Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General Modding/Editing

Is there a way to create a mod / editing the game? I mean editing monster stat, or even creating new quest? Are there tools for doing that?

AFAIK the main option is hex-editing, which seems pretty tedious to me. Larian's games aren't very mod-friendly, unfortunately.

D2:ED may possibly get modding tools at some point after the international release. Unfortunately, there were none released for DD or BD (Larian used some tools that were proprietary and could not be re-distributed, and others were not user friendly enough for general use).

Editing monster stats may be possible using a hex editor, but there is no easy way to add quests or change the environment, etc.


Teleporting Anywhere, via hex editor

Reviving dead NPCs

So the only way is through a hex-editor, how much difficult it can be learning this kind of editing, and which hex-editor do you reccommend (did i spell it right???)?

In principle hex editing is not too much more difficult than text editing, assuming you can get use to hex notation (numbers 0-9 and letters A-F). The Windows calculator program in (advanced/scientific mode) can convert between decimal and hex values.
Considering what would probably be achievable with modding DD, it may not be worth learning how to hex edit just for that, but if you want to learn anyway this could be an interesting project. Even with modding tools available (with some other game), some basic hex knowledge should be useful, or helpful if you ever want to do any programming or registry editing to change hidden Windows options, etc.

Anyway, I described how I figured out the hex teleport and stat/skill/etc editing for Beyond Divinity awhile ago: see here. A program that searches for ASCII text in binary files can help you get an idea of the file structure, if there are text heading or comments in the file (I use a program called Peek, but don't know if it works in XP/Vista).

I would suggest you start by reading the DD hex teleport and resurrect topics, and perhaps those for BD, as well. If it all Greek to you, you may need to look for an online tutorial, or something. If it makes sense, at least a little, then you may be able to dive right in and try the procedures out, then see what else you can figure out (see the topic Some more hex offsets...).

I use Hackman (v7, the freeware edition of v8 is crippled by a low file size limit), primarily out of habit. This was the first relatively full featured hex editor I found with a file compare feature. I have not tried anything else recently, so there could be something else as good or better out there.

Since you asked, there is only one 'c' in recommend.