Poll: Modding

[NikNaks]

How many of you guys actively mod games as opposed to just playing them? I've been messing around with Civ 4 for a looong while now, and I'm wondering if there are other modders on this forum.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Aside fom the original Quake, not really.

Even then it was just map and gametype building rathre than full conversions.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I sometimes make random additions to things like Morrowind and Oblivion, but that's about it.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Occasionally mapping, but that's it.

 

[CriMs0nC0bra]

If the game has a built-in option, I I usually do(like with Fallout 3's G.E.C.K.). Otherwise, it's kind of dependent on what the game is. I also modded The Sims 2 to get more meshes, which I usually skinned myself.
As for Civ4, I played it, but never modded it.

 

[neuromasser]

I sometimes make random additions to things like Morrowind and Oblivion, but that's about it.

I used to do this. Also I made that famous GTA IV mod long before our pirates did here, I basically changed all of the cars in the game, added some more city parts (like rollercoaster-like island) changed textures of NPCs, buildings and some other stuff that I forgot. Most of that I found on some german site that no one here knew about, and some stuff I improvised
Edit:I forgot to say, everything was made on good ol' Windows 98. That was 2002, I was 13 years old

 

[Sgt Doom]

Most of my modding is limited to putting a big bunch of mods that I like together. STALKER, in particular, is a game in which WinMerge and a workable knowledge of the game's basic behaviour comes in quite handy even if not actually making mods.

 

[D_987]

I'm currently learning how to use XNA in order to create community games on XBL but I havn't really modded except for Half-Life using Source.

 

[DanielK]

http://www.thedarkmod.com/

Helped a little with textures.

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

I use them occasionally to breathe some new life into a game that's getting stale for me. I'm running a custom sound pack with L4D.

This video has most of the soundpack's stuff placed over the intro movie. I found it hilarious the first time I saw it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441UwCYPPUU

 

[NikNaks]

So there are some others out there Good to know. Civ 4 is a good one to mod as the entire game is open and written in Python and C++. Not that I'm much of a programmer; I tend to help out with graphics and grunt work like XMLing. How hard are others to mod? I know The Sims and SimCity have places ready to add things in, but what about other things?