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ME3 included a blank stub for вЂappErrorFвЂ™, which we hooked to get a basic level of debugging, but itвЂ™s still pretty weak and often doesnвЂ™t have any useful information.

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This log functionality was removed in ME2, and all internal debug code also was stripped out, so debugging ME2 is nearly impossible.

#Tool mod manager Pc

ME1 on PC included the application log functionality, which wrote a bunch of useful information to the Documents/BioWare/Mass Effect/Logs folder, including crash information (such as loading an unused mip). I would love to have a conversation with BioWare to discuss things that could help the modding scene that should not take a lot of effort to implement, but IвЂ™ll detail some of them below.

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They will also blame mod developers because BioWareвЂ™s statements made them think this was easy вЂ“ we have users already come for assistance asking why these games are not easy to mod like Skyrim.Д«ioWare for nearly a decade has seemingly taken a вЂdo not acknowledge modsвЂ™ policy, so for them to say theyвЂ™re working with the mod community out of the blue is a real whiplash for the scene. End users will blame both us, the tool developers, and BioWare, as they feel they were mislead. I do feel that there is an expectation of modding Legendary Edition that is not actually based in reality, and itвЂ™s going to cause issues if the game turns out to not be so easy to work with. Many mod authors are also excited to work on legendary edition.

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You cannot bolt proper mod support onto a game, it must be done from the start, and nobody reasonable expected BioWare to do such a thing.Д®ver since Mac Walters tweeted about working with the modding community, I have had dozens of people message me directly about how theyвЂ™re excited to have existing mods work on legendary edition. These tools are practically required to mod the trilogy (excluding texture-only mods), and all three of the developers know the engine internals in ways that many mod developers donвЂ™t вЂ“ for example, the flags in package headers, various file formats, how property serialization works in our games, UnrealвЂ™s memory system, etc.ДЄt this point in development of Legendary Edition, there is not a lot that BioWare can internally change to help with modding. We are the ones who build and maintain the tools (ME3Explorer) that are used to make mods, and I personally am the one who also builds the tools that installs the majority of said mods (ME3Tweaks Mod Manager). Nobody in the toolset development group has been contacted, which consists of three people: Myself (Mgamerz), SirCxyrtyx, and Kinkojiro. However, IвЂ™m not under NDA, so I can tell you what I know. IвЂ™m curious, but I also understand whoever they are, they are under NDA, and asking people things who are under NDA just makes their life more difficult. Many of my older mods even have issues, but the game somehow still works with them.Д®ssentially, you can think of it this way: Will vanilla package files from the trilogy games work on legendary edition? IвЂ™m extremely doubtful, there are too many dependencies on core files that are nearly guaranteed to be changed.Д«ut BioWare says theyвЂ™re working with the modding community?Д«ioWare may be working with some people, but IвЂ™m not sure who. Unless BioWare changes absolutely nothing in their game, things will not work.Д¬omplicating matters is that while our modding tools have improved greatly recently, many mods were built with older, buggier tools, and it is more a bug that they actually work in the game, rather than them actually being properly supported. On top of this, each game in the trilogy is on a different build of Unreal Engine 3 with more and more BioWare changes on top, and that spans 5 years of engine development by Epic Games as well. Our files are tied to certain engine versions of BioWareвЂ™s fork of Unreal Engine 3. sfm are package files, and are what comprise of the majority of each game. To be clear, when I say вЂexisting modsвЂ™, I mean package file based mods, which is the majority of mods. Will existing mods work on Legendary Edition? IвЂ™d like to share with you what I know about the new games, what they mean for modding, and what my plans are going forward, as I have had many people ask or tell me things that need to be cleared up. Recently, BioWare announced Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which is a remastered version of the original three games.

#Tool mod manager software

If youвЂ™ve modded the series recently as an end user or a developer there is a high likelyhood youвЂ™ve used my software to do some or all of it. I also write end user installation tools ME3Tweaks Mod Manager and ALOT Installer. IвЂ™m Mgamerz, owner of, and the lead developer of the Mass Effect Trilogy editor toolset, ME3Explorer.