Modding Tool: Quickstart
Modding Tool allows you to extract and replace assets. Packs mods to .stage.
Supported games:
Like Overstrike, it is made for 64-bit version of Windows.
On Linux, you can try using Proton to run it, but it's not guaranteed to work.
To run, it needs x64 version of .NET 7.0 Desktop Runtime installed.
Extract it anywhere you'd like and run 'ModdingTool.exe'.
If you'd like to build it yourself, or make some changes to the code, see Overstrike's Building.
If you'd like to contribute, please also see Overstrike's Code Style & Commit Guidelines.
Before you run it, you might want to rename one of the hashes file to 'hashes.txt'.
The one named so by default is for MSMR, MM and RCRA.
There are also 'hashes_i30.txt' and 'hashes_i33.txt' for i30 and i33.
If you want the tool to know file names from one of these, rename one of those files into 'hashes.txt' and then run the 'ModdingTool.exe'.
If you don't have those, get a 'hashes.zip' from Releases.
Use File menu to load 'toc' file.
On the left, folder tree would be displayed. Clicking one of the folders there shows the assets from that folder on the right. Assets that don't have a name in 'hashes.txt' are grouped by archive file in the [UNKNOWN] section. Audio assets (.wem) are grouped by archive file in the [WEM] section.
Right click folders in the free or assets in the table to open context menu. It allows you to extract the assets, copy their full file names or short unique references, or replace an asset with a file from your disk.
You can search for assets through Search window.
If you type multiple words (separated with a space), only assets that match all of the words would be displayed. Use the same context menu as in the main window, or double click an asset to view the folder it's in.
Use Search > Jump to path or ref... to quickly open a folder where specified asset is in.
When you replace an asset with file, it's not done instantly. You can see the list of assets replaced (and disk files used for them) if you use Mods > Pack replaced as .stage...
There, you can choose which game your mod is for, specify your name and name of your mod. You can also remove replacements by pressing Delete key after selecting them. Press "Pack as .stage" to save the mod as .stage file.
In addition to extracting and replacing assets one by one, there are also options to extract to stage and replace from stage. Here, "stage" means a subfolder of 'stages/' folder next to 'ModdingTool.exe'. Assets in stage follow the original folders structure, and are split by spans.
For example, if your stage is called "test", asset 'characters\hero\hero_spiderman\hero_spiderman_body.model' from span 0 would be extracted to 'stages/test/0/characters/hero/hero_spiderman/hero_spiderman_body.model'.
You can extract all the assets you need into a stage, modify the files there, and then easily replace all the assets at once with files from stage instead of replacing them one by one.