Tuning packs allow you to create an alternate set of unit stats that overwrite the standard statistics within Age of Empires IV.
The elements you can change with tuning packs include such things as unit toughness, attack damage, speed, build time, resource cost, and even the fundamental way they make attacks.
If you download the AoEIV Beta through the Steam Client you can access it by going to the AOEIV Steam folder (\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Age of Empires IV) and launching “EssenceEditor.exe”
Afaik it will be added as “Tool” in the Steam Client later on.
Am I missing something here? To me, content is not the same thing as a mod. A content editor is not a modding tool. Is this really the modding tool?
Can this be used to create equivalent mods to those in AoE 2 DE, such as small trees? Can it be used to replace the icons in the actions panel with the AoE 2 DE icons?
Check out the video to see what the tool is capable of.
The tool looks complex enough to allow experienced modders to create a lot of things. But only a modder would be able to say for sure.
decent, sad they are only giving access to the age insiders, I’ve stopped playing the game and doing mods was the only thing I was gonna come back for, sadly I wont get access, so seems I am not coming back, not even the patches have anything exciting in them.
bruh you can play it haha , even if you are not an insider you just need to activate the beta and then go to SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Age of Empires IV) and launch “EssenceEditor.exe”
There is an AoE4 Modding Discord: AoE4 Modding
In that community they were literally debugging and pulling the game apart before these modding tools were available. Everyone there seems rather excited now.
Yesterday’s discussion they were talking about extending the possibilities with lua/scar scripts. It also looks like they are coming up with a way to write in TypeScript to compile to Lua (the script language the game uses) https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
In this screenshot below, they are talking about a specific file and whether it’s digitally signed to prevent modifying the game in certain areas. They were saying that they tried it a month ago and it didn’t work, where now it seems that the game will run anything you throw at it. Hopefully that sticks.