Basic Modding Question

[jsurpless]

Hi

Just starting to understand how modding works... a general question

When first starting a mod - how does one know what to mod? For instance, this modification to base movement points

UPDATE Units SET BaseMoves=BaseMoves + 1;

Is there anything out there that would help me know that I can accomplish this by updating the 'Units' table and that the element I want to modify is 'BaseMoves'?

Or is it just a question of reviewing the base game XML files?

Hope that made some sense

Thanks!

 

[isau]

It might help to read my Into to Modding with Sqlite Studio in the Modding tutorial forum. It introduces the concepts at a high level.

You technically can rife through XML files but I don't very often unless I'm totally clueless about where something is. I use a SQL tool much to look thru the database much more frequently.

 

[jsurpless]

Thank you sir, that's exactly what I was thinking had to exist but couldn't find...