How moddable will Baldur's Gate 3 be?

[RathAzu]

With the great Early Access jump on the horizon, I was curious if anyone had any ideas on what we can expect from Baldur's Gate 3 when it actually drops out of early access and becomes a complete game. I don't believe that any previous Larion games have taken off, which makes it strange that they have an official post on their page that was like "we LOVE what the community did with DOS2 modding, and we want to foster that with BG3."  

If I was a betting man, I'm gonna assume we'll get like two female two retextures and that will be it - but I'd love to be proven wrong. 

[DORODERE]

General modding certainly took off. Almost 400 mods on Nexus alone for early access and more on other sites as well. Adult modding for the game is there with multiple nude mods, some body shape changes, nude monsters etc. There's already a lot more out there than two female retextures. Obviously not as much as the other stuff but its all there. Will it go much further? Who knows.

 

There are relatively explicit sex scenes in the game already along with full nude and genital options in the full game. I'm not too sure what more there is to do with the tools available. I doubt a Sexlab type framework will happen but maybe some more scenes could be animated and added in the future.

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/154565-baldurs-gate-3-nude-mod/

Edited July 15, 2023 by DORODERE

[Machiavelique]

I loved BGI and BGII and I'd love to have the time to try this game out and learn how to mod it.

With imagination, you can always find a way to add new content, and I'd like to work on a recent game for once.

[RathAzu]

I'll have to see what the tools end up looking like - I figured out Stardew Valley modding, but that is piss-easy, so no great shake. But I'd love to write some stuff for this too if they actually support it. I'm not delusional, I don't think we'll see BG3 become the new Skyrim - but maybe on the level of adult modding that Stardew or Darkest Dungeon have, at least. 

[whateverdontcare]

14 hours ago, DORODERE said:

General modding certainly took off. Almost 400 mods on Nexus alone for early access and more on other sites as well. Adult modding for the game is there with multiple nude mods, some body shape changes, nude monsters etc. There's already a lot more out there than two female retextures. Obviously not as much as the other stuff but its all there. Will it go much further? Who knows.

 

There are relatively explicit sex scenes in the game already along with full nude and genital options in the full game. I'm not too sure what more there is to do with the tools available. I doubt a Sexlab type framework will happen but maybe some more scenes could be animated and added in the future.

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/154565-baldurs-gate-3-nude-mod/

Unfortunately most of the mods seem to be just using vanilla models. Like the nude monsters even. That naked goblin is just in the game files. Then a lot of the others are just "They added genitals to the files let's put them on"

[DORODERE]

12 hours ago, whateverdontcare said:

Unfortunately most of the mods seem to be just using vanilla models. Like the nude monsters even. That naked goblin is just in the game files. Then a lot of the others are just "They added genitals to the files let's put them on"

I'm not sure how that's unfortunate. We want nude mods and the devs are giving to us. They even added genitals in the full game. It's less work for modders to do. Someone did mod custom bodies though, so if the included ones aren't to someone's taste, there are options.

[Desiree42]

As someone already said they already genitals to the game for the full release. Based on some hinting in a video there may be at least 4 different pube options and an option for uncut and uncut penises

 

 https://kotaku.com/baldurs-gate-3-character-creator-races-genitals-options-1850653066

Edited July 20, 2023 by Desiree42

[ButtJutsu]

On 7/19/2023 at 1:51 PM, Desiree42 said:

As someone already said they already genitals to the game for the full release. Based on some hinting in a video there may be at least 4 different pube options and an option for uncut and uncut penises

 

 https://kotaku.com/baldurs-gate-3-character-creator-races-genitals-options-1850653066

american and unamerican penises

[Hlamster]

2 hours ago, wubbles said:

Will there be an active community here for it? are sex mods possible?

Expect for our staff time traveler. As soon as he returns from the future, we will inform you with all answers on your questions.

Really, dude, noone knows if unpacker will continue working or will it be some good development kit from devs.

