I know there's a function to teleport an actor but how can I make them ...
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How to change followers' return position in Creation kit?
In the Creation Kit, how do you change the location of where followers return to when you part with them?
I would like to add more people to the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary already in Vanilla Skyrim.
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How to write an addon for League of Legends? [closed]
I would like to write a simple UI extension that I think would be very helpful in games. I was looking for some developers guide but haven't found any yet.
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Pathfinding using nodes/waypoints without connecting them?
I've been doing some research on pathfinding lately because I want to code a game modification for a game (won't say which exactly) and what I've done is defined a huge list of 3D vectors where a ...
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How do i make a minecraft server mod? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Mods for Minecraft Server - how does it work?
I have made some minecraft client mods, but i've started a server a mounth ago and i want to make a mod for it, but i cant ...
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Is a programmer liable for copyright infringement in other people's mods to his games?
If a programmer (P) releases a game, and a modder (M) releases a game modification which includes copyrighted content, can P be held liable for the copyright infringement in the mod?
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Are there any good guides for making mods for Minecraft? [closed]
I've been coding in Java for 5 months at work now, and having past experience with programming in other languages, modifying existing code at Uni etc. I feel like I want to get started on (read: ...
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Is there a way to legally create a game mod? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How closely can a game resemble another game without legal problems
Some questions about it:
If I create a funny version of a copyrighted game and sell it (crediting ...
