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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

• How to build the toolset from source

Modding Tools

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

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