Advice about making custom bckgrounds

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There's some guide about how to make custom backgrounds? I want to create a Coast like serie of backgrounds for the cove and maybe expand on other maps as well (Outside forest of the ruins, Lone Road for the weald, Wicked Laboratories for the warrens, etc)

[Professor Brofessor]

To begin with, the game files can be found by going into your steam library, right clicking Darkest dungeon, clicking on "Properties", "Local files" and then "Browse local files".

From there clicking on the folder "Dungeons" will take you to the files of all the games areas which hold all the art used in said areas, for example the ruins https://imgur.com/a/tB9Ed7p

To add a new background simply place the image you want to use into the area file and name it as shown, (dungeon name).room_wall.(custom name) or just "weald.room_wall.shroomland" for example. Hallway backgrounds use a number rather then a custom name.


All the background images must be png files for the game to use them.

Hallway background images must be size 720x720 and room backgrounds size 1920x720


In terms of advice I recommend that the borrders of your backgrounds be darkened so they can blend with the black outside of the image giving it a less blocky appearance.

For more information here is the official modding guide.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=819597757

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Thank you!

[Nova]

Thank you