User:Mr Oofity/tips

=Mod tips= 1: set up everything(not sure if this works for any other engine, but after I set up KE the others didn’t need to be set up)

video for installing and setting up KE

Mod installation guide. Make sure to also read the installation guide

2: In Visual Code Community, download the add on that lets VSC read Haxe. This will make programming significantly easier as the code is actually formatted

3: Install another mods sources as references (DO NOT COPY/STEAL CODE OR ASSETS FROM OTHER MODS WITHOUT PERMISSION), especially for mechanics

4: When recompiling your mod, go to the export(make sure you are in export) and delete the folder containing what you just changed in the source folder(or just delete the whole asset folder in the export). For some reason FNF doesn’t replace anything when it compiles, so you have to get rid of the recently changed thing for it to change. (Thanks star for telling me this)

5: Always make a backup folder and back up things regularly

6: If you have any spaces in a song name, replace them with - in the file, and make it all lowercase (Example: Beloved Tomboyish Girl -> beloved-tomboyish-girl). Most engines can not read the spaces, and even if they can, they may update into not being able to. So better to be safe

7: Be sure you know what you are messing with when touching source code, so you don’t accidentally break the whole thing

8: Use control+f to find specific things within the code(such as finding damage in the playstate, you would type “health -=“ for the ctrl f menu.)

9: Look at each engine and see the upsides and downsides, and figure out what you want to use more(I suggest Psyche engine. Very easy to use, and user friendly. Even has custom notes and events)

10: Have fun! And ask for help if needed

11: Make sure you download the engines source for the engine rather than the normal engine. You can only do so much without the source, and to actually make a mod you will need to use the source.

That concludes some important basic tips.

Thank you for reading! And enjoy!

Oh yea bonus, (stolen) borrowed from Cval

If your art style deviates to far from the base game, perhaps make Gf and B in your artstyle instead, like Blue Ball incident did