We got Panacotta in chat, by the way.

Do you want to do your shoutout?

Yeah,

shoutout to

Panacotta.

All right,

cool.

That's all I'm going to say.

But let's talk about the modding community,

because you're

helping out a lot in the community.

It feels

like,

at

least.

I'm trying to be as much help as I can and just like whenever someone asks me technical questions about the engine I just try to like yeah this is how we do it and don't be obtuse about it unless it's like something we don't want to spoil a surprise yeah then we don't talk about it but otherwise

I'm just open and say what we do and sending code snippets this is how we do it and then people usually find a workaround because like I'm so so amazed by this modding community we have no modding support we have

done basically nothing else than send them some more information and they've made fucking amazing

things.

I noticed that we have some small file in the game that tells the... What's it called?

Not the

headers, maybe, but

the... Yeah,

community resources.

Yeah, something like that.

Did we

add that because people were asking for it?

Yeah,

exactly.

Because people were asking, the VQ people tended to ask about values of stuff.

And they instead, and they had, we decided to do all the packages unencrypted.

So instead of them just going through and data mine it, I went on a few nights when I didn't want to

do anything else.

I just sat there and made a JSON export and then exported the data.

And then I made a short little snippet that just copies all our headers in from the game and just puts them in there, sits them and puts them so modders can get them and do their C++ modeling support better.

but how does that help them like does it just give them access to stuff that they can call or how

does it work uh from now i don't haven't don't know exactly what they do i've tried to like understand what they're doing but i think panna cata has a better idea of what they're doing but uh

I mean, I hope you made a mod.

Yeah, but from what I understand is people used from the beginning, we ship the PDBs, that is basically the debug symbols from the game, so from there you can extract all functions, all function names and all variables, and then instead of them just reverse engineering those things and recreating because all objects in the game need to have this

The mods need to have the same data layout as our game and our had is help them to give us the exact data later layout of everything so then they can just take The data that we have in the game and do other stuff with it than we do right so and like figure out Oh, there's a function that does this and then they change how it what it's actually doing and

Pretty rad.