ModdingEx

An Unreal Engine 5 plugin with various tools helping you in the modding process. Mainly for usage with UE4SS

Features

• 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

Installation

Using prebuilt binaries 1) Go to Releases and download the latest one. 2) Drop the contents of the zip into your_uneal_project/Plugins/ (create the Plugins folder if it doesn't exist).

Building from source 1) Open the terminal. 1) Cd to your your_uneal_project/Plugins folder. 2) Execute git clone https://github.com/ToniMacaroni/ModdingEx. 3) Regenerate the solution for your Unreal project. 4) Open it in your favorite IDE and build the project.