Making mods

[Garbage Pail Kid]

I want to learn how to make mods, since lots of people have told me that it's a great credential to have when applying for a job in the gaming business. I realize it will be very hard and I will have to learn a ridiculous amount of information, but I don't care. So, anyone who knows about modding or knows some books/websites/whatever about it, please enlighten me.

[ZippyDSMlee]

I want to learn how to make mods, since lots of people have told me that it's a great credential to have when applying for a job in the gaming business. I realize it will be very hard and I will have to learn a ridiculous amount of information, but I don't care. So, anyone who knows about modding or knows some books/websites/whatever about it, please enlighten me.

what kind of mods are you looking into,I am currently going over scripting for Unreal 1 threw 03 and Quake 4.

My focus is on item and weapons mods I have been able to change a few weapons in unreal 1, and edit values in UT03 ,I was good at(for a noob) with unreal 1 it was alot like HTML,newer scripting languages have more nuances of there own and for acoupel years I was turned off by it but now I am interested in it again and learning what to do bit by bit.


if you have any of these games I would be than happy to share my info and links with you ,I only wish others would join us and we all can help each other figure it all out.

I will say this I am still a noob when I get acouple of full weapon mods working on Q4 I will say I am noobish :P

I just got UT03 in but have yet to fool with it so the only one I know "allot" on is unreal 1 *L*


ask or PM me I would be mroe than willing to help,there are some mapping books for UT I know of they are good for grasping the basics of mapping and such ,scripting you cant find much on and when you do they ate mapping not scripting.

FYI:scripting is coding

[Garbage Pail Kid]

I really don't know anything about modding, so I need to be educated about it. What kind of mods are there? I'd like to start with something easy, and try the more complex ones when I get better at it. I have UT2003 with the level editor, and I have the Half Life Platinum Collection (that's the original, OpFor, Blue Shift, Counterstrike, and Team Fortress.) I could probably find UT1 if I needed to. I appreciate the help, Zippy.

[ZippyDSMlee]

I really don't know anything about modding, so I need to be educated about it. What kind of mods are there? I'd like to start with something easy, and try the more complex ones when I get better at it. I have UT2003 with the level editor, and I have the Half Life Platinum Collection (that's the original, OpFor, Blue Shift, Counterstrike, and Team Fortress.) I could probably find UT1 if I needed to. I appreciate the help, Zippy.

I have gone mad looking for help,its least I can do to dive another as crazy as I :P


there are 3 main types of 'moding'
Skinning/Textures/Modeling(no not that kind silly head)
Scripting and codeing
Map making

I have made some small simple maps with the unreal editor its not to bad but my thing is game play true maps is part of it but one thing at a time ;p

[Garbage Pail Kid]

Skinning/Textures/Modeling(no not that kind silly head)

Tell me more about that one. I want a job as a character builder, so that one sounds perfect for me.

[ZippyDSMlee]

Tell me more about that one. I want a job as a character builder, so that one sounds perfect for me.

mind you my knowlage on this is 3rd hand,but depending on game you need a program to import/export textures/models then more often than not you need something to convert them to a more general use model or picture format.

I have messed around with some skins but other than that this not what I know and I barely know what I know in scripting *L*

I think the best game to start on would be UT2003 its old cheap and is alot like 04 ,U1/UT99 and even U2 are simply to old and only die hard fans should fool with them *L*

BTW my computer is fcked right now (between a compelte reinstall and a old frankenstine of parts).

[ZippyDSMlee]

ok heres a good modeling link for UT 03 this includes skinning and weapon crafting (ie modeling and skinning)

http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/Topics_On_Modeling


I am doing the scripting
http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/UnrealScript_Lessons

[ZippyDSMlee]

hhooollyyy shizzle...no wonder I was confused when I frist did U2-03 codeing acouple years ago whats was 2 at most 4 txt files is now 5-11 even more 0-o

least I found the ammo load code for the ut03 rocket launcher :P

[ZippyDSMlee]

I might have found it but I cant get it to work ut03 code is still quite beyond me ;_;

[Garbage Pail Kid]

Awesome! Thank you, Zippy.

[ZippyDSMlee]

Awesome! Thank you, Zippy.

have fun with it :X

heres a ok forum they've not helped me alot,but then I needs lots and lots of help X.X

http://forums.beyondunreal.com/index.php