Adding dependencies to a UGC won't actually combine them in most cases. Depending on the type of addition, the process can actually be very detailed to intertwine two content packs. Even *If* you could get them to combine, the newly modified UGC would need to reference the changes from the newly added content before it would show up. There are lots of aspects that would have to be looked at. Modes, items, abilities, store inventories, conflicts in naming conventions, file structures, and file formats immediately jump to mind all as massive roadblocks.

Trying to modify someone else's content pack is probably more difficult than trying to generate your own story. It *can* be done, but you'll need an extremely high familiarity with the editor toolset, and a pretty intimate knowledge of both content packs you're attempting to combine to make it feasible.

IMHO, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. You're better off leaving a published pack alone. You're highly unlikely to get help from the creator (Cirion in this case) for how to modify the 1000 hours worth of free labor they put into creating their story to combine it with someone else's work. As a creator myself, I've repeatedly turned down requests to assist in these sorts of attempted modifications.

Is it possible, yes. Is it copy and paste... No.

Oprindeligt skrevet af DaveOfDeath:

Adding dependencies to a UGC won't actually combine them in most cases. Depending on the type of addition, the process can actually be very detailed to intertwine two content packs. Even *If* you could get them to combine, the newly modified UGC would need to reference the changes from the newly added content before it would show up. There are lots of aspects that would have to be looked at. Modes, items, abilities, store inventories, conflicts in naming conventions, file structures, and file formats immediately jump to mind all as massive roadblocks.

Trying to modify someone else's content pack is probably more difficult than trying to generate your own story. It *can* be done, but you'll need an extremely high familiarity with the editor toolset, and a pretty intimate knowledge of both content packs you're attempting to combine to make it feasible.

IMHO, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. You're better off leaving a published pack alone. You're highly unlikely to get help from the creator (Cirion in this case) for how to modify the 1000 hours worth of free labor they put into creating their story to combine it with someone else's work. As a creator myself, I've repeatedly turned down requests to assist in these sorts of attempted modifications.

Is it possible, yes. Is it copy and paste... No.

Ahh, shame. I thought it'd be possible to change the core mechanics and then have it apply to any custom campaign. Tired of my spirit summoner spending hundreds of nuyen just to put more enemies on the board :c
thanks for the answer bud

Core files can be modded and some UGCs will respond to them. If the UGC has it's own versions of those same files it'll overwrite the core ones.

It gets quite tricky.