Thank you so much! Now that I can test the dang thing, I've got it mostly figured out.

Thankfully, I was right about a hero skin mod being the easiest mod to start with. The information you gave me was basically all the help I needed for this one. Now, while my friend gets to work on that, I can start thinking about a more programming oriented mod.

So, this is the fist game I have ever attempted to mod, so I'm sorry if I seem like a total goofus.

I live with an artist who want to draw skins for some of the classes. I've read over the Official modding guide a couple of times already but I'm stuck at the very beginning:

Things I have done:

-copied heroes/plague_doctor/ into DarkestDungeon/mods/
-ensured that I am looking at the correct plague doctor costume when trying to test

Thing I am trying to do:

-paste a small image over the face of plague doctor A in all anim png for testing
-figure out what is happening so I can give my artist what they need to go to town

Problem I am having:

-edits are not showing up in game
-no option to mod a save is showing for my mod

Things that may be going wrong:

-I'm just using windows 10 3d paint to paste the image over the old art.
-the image does go slightly out of the bounds of the original art.

The official guide said that I could copy darkest dungeon and run an executable in the 'nosteam' folder, but I can't find said folder.

Any help is appreciated, can't wait to get started in this community!