Project Description

This mod imports the Thanator class from Sinclair's Library to Baldur's Gate 3. 

Technical Details

The mod was built for the Divinity Engine, Larian's proprietary game engine, using community tools like the BG3 Modders Multitool from ShinyHobo, visual tools like Stable Diffusion with Lora models and Photopea, as well as some good old fashion reverse engineering. 

Design Challenges

Other than figuring out Larian's way of doing things to create an effective mode, the class also had to be adapted design wise to better match the needs, the balance and the limitations of the new media. Some abilities we're modified, others were replaced and some numbers were changed to ensure playing with the mod feels as close to playing 1st party content.

Testing

Having no official tools from Larian, and no way to simulate runtime through a game engine, the entirety of the debugging and game testing was done from the game itself, making it sometimes tedious. But it was important to test for unexpected senarios, unintended interractions, and more importantly, make sure the game would not crash at any moment due to the mod, or the mods interaction with other mods.

*The help of the modding community on Discord was crucial to help follow the community guidelines and avoid mod conflicts.