Baldur´s Gate 3 Message Board  

Wow.. how the heck are you figuring out how to do all this stuff??!! I guess I'm too old.. I was hoping to just hexedit a save game file for a character like we did with gold box PC games on floppies in 1990 .. lol If you can share, let us know. would love to see this!

Jeff

i'm familiar enough with the engine from modding files for Divinity games... so unpacking the game files and finding the right lines to change isn't that hard

here's my character creation set... now Drow get their proper Drow armour to wear from the start

Link

Is there a helpful tutorial for getting started with this that you can point us towards? Thanks!

sadly not really

the pak files the game is packaged up in are quite commonly used... there's various tools around to unpack the files so you can edit them, i use LisLib personally, but that's just out of preference as i've been using it for so long lol

A lot of modding work just comes from trial and error sadly... i'm experimenting and trying to unpack the model files so i can edit them properly... as i really hate the +1 and +2 bows with the odd spike bits coming off of the bow itself... ugly and completely unnecessary lol

I've tried opening the shared.pak file with 7-zip but it says it can't open its as an archive. So I'm not really sure what else to do at this point, I also tried winzip and it still won't as I get the same error lol :/. I'm hoping a save editor will come out but I would love to get in those pak files myself

LisLib v1.15.1 has a menu selection specially for Baldur's Gate 3 now for unpacking the Pak files... i'd personally recommend using that if you want to start modifying the game files

Thank you Methos2523! I'll give it a shot

its worth it... i'd also recommend notepad++ for editing if you don't have a proper coding software... it's free and really easy to get to grips with

will save you a lot of time going through various lines looking for lines that identify certain armour / weapon lol