An Unreal Engine 5 plugin with various tools helping you in the modding process. Mainly for usage with UE4SS
- Handle cooking and packaging for mods automatically
- Packaging happens on a per mod basis, all mod specific files are being tracked without the need to play around with chunks
- Start the game from the editor
- Optionally build mods before starting the game
- Build mods in the correct structure and convention to the game dir
- Sanity checks like checking the hash before and after build to make sure content has changed
- Kill processes to allow for pak overwrite (list is configurable)
- Mod creator: Create mods with the click of a button. It will create a "ModActor" blueprint in the correct folder structure. The Blueprint will have all lua interop events and info properties initialized.
- Configurable (e.g. add custom commonly used events to the mod creation process)
- Zip your mod for release
Using prebuilt binaries
- Go to Releases and download the latest one.
- Drop the contents of the zip into
your_uneal_project/Plugins/(create thePluginsfolder if it doesn't exist).
Building from source
- Open the terminal.
- Cd to your
your_uneal_project/Pluginsfolder. - Execute
git clone https://github.com/ToniMacaroni/ModdingEx. - Regenerate the solution for your Unreal project.
- Open it in your favorite IDE and build the project.