How can i learn more advanced modding techniques?

[Alexx18]

Greetings to all, i wanted to know, how can i learn more complex modding? for example making custom objects, like enemies or importing custom textures for flats. Or how to make more complex FOFs and in general, how to mod properly, i've read through the SRB2 wiki, but it tends to be vague sometimes and doesn't really explain these things. I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction, Thanks to all in advance!

 

[Zipper]

The wiki is sadly just documentation, it's there to explain the exposed data to someone who already knows what to do. If you want to understand WHAT you need to do in order to accomplish something, try finding a mod that does that thing (or something similar) in SLADE, and deeply examining it.

"Oh, this Lua code iterates over ffloors, which means it's probably related to FOFs"

"This SOC file has a freeslot, and this is a long Thing definition under it, this is a map thing, which means it's a custom object"

"This pk3 has a Textures folder, so this must be where textures for the map go"

Mods were really made with back-and-forth chats in the IRC back in the old days, which probably doesn't translate well into Discord due to the sheer size of the community now, but understanding the workflow of other people by looking at what they made is always helpful.

The only exception is complex slopes. Those are black magic.

 

[Alexx18]

The wiki is sadly just documentation, it's there to explain the exposed data to someone who already knows what to do. If you want to understand WHAT you need to do in order to accomplish something, try finding a mod that does that thing (or something similar) in SLADE, and deeply examining it.

"Oh, this Lua code iterates over ffloors, which means it's probably related to FOFs"

"This SOC file has a freeslot, and this is a long Thing definition under it, this is a map thing, which means it's a custom object"

"This pk3 has a Textures folder, so this must be where textures for the map go"

Mods were really made with back-and-forth chats in the IRC back in the old days, which probably doesn't translate well into Discord due to the sheer size of the community now, but understanding the workflow of other people by looking at what they made is always helpful.

The only exception is complex slopes. Those are black magic.

Thanks for answering! Yes, i've been trying to do just that, but i still struggle to understand certain concepts. Still, thanks for the help!