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Welcome to the LegendaryExplorer wiki!

If you're a mod developer and want to write a tutorial on how to do something modding related, feel free to make pages on this wiki and link to them on the ME3Tweaks Discord's #resources channel.

Getting Started

• Legendary Edition Modding: Getting Started

File & Data format

• Textures in the Mass Effect Trilogy
• Mass Effect 2 Coalesced.ini file format

Toolset

You can download stable releases of the toolset from the Releases tab, or you can download stable and nightly releases with ME3Tweaks Mod Manager. You can also build the toolset from source.

Core Editors

• Package Editor. Basics
• Dialogue Editor. Overview of the Dialogue Editor
• FaceFX Overview of FaceFX Editor and Creating Custom FaceFX
• Unrealscript in LegendaryExplorer

Utilities

• Asset Database. Quickly find assets
• Package Dumper. Find very specific usages of things
• Misc. Debugging the Mass Effect Trilogy

Tutorials

All games

• [intermediate] Intro to Plot Management, 55tumbl (Package Editor, Conditionals Editor, Plot Editor)
• [advanced] Adding your outfit armour for Shepard as a new asset (Package Editor, Mesh Explorer) - Game 2 and Game 3 only

ME1 & LE1

• [intermediate] How to port a hairstyle from The Sims 4
• [intermediate] Modifying 2DA tables via a DLC mod, 55tumbl (Package Editor)
• [advanced] Creating ME1 DLC mods with custom textures (Not applicable to LE1)

ME2 & LE2

• [easy] Adding powers to ME2 Shepard (Package Editor, Coalesced and in-game console)
• [easy] How to make your LE2 Coal Edits into the more compatible DLC Mods (Coalesced)
• [advanced] Creating Startup Files and Adding Custom Conditionals for ME2 Mods (Package Editor)

ME3 & LE3

• [easy] Adding Helmets Back To Cutscenes That Remove Them (Package Editor)
• [easy] How To Change Hair, Eye, and Skin Color for NPCS (Package Editor)
• [easy] Make a new email (Coalesced and TLK Editor)
• [easy] How to make your LE3 Coal Edits into the more compatible DLC Mods (Coalesced)
• [intermediate] Mass Effect 3 Camera Modding: From Noob to Not So Noob (Package Editor, Interp Editor)
• [intermediate] Adding your assets to the Store (Package Editor, Coalesced, ME3Tweaks Mod Manager)
• [advanced] Adding Hair to the Character Creator (Package Editor, Mesh Explorer)
• [advanced] Adding a Datapad and Message
• [advanced] Redirecting, Replacing and Adding Audio to Conversations (Package Editor, Sound Explorer, Dialogue Editor)

WIP

• ME3 - Changing armor on characters with an existing asset