[Desiree42]

22 hours ago, ButtJutsu said:

american and unamerican penises

Lol fair assessment

[Kathylady]

On 7/19/2023 at 7:51 PM, Desiree42 said:

As someone already said they already genitals to the game for the full release. Based on some hinting in a video there may be at least 4 different pube options and an option for uncut and uncut penises

 

 https://kotaku.com/baldurs-gate-3-character-creator-races-genitals-options-1850653066

Uncut = natural intact penis with foreskin. Cut = mutilated (circumcised by parents without consent of the baby).

Edited July 25, 2023 by Kathylady

[Spiritseer]

On 7/19/2023 at 5:51 PM, Desiree42 said:

As someone already said they already genitals to the game for the full release. Based on some hinting in a video there may be at least 4 different pube options and an option for uncut and uncut penises

 

 https://kotaku.com/baldurs-gate-3-character-creator-races-genitals-options-1850653066

 

I was the one that originally mentioned full-nudity is in the final release and available via a toggle in options, so no need for nude mods. Also to note is that the director Swen just recently (a few days ago) said they will be directly supporting the modding community post launch and that he's excited to give them tools that will help them succeed, which is already a huge leg up from what most developers offer and quite good news considering even for early access there seems to be a lot of interest in modding the game.

[Algene]

So it is finally releasing? I hope we get a lot of mods for this, the world is prime for debauchery, we just need some talented modders to make the frameworks and let the rest to the less talented or less committed.

 

12 hours ago, Kathylady said:

Uncut = natural intact penis with foreskin. Cut = mutilated (circumcised by parents without consent of the baby).

Being honest, why is that a normal thing in the US?, the one time I saw a circumcised penis I feel bad for the man, I can't imagine living with a cut penis, some friends say is for hygiene... just peel your foreskin back and clean, is not that hard.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Algene said:

Being honest, why is that a normal thing in the US?, the one time I saw a circumcised penis I feel bad for the man, I can't imagine living with a cut penis, some friends say is for hygiene... just peel your foreskin back and clean, is not that hard.

I suppose that is a better alternative than how ancient China did it with cutting off the dick and balls off civil servants. ?

[Spiritseer]

1 hour ago, Algene said:

 

Being honest, why is that a normal thing in the US?, the one time I saw a circumcised penis I feel bad for the man, I can't imagine living with a cut penis, some friends say is for hygiene... just peel your foreskin back and clean, is not that hard.

 

Social conditioning due to religion, no I'm not joking. Mr. Kellogs of the cereal fame was upset that boys discovered masturbation while cleaning themselves, so he lobbied and pushed really hard for circumcision and was one of the primary drivers behind it. The full story has a bit more nuance, but isn't especially complex or mindlblowing. Basically, there wasn't much resistance and hyper-religious america was cool with it while political america say no reason to not support the 'lobby' money. Doctors would then advise mothers to do the practice, and being uneducated, most would just shrug and let the doctors have their own way. It eventually became commonplace in the united states to the point where in the vast majority of hospitals consent for it is rolled into basic paperwork and they'll just snip it as a matter of fact unless you specifically protest, and sometimes even doctors will try to talk you into it if you refuse. Now, socially, most women are used to seeing circumcised pensis and think it's 'normal' so want it for their own kids.

 

It's kind of sad, really. There is no medical or scientific evidence that supports circumcision does anything useful outside of incredibly rare instances, the fact that it makes cleaning easier is a misinformed myth, that's like saying cutting your arm off makes it easier to clean because it's not there. On the contrary, there is a good chance for necrotic tissue or other complications and it also removes about a third of one of the most pleasurable portions of the penis (hence why Kellogs wanted it removed...).

 

What's even sadder is that it's an in and out, same-day, zero problems procedure a grown adult male can make for themselves if they truly want to be circumcised when they're old enough to make the choice for themselves, but you try telling braindead American mothers what to do with their children and they'll just do the opposite out of spite. What boggles my mind is that this process is effectively a mother, who doesn't have a penis, deciding to chop off a piece of their kid's dick for aesthetic purposes... if that's not insanity, I don't know what is. No mother should be deciding their son's dick looks 'prettier' a certain way, but they don't see the weirdness of that.

 

Unfortunately it's not something that's ever going to be contested so babies regularly continue to be circumcised in the US and everyone still thinks it's normal and that there's nothing wrong with it.

