How do I make mods?
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I've never made any mods for games before, so I thought I'd start with Powder Toy. I just have no idea how to make the mods... If anyone can help or provide any tips on how to make mods, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for taking the time to help.
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Generally you can either start with LUA (The easy way), or C++ (The hard way)
C++ happens to have a LOT more possibilitys, and is faster as C++ based mods are directly compiled into the game.
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You can either make a Lua script that TPT executes, which has multiple benefits:
+ Easier
+ Can be hot-loaded
+ Portable across TPT versions
+ Portable across different TPT mods
Or, you can go straight to the TPT source code in C++ and customize it to your liking, which has some benefits:
+ Much faster
+ Much more powerful (access to more TPT subsystems)
But, as you create one of those - you have to keep it up to date with TPT, and distribute the binary TPT executable separately.
