I'd like to gather useful information and tools in a single thread; to help the modding community. Any suggestions for changes and new stuff, feel free to comment below. I'd also like to feature mods people have made here; anyone can suggest a mod with a link. If the modification has a page dedicated to it, no matter the site, but is created by the original author, please link the page instead of a straight download link.
I'm also willing to provide help and answers to questions asked in this thread. We've also put together a website dedicated to FC4 modding; Feel free to visit.
Installing the Mod Tools
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Other Tools For Modding
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User-Mods For Far Cry 4
Editor Mods:
Editor mods are modifications which extend the In-Game Editor of the game. These include modifications which add new textures, objects, roads, collections or change any of the things mentioned before.
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Cosmetic Mods
Cosmetic mods are modifications which only alter the outlook of the game- not it's gameplay. Cosmetic mods include skins and texture packs.
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Gameplay Mods:
Gameplay mods are modifications which alter the way the game is played, such changes include modified weapon balance, UI elements, changes to vehicles or the progression of the game.
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Miscellaneous Mods:
Miscellaneous mods are modifications which don't fit into any of the mentioned categories, or are a mixture of many categories.
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They read your mind.Originally Posted by flying_saucerz Go to original post
http://jravens.wix.com/farcrymods#!f...sion-mod/c1o48
So far, your definition files have let me compile the .ark.xml files back to .ark.fcb. So again, a big thanks for that!
However, I started thinking that I should probably re-extract each .fat/.dat so I would have a better idea of what files live where.
But once I tried to extract them, I got an error about a hash collision which caused the Unpack tool to fail.
Since it showed me the problematic name, I did a quick grep for it in the project files and found that it was in the file "merged.filelist".
So I decided to clean up the file, since it looked like it was the result of a 'strings' output that still had lots of duplicates and invalid filenames.
(i.e. single number prefixing the entry; while others had a colon in the middle, which is an invalid character for a file/dir name)
Here is what I did:
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Having done that, it will now extract all the main .fat/.dat files without errors.
And from the looks of it, has a LOT more things with actual names, rather than their hashes!
If anyone is interested, here is the updated file: merged.filelist
(This is a replacement for the file "Far Cry 4\files\merged.filelist" from the "FarCry4_Project.rar" linked in the original post.)
Finally, please let me know if I changed/removed anything that I shouldn't have... it was trivial to do, so redoing it (correctly) wouldn't be an issue.
Bookmarked. I'd endorse and give you a cookie if I could.
I'm not terribly tech savvy myself but I will absolutely be monitoring any mod developments for FC4 because, despite it's current state, which I find unplayable, it has so much potential. Just a few tweaks (Get rid of all situational prompts except grapple and climb so you can still tarzan from cliff to cliff, and tone down the karma events and animal madness) and this game would be soooo much better.