How moddable is NMS?

[alikims]

When people here say it's moddable what do they mean exactly? What I can actually modify/change in the game?

[Dragon Crisis Core]

http://nomansskymods.com/ this might help you a ltitle bit its the current mods for the game. I only tested the skill mod cause i had to restart.

[Daemonjax]

We can unpack game's files and modify them... the textures, shaders, etc, files that contain values for global variables. There are mbin files that are important and aren't editable with a standard text editor, but people are working on reverse engineering them to edit them. Some mods already make some edits to mbin files.

It's not mod-centric like Skyrim or anything. It can maybe be made mod-friendly with some developer provided tools, though.

[cRush]

Client side mods only really. Remember that Hello Games runs the servers, so it's not like someone can mod in an alien base with attacking NPCs or something like that.

I mean they could I guess, but the experience would be purely client-side. Of course, this is a single player game now, despite what was said, so I guess that wouldn't matter too much.

Modding in AI and stuff might be tough client-side though...

[Daemonjax]

Nothing runs on the servers. I never play with internet access and everything works. Everything is handled client-side.

[cRush]

Originally posted by Daemonjax:

Nothing runs on the servers. I never play with internet access and everything works. Everything is handled client-side.

Right, so any mods are mainly going to be aesthetics. We will see what they provide as far as modding in gameplay, but I don't see how someone could really mod in anything with AI yet.

[alikims]

Originally posted by k.mitch.gh:

http://nomansskymods.com/ this might help you a ltitle bit its the current mods for the game. I only tested the skill mod cause i had to restart.

Thanks for the link, I actually hoped to replace mouse functionality, so you can actually click on everything in a normal way but I guess that would require changing the source code in some disassembler...

Not to mention making you rown interface...