I would like to mod the camera to suit my own personal taste. I found the variables for that in gameengine.dbr.
Can i overwrite the original gameengine.dbr, or do i need to make a seperate mod build to run the game with the new camera values?
Afaik, you have to build a mod, it will be a single dbr, so a very small database.arz. Be sure to use the full path to the gameengine.dbr as in vanilla. “records/game/gameengine.dbr” iirc, and then make the modifications as you desire.
Unless crate has a way to prevent it, he can overwrite the original database.dbr in grim Dawn/database, but this will exclude him from playing mp
The other downside to this approach is when a patch gets released and writes over the file, or if the user verifies their game files. They would need to copy it back into the game folder.
Of course, if Crate makes changes to that file, then the user would need to update the newest file and then copy it to the directory.
Sadly even a 1 dbr file mod moves you to modiverse and don’t have easy access to your characters, items, recipes and such.
Because of Chibba’s reason, I sometimes change the camera perspective of original database (not mod).
The method is simple.
- First, make your camera mod. For example, the name is “camera”.
- Next, copy the original database.arz to Grim Dawn\mods\camera\database.
- Delete the camera.arz and change the name of the copied database.arz to “camera.arz”.
- Rebuild the camera mod using the AssetManager.
- Copy it to the Grim Dawn\database folder and change the file name to database.arz. Before this, remember to keep the original database.arz backed up.
- that’s all.
Thanks for the reply people!
Great tip Matougi, thanks!