Modding Reference Links [Modding Guides, Tools & Tutorials]

[Kieve]

The stickied posts have been getting a little crowded of late. In the interest of keeping clutter down, Ultramantis and I figured perhaps it's better to have a master list as the Working Mods do - which I used for reference in compiling some of this list. I've tried to cull some of the defunct, abandoned, or otherwise outdated links, but if you find something you believe should be on here, feel free to post it for consideration.

Mod Managers

• SMM - Slipstream Mod Manager v1.4 - Author: Vhati
  NOTE - Slipstream is the succesor to GMM created by one of GMM developers. It is highly recommended because it's faster, has fewer bugs/issues and is actively developed.
• [outdated]GMM - Grognak's Mod Manager v1.7 - Author: Grognak

Tools & Utilities

• FTL Ship Editor: Superliminal 2 [Beta] - kartoFlane
• FTL Ship Editor: Superluminal - kartoFlane Not compatible with Advanced Edition
• FTLEdit: FTL Ship editor - Darkfrost
• FTL Error Checker v 0.98 - kartoFlane
• FTL Dat Manager (Java .dat packer/unpacker) [WIP] - KuroSaru
• ftldat - Unpacks .dat files - bas
• [Mod/Framework] Universal Starting Beacon v1.15 (Requires SMM v1.2 or higher) - kartoFlane
• [outdated]CrazyMLC's Ship Editor - CrazyMLC
• [outdated]FTL UnPacker - GUI .dat unpacker/repacker - Didero
• [abandoned]tazardar's FTL Ship Creator - tazardar

Guides & Tutorials

• Superluminal Guides - kartoFlane
• New Guide on creating weapons - Metzelmax
• Weapon Boost Effect by gentasaurus New
• Creating Shield Images (Written & Video) - collaborative
• How to Reliably Assign Genders in FTL events - NewAgeOfPower
• Modding drone textures - Sleeper Service
• Creating Player Ships with FTLEdit - alextfish
• custom events & sectors - CaptainShooby
• XML Elements List - marinepower
• X-dependant events! - Alblaka
• Sector music playlist - Koborover
• Alternate hull strength HUD - Kierany9
• [Outdated]Creating your own weapons - AtillaBosma
• The Modding Discussion thread
• The Shipyard - Community modding resource thred. Ship, weapons and other images.

Savegame Editors

• Save Game Backup Tool - SWSMAN
• FTL Homeworld v2.1 - iceburg333 - This tool makes it possible to change ships mid-game
• FTL Editor (aka ComaToes Profile/SavedGame Editor) - Vhati
• Savegame Checkpoint script (for Mac) - snarke

Project Overdrive

• Game engine rewrite to allow for enhanced moddability. More details are in the thread: FTL: Overdrive

Testing Environment

• Mod by TaxiService to allow convenient testing of ships and weapons: Ship Testing Environment New

[dalolorn]

I wouldn't call ftldat outdated. When FTL Dat Manager failed for me, ftldat took over just fine.

Unsupported by its author, sure, but not outdated.

I think AtillaBosma's guide has been rendered useless by Metzelmax's guide, though.

[UltraMantis]

ftldat is very usefull and still used by Slipstream unless i'm mistaken. That is why i didn't want to remove ftldat from the list entirely. Afterall it still works but for most cases DatManager is prefered and i thought this should be reflected in the list.

[outdated] may be a little unflattering to bas, be no disrespect was intended.

[Vhati]

ftldat is very usefull and still used by Slipstream unless i'm mistaken.

Slipstream doesn't use ftldat per se.
I only used ftldat's Python code as a reference, to write Java code from scratch that works the same way.

IMO, that new code is tidier than "datLib.java" which comes with DatManager.


What end users prefer for messing with resources is a separate matter.

[kartoFlane]

I've also written one other tool, the error checker, though it has stayed a bit under the radar of the modding community

[Kieve]

I've also written one other tool, the error checker, though it has stayed a bit under the radar of the modding community

Added, and I've removed the "outdated" tag from FTLDat for good measure. Honestly, I still use it in raw form to this day, for quick compile / decompile of assets

[UltraMantis]

Next person that bitches it triggered off their AV is on you Kieve.

[dalolorn]

Meh, my AV tried to sandbox Slipstream to figure out what it did.

Of course, that didn't go anywhere...

[Kieve]

Added NAOP's tutorial for shield images. A bit overdue, but at least it hasn't sunk off the page yet

[NewAgeOfPower]

It's not my tutorial- I was a bit tired of making poor shields and having to use stock, so I asked for some tips.

I received more useful feedback than expected, and the thread quickly became an organized resource.