How to make mods

[Rosetta Stoned]

I want to dive into the art of making mods, however, I have no idea where to start. I have never had any experience with creating mods for any game, so I will be starting from scratch. And how would one post a mod on the Workshop here?

[AyMazingATS]

Depends what you want to make actually.

This page is worth the read: https://modding.scssoft.com/wiki/Main_Page

[Rosetta Stoned]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

Depends what you want to make actually.

This page is worth the read: https://modding.scssoft.com/wiki/Main_Page

I want to start with audio, and maybe move to trucks later on when I have more experience. I also want to make real company skins for trailers and maybe some traffic models.

[AyMazingATS]

As the game now uses FMOD there is a discussion thread dedicated to that on the SCS forums.

https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=178&t=281124

[Underscore_101_3]

I'd say skins are the easiest way to start, sounds are a good way too, but imho a bit more complicated, but both are good to get a feeling of how modding for SCS games works.
For skins i recommend that you try it the manual way and not use apps like Mods Studio, or if you must, use the old version of that.
The new version adds files you don't need and just makes things confusing and complicated.

Truck mods and 3d modelling use some of the same principles, but are way more complicated and not only take a long time to master, just making them is also a very time consuming past time.
But you could start with accessories and stuff like a bull bar (as in the SCS tutorial) and work your way up from there.

I don't remember how i got to upload mods to Steam, i recall something about needing to give my tax info and other stuff, to this day i'm not sure if that was actually needed, but for sure you need the SCS Uploader that you can find on Steam.

[Doddsy86]

OK cool thank you