Post 15 Sep 2014, 03:07 by Lewin
Hi!
I wanna ask you, how to mod KAMR? I want to try modding. Maybe, add a some stupid house?
What i should know & do? Maybe someboda can write for me a tut?
KaM Remake was not designed to be extensively moddable beyond what you can do with dynamic scripts, which are not intended for stuff like adding houses. Games which can be extensively modded usually try to separate the "engine" and "game" code through an API (like dynamic scripts), or make it easy to add units and houses by editing resource files, without needing to touch any code. In KaM Remake we just have code which is both the engine and the game. It's easy/faster to code this way and in the first few years of development we didn't know if KaM Remake would be successful (we just wanted to get it playable, modding was very low on the priority list). Some stuff in KaM Remake can be changed by modifying resource files, but there is still a lot of hard coded stuff (e.g. you can't add a new house just by editing resource files, since the code needs to describe some aspects of how the house works).
However, the project is open source so you can recompile your own version of KaM Remake and make any changes you like. There's no limit to what you can mod by modifying the code. There is a rough tutorial for getting the game compiling here:
https://code.google.com/p/castlesand/wi ... ompilation
Beyond that, there's no tutorials for how to edit our code. Obviously you can read tutorials for the language/IDE, but you will need programming skill to understand and edit the code.
