How do I use editor to edit Cairn in my mod?

[Danahan]

Hello. I’m trying to make a custom NPC along with custom mobs, place them on modded Cairn and set some related quests but I’m having a hard time even on getting started. I DID find how to make a custom NPC from this post;

Problem: Adding a custom NPC with a custom Quest.

Hey! I have recently picked up an old mod that i started on when the modkit came out. I’m making a little self-contained world, with a new map, quests, npc and story, etc. I’m at the point now where the map is kindof done and i’m starting to add the other stuff. Problem is, I cant seam to figure out howto add a custom nps with my custom quests. I have looked all over the place and experimented with teh mod tutorial but im getting nowhere. Can some please help me and push me in the right direc…

Problem: Adding a custom NPC with a custom Quest.

Requires some hassle.

-You must set up a quest in the quest editor.
-You must make a new npc. (Better copy an existing one, like Barnabas)
-You must make a conversation in the conversation editor, and assign the conversation file to the appropriate field in their file. (And quest ID if you want quest markers)
-You must append the quest in the world editor for it to finally work.

(Auto-building assets between each step and such I did not mentio as I consider them given)

Why don’t you download a simple mod and reverse engineer it? The modding tutorial mod is quite good for this. Got you nowhere I noticed just now.

But how do I actually place them via Editor? All I’m getting is this at this stage.

Where do I go from here? Please help me. I really want to get this done. Thank you.

[Katabug]

I see you’ve made your own mod, this is great, you’re half way there. What you need now is the world001.wrl file. But unfortunately, when Asset Manager extracts all the Grim Dawn files it doesn’t extract the map files.

You need to use separate programs to actually extract and convert the files.

ArchiveTool, Grimarc and MapDecomp. These are command line tools and trust me, it’s a real pain to do.

But after a lot of trial and error, I’ve finally managed to extract the latest version of the game’s map. So if you have the latest version of the game (with both expansion packs) I’d be happy to upload the files for you so you don’t have to go through all the hassle of doing it yourself.

Then all you’ll need to do is copy the files to your mod and build it. You should then be able to open the world001.wrl in the Editor and make your changes.

Let me know if you’d like them.

[Danahan]

I see you’ve made your own mod, this is great, you’re half way there. What you need now is the world001.wrl file. But unfortunately, when Asset Manager extracts all the Grim Dawn files it doesn’t extract the map files.

You need to use separate programs to actually extract and convert the files.

ArchiveTool, Grimarc and MapDecomp. These are command line tools and trust me, it’s a real pain to do.

But after a lot of trial and error, I’ve finally managed to extract the latest version of the game’s map. So if you have the latest version of the game (with both expansion packs) I’d be happy to upload the files for you so you don’t have to go through all the hassle of doing it yourself.

Then all you’ll need to do is copy the files to your mod and build it. You should then be able to open the world001.wrl in the Editor and make your changes.

Let me know if you’d like them.

I would very very very much like them please! How should we make this gracious transfer? Hahaha
I will send you my email address via message service of this forum. Thank you.

[Katabug]

No worries, here you go (I’ll post the link here in case others want it as well):

GDX2 World Map Files

I’ve included a readme with instructions on how to use them as well. Let me know if everything uploaded ok (the extracted file should be about 3.60 GB in size).

But a word of advice, if you’re new to all this, start out small. What you want to do is pretty advanced stuff. So I suggest you follow a couple of tutorials first:

Simple Map Making for Dummies

So, someone sent me a message asking for a bit of advice on how to set up a mod so you can start playing around with all that stuff. I may have gotten carried away and made an entire guide… sortof. Thought I’d post it here. It’s short, simple, and should hopefully get you working on your own mod pretty quick. And just so you know, this isn’t a guide about making the map itself, rather just getting things setup so you can make and play with your world as you make it. Use the Asset Manager firs…

[Script][Basics]Modding Beginner's Guide II

Summary: This tutorial scopes with the setup and a basic overview of the most relevant modding tools. It therefore shows how to setup the Asset Manager properly and in this part explains how to create your first mod. Parts Index Modding Beginner’s Guide I Modding Beginner’s Guide II Modding Beginner’s Guide III (yet to come) Index 1.0 Preparation 1.1 Tools Overview 1.1.1 Asset Manager 1.1.2 World Editor 1.1.3 Quest Editor 1.1.4 Conversation Editor 1.1.5 PSEditor 1.2 Prepar…

Start out making your own small world to get a handle on how the Editor works. I’m not kidding when I tell you the world map is HUGE! And it’s very easy to screw things up if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Best of luck to you

[Katabug]

One last thing, I’ve already done something similar to what you want to do (only I made my own map for it).

I wrote it up as a tutorial, but I never published it, because it’s very involved and complicated and I didn’t think anybody would be able to follow it.

But I’ll give you the link, cause it might be of help to you:

Grim Dawn Modding: Simple Kill Quest

Hope it helps

[Danahan]

No worries, here you go (I’ll post the link here in case others want it as well):

I wrote it up as a tutorial, but I never published it, because it’s very involved and complicated and I didn’t think anybody would be able to follow it.

But I’ll give you the link, cause it might be of help to you:

Again, Thank you so much! This would help me great amount. Before, I had no worries or what so ever about editing this part of the mod but now that you mention it, I realized I just didn’t know what I was really getting into. Hahahaha. But thanks to your guidance I am certain I won’t be challenged as much as I was going to be should I have done this alone.