Illusion Games general modding guide

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Basic concepts

The concept of modding basically boils down to modifying the data read by the game to change the game's behavior. Common things to mod including translation of in-game buttons (which are pictures), in-game story (which are text), clothing (textures), and skin/uncensor (textures).

The data that needs to be modified are often packed in a larger file. Thus a modder first needs to use a tool to extract the data out, modify it, then put it back in.

Different games may have different details in how data are packaged, and what needs to be modded.

Common tools

For extraction/insertion:

Name	Games supported	Ability
BXPlay	DB4, DBVR	Plays .bxn movie files, allows extraction of still images
SB2TCP	IPVR, SB2, Biko 3	Extract and inject images (BMP and TGA) from Illusion packages (.fpk and .pp). Does not work on .pp files of newer Illusion games.
IluPak	Rapelay, SB3	Unpack and repack .pp files. Does not work on .pp files of older Illusion games.
ILLUSIONist	Rapelay, SB3	inject files into .pp files

For data modification:

Name	Usage
Adobe Photoshop	Image editing
GIMP	Image editing
MS Paint	Image editing
Notepad	Text editing
frhed	Hex editing
Metasequoia	3D editing