Forum:Posting a Modder's Guide to Paradox

Seeing that we are now beginning to see signs of the Third Chapter Paradox on the horizon, and subsequently the final product of the game that we will be working with... I think now is the time to start talking about How to mod the game.

To which, I can't help but notice there is nothing on the wiki site that seems to talk about how to do so. We have sections and tutorials on the site for how to create side stories for the first entry of the game, but as far as I know nothing for Paradox. Except for a few guides for how to translate the game posted in the blog.

Now for all I know there is some kind of legal reason for why we don't talk about modding Paradox, but it could just as well be that I am Sole Person in the Universe who actually knows how to mod the game. And as such it would be a travesty to continue sitting on that knowledge when I could be spreading that information out to the wider comunity.

To begin with:  Its actually quite "Easy" to do, and by using my methods all you really need is a dependable text editor and the Ytinasni.RpgMaker.Translator.exe. So by that definition, most of us are already started modding the game technically to some extent. However I have also figured out by fiddling around with the code, copy and pasteing, and lots of trial and error you add things like: custom cut-in animations, cheese the game by adding items to your inventory, arbitrarily add skills races and abilities to any actor, or even add your own ero scenes to the requestible menu of any given actor.

But, to be honest,  I have no idea if there is something horribly wrong to my methods either. I don't know if I'm slowly adding instability issues to the game by injecting new lines of code into the translator or whatever, and I have broken my game on several occasions in and various ways. (Never to the point of losing my saves irreparably damaging however.)   All I know is that when the modding does work, It just works.

Anyways the reason I'm posting this here in the Help Desk is because I've never really participated in a wiki before and don't know the edict or processes behind posting content. Also I havent actually written any guides yet and thought this would be a nice quiet place for the powers that be to shut me down now before things get out of hand.

Any thoughts or sugestions reguarding how to post the guides, the format they should take, the content they should cover (or to be explicitly avoided) would be apreciated. In turn I will atempt to adress any questions regarding the topic of modding paradox here while we try to get the Paradox Modding Comunity jump started.

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