Modding Offline Games okay with Steam?

[Fenyx]

Hi,

Is it okay with steam when i want to mod some offline games like for example Resident Evil, Tomb Raider or Half Life? I mean when i want to add some extra fan content like skins, models, maps etc. to the games which are NOT from Steam Workshop. Sorry for that (maybe) stupid question, but i dont want to get banned because of that.

Thanks for your answers ;)

bye FriDay

[Morbo]

That should be fine. I imagine some 3rd party DRM might get upset though.

[Fenyx]

What do you mean with "3rd party DRM"? You mean DRM system which are not from valve but from some other publishers/developers like eq. Square Enix, Capcom?

[Morbo]

I do. While not a game I play through Steam, I added a couple of mods to a game which featured Games For Windows Live, which went a little bit weird (a couple of achievements popped for no good reason, and online was pretty much broken). Nothing bad happened afterwards, but I just made sure I set that to Offline mode when using mods in that game after that.

The vast majority of the time when I've added mods to a game though, I've had no problems what so ever.

[Fenyx]

Okay but in that case i dont risk my steam account after all isn´t it? Besides: i dont think that this kind of 3rd Party DRM is added in the games i want to mod..so i think i´ll be cool with that.

[Morbo]

Sounds like you're good to go then.
Half-Life is massive with modders, don't forget that Counter Strike started off as an unofficial Half-Life mod.

[ReBoot]

Modding is totally cool. Just be careful with VAC-protected games and executable code files. But that doesn't matter offline.

[Fenyx]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ReBoot:

Modding is totally cool. Just be careful with VAC-protected games and executable code files. But that doesn't matter offline.

thanks for your answer ReBoot.
I want to add some custom models to Resident Evil 6. Its just Leon and Ada in Resident Evil 2 Style. Resident Evil 6 itself is protected by VAC, but i´ll never going to play the game online or something. I think since i only play singleplayer and just some model files and textures need to be replaced, it should be no problem with steam isn´t it?

Sorry for all that stupid questions ;)
But i´ve never done this before on steam games, and i thought i ask the community before i do something wrong ;) I just dont want to get banned ;)
I think modding and customizing your games is it what makes PC games so unique and totaly different from console games...thats why i´m so glad that i´m a PC gamer ;)

[ReBoot]

Changing game assets, models and so on, is safe. No problem even online.