 

  

1 hour ago, Algene said:

So it is finally releasing? I hope we get a lot of mods for this, the world is prime for debauchery, we just need some talented modders to make the frameworks and let the rest to the less talented or less committed.

 

 

Yep, not this Thursday but Thursday of next week.

Edited July 26, 2023 by Spiritseer

[Algene]

2 hours ago, Spiritseer said:

 I'm dying to see what modders do with Armored Core on PC.

Girls strapped to the mechas with fucking machines? Biomechas with tentacles and ton of "decorations" of the female gender ? Or Most likely just massive dicks-canons and torpedo-tits, if AC ends up with a full sex framework I'm shaving my ass.

[Kathylady]

On 7/15/2023 at 12:18 PM, DORODERE said:

There are relatively explicit sex scenes in the game already along with full nude and genital options in the full game. I'm not too sure what more there is to do with the tools available. I doubt a Sexlab type framework will happen but maybe some more scenes could be animated and added in the future.

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/154565-baldurs-gate-3-nude-mod/

 

I hope those explicit scenes are not like the Witcher 3 where the camera is almost always above the crotch area or its covered by something.

Maybe modders can add a brothel to the main city if there isn't one yet.

Edited July 29, 2023 by Kathylady

[untestedpower]

4 hours ago, Kathylady said:

 

I hope those explicit scenes are not like the Witcher 3 where the camera is almost always above the crotch area or its covered by something.

Maybe modders can add a brothel to the main city if there isn't one yet.

Here's an example of one in early access. I basically cut around the bugs because at the time the animations simply weren't done. Even this is probably waaay rougher than the final product will be (probably didn't help that I was playing a halfling and the animations weren't really ready for that lol). But if it's indicative of the type of scenes we'll get in the final version I'm pretty hopeful.

Edited July 29, 2023 by untestedpower

[Kathylady]

5 hours ago, untestedpower said:

Here's an example of one in early access. I basically cut around the bugs because at the time the animations simply weren't done. Even this is probably waaay rougher than the final product will be (probably didn't help that I was playing a halfling and the animations weren't really ready for that lol). But if it's indicative of the type of scenes we'll get in the final version I'm pretty hopeful.

 

 

 

Does this cinematic show the crotch area though?

[Demuth1995]

On 7/29/2023 at 8:26 PM, untestedpower said:

Here's an example of one in early access. I basically cut around the bugs because at the time the animations simply weren't done. Even this is probably waaay rougher than the final product will be (probably didn't help that I was playing a halfling and the animations weren't really ready for that lol). But if it's indicative of the type of scenes we'll get in the final version I'm pretty hopeful.

 

Hows is this going atm? Im pretty sure its gonna be hard adding the hard penis to the scenes too as there im sure there is not currently animation or template for a hard penis yet. 

[espguy]

uso how easy is to mod the game? I may try it if its not too hard.

[AlexandrVol]

As far as I know the game is very easy to modify, by the way, you can try to buy Baldur's Gate 3 and mod the steam version

[BPMidnight]

Depends on what you are trying to do with the game, but over-all I wouldn't say it is easy yet. The file structure's distribution is a bit haphazard and hasn't been sufficiently mapped yet. To give an idea of how tedious it is to mod certain things, I'll share what I've been doing with changing the race of Lae'zel (who wants to sleep with the Grinch's sister).

1. Created mod folder (xD)

2. Unpacked Gustav.pak (I went through every pak's files, took over 2 hours, that dealt with Origin character's RaceUUID)

3. Copied the Public\Gustav\Origins\Origins.lsx, Public\GustavDev\Origins\Origins.lsx, and Mods\GustavDev\Story\PartyEditor\Level12_Laezel.lsx. I also copied the RootTemplate lsx files for Lae'zel in case I have to edit those later. The RootTemplate files are a pain to sift through.

4. Changed the RaceUUID and SubRaceUUID making her into crazy Azmo. Tiefling who thinks she's a Githyanki

5. Converted to a .pak and uploaded using the mod mananger

 

Sorry if I accidentally left anything out, need to go through my files, but to do those five steps took me hours of going through Larian's mess. Now people can do it in minutes, hence my post.