Composer: thank you for an informative reply. Appreciate it.
BG3 is mainly "Anubis" (lua) and Osiris, both has pretty solid documentation already as far as scripting goes. Other engine features such as dialogue editor, quest journal etc is fair to expect to be rather straight forward and intuitive based on experience in older engines.
From what you say it isn't that bad, after all. Firstly, you say the engine is mostly Osiris based and there will be similarities to the older editors (I assume DOS2), which is great. In other words, more experience in DOS2 tools = better preparation as we wait for BG3 tools.
Larian has confirmed modding support for "at or after full release", but what that entails isn't elaborated upon. Many assume this means access to the new version of Larian's engine similar to Dos2, but there's no details public about exactly what to expect or hope for yet.
That brings another question, namely when will BG3 launch in full. I've read public announcements saying some time in 2022, but unofficial gossips mentioned to expect rather 2023 (various YouTube videos etc.). From what I see by simply playing the game, there surely is still a lot to do. It doesn't seem that the full game will be released today or tomorrow.
I got the impression more like a year or even more.
There are various tools pinned on Discord in regards to unpacking .pak files, so anything not relying on osiris/anubis compilers there is readily moddable, but not supported by Larian until full release. Norbyte also has a beta for his BG3 extender which may allow for some lua scripting as well, however I haven't gotten around to try it out myself yet.
What is the link to Discord? Is it possible to take a look/participate in Discord discussions? I still mess around in DOS2 editor, but once I'm done with that, I will be curious to take a look, unpack BG3 goodies and play around. Maybe this would mean a possibility to release something fan-made even without the editor.
