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#Homeworld remastered collection mod installation install
#Homeworld remastered collection mod installation mod

This file allows the game to identify where to index data from.

#Homeworld remastered collection mod installation mod

I've already removed all the other files so my mod is essentially only comprised of my_mod\ship\hgn_ioncannonfrigate\hgn_ioncannonfrigate.ship.īefore we can start, we'll also need to add an empty file called keeper.txt to the root directory of our mod like so: my_mod\keeper.txt. Let's continue from the example above, and say I want to modify the Hiigaran ion cannon to fly twice as fast. If I only cared about making ion frigates twice as fast, I could delete every other file except my_mod\ship\hgn_ioncannonfrigate\hgn_ioncannonfrigate.ship as this is the file I'll need to change.

At this point we should delete any files we're not interested in modifying.

Repeat this step as necessary to add more data to your mod folder.

Extract the contents of the big into a folder:Īrchive.exe -a Įxample: Archive.exe -a HW2Ships.big -e my_mod.

I'll go forwards with this as an example. That means if you want to make changes to a HW2 ship, you're only going to be interested in HW2Ships.big. When modding, you only need to keep the files you actually want to change - do not bother to include any files you aren't modifying. You can play around with it as you get more comfortable though. I prefer to copy these into Archive.exe's directory as it makes the commands much simpler.

The files we're after are the xxx.big files located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\Data.

Open any Command Line Interface (CLI) on your machine (such as the Command Prompt), and cd into Archive.exe's location:Ĭd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\GBXTools\WorkshopTool".

This is a command-line tool which can do various things with the compressed data files that store HWRM's moddable data. Within the \GBXTools\WorkshopTool\ directory exists Archive.exe. The tools will be installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\GBXTools\. This package includes all the tooling necessary to begin modding, as well as some extra stuff.

#Homeworld remastered collection mod installation install

Go to Steam -> Library -> Tools and install the Homeworld Remastered Toolkit. This is a very terse step-by-step which will work with HWRM v2.1 on Windows 10 with Gearbox-only tooling. Many guides are out of date, or use outdated tools. Getting into modding can be pretty daunting.