Thread: I want to MOD
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Old 04-13-10, 06:23 PM   #10
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I had to look that one up.

I'll not argue with your statement in any way nor form!


But you know that the Wife will beat me when I try to use
this as an excuse to not mow the lawn don't you?



I got started by looking at something I wanted to change and then just dove into the files. Not to change them but to look at them and see how everything works together. Then I looked at sh3/4 mods to see how they achieved something similar to what I wanted and made the changes I wanted.. then comes the testing phase!

I'm almost mad at myself that I started modding. If sh5 had a counter on how many times I've booted it up i'd be close to 500+ by now. Sometimes modding is so damn frustrating and I have to make small incremental changes until I find out exactly what's causing it to not work how the files are set, and after each small change I have to boot up sh5 and either start a new campaign because loading a saved game doesn't work with some changes, or load up a mission i've made for the testing.

If I'd had a good enough computer when sh3 and sh4 came out for me to mod then I probably would have with those 2 also. All in all I'm having fun finding out how the game ticks but there's many things that are hardcoded or can't be changed and just makes me want to
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