Modding Best Practices

Modding Best Practices

File/Folder Structure/Organization

[Upcoming Multitool Feature may be worth mentioning here?]

[Naming Root Templates]

[Prefixing]

Tools

Visual Studio Code

LSLib

Multitool

Git

General

[Template Projects]

[Loose Files and Why Not to Do Them]

[File Formatting]

Asking for Help

[Best places to get help for specific things]

• Larian Discord #bg3-modding, #bg3-wip-mods, #bg3-scripting
• Down By the River #modders-talk, #modders-helpboard

[How to ask for help]

• Don't ask to ask, just ask
• Question structure

[Keep questions public when possible, to help others]

Spells/Data

Overwriting

[Zerb did a great short guide on how to do this well]

Localization

[Generate Handles via the Multitool, not your brain]

XML

Scripting

Modeling

Texturing

Testing

Release

[Readme's - make a template?]

[The Importance of Changelogs]

Clean-up

[Separate Release & Source folders]

[Removing unnecessary files]