Modding Hub

Tutorials

If it's your first time making a mod, start here:

• Modding Intro
• Audino's Video Tutorials

Optional but highly recommended:

• Getting Started With Git

Graphics

• Modding Portraits and Sprites
• Modding Objects and VFX
• Modding Tilesets
• Modding Font

Audio

• Modding Music

Dungeon Generation

• Creating Dungeons by editing Tropical Path
• Creating Dungeons from Scratch
  • Using Themes
  • Using SpreadPlans
  • Creating Dungeon Shops
  • Creating Monster Houses
  • Creating Vaults
  • Creating Mid-Dungeon Boss Rooms
  • Creating Branching Dungeons
• Creating Dungeon Maps
• Custom Floor Generation Steps

Game Mechanics

• Creating Items
  • Creating TMs
• Creating Moves
• Creating Map Statuses (i.e. weather and field effects)
• Creating New Types
• Creating Terrain
• Creating New Pokémon

Ground Maps and Cutscenes

• Creating Ground Maps
• Creating Ground Map NPCs
• Custom Ground Item Actions

Scripting

• Services
• Making Custom Menus
  • Editing the Top Menu
  • Editing the Main Menu
• Converting C# classes to Lua
• Avoiding Desyncs in replays and quicksaves
• Basic Zone Scripts

Miscellaneous

• Manual Install
• Contributing Code to the engine

Documentation

• Dev Mode

Graphics

• PMD Sprite Format
• Sprite Tool Manual
• Mass Sprite Import (Advanced. Modders can skip this page.)

Audio

• Ogg Tags

Dungeon Generation

• Floor Generation Overview
• Zone Step Overview

Game Mechanics

• AI Overview
• Pokémon Spawn Features
• Move Ranges
• Map Statuses (weather, Electric Terrain, Trick Room, etc.)
• Terrain
  • Floor Darkness
• Statistics
• Status Conditions
• Recruitment
• Traps
• Moves
• Items
• Abilities
• Misc. game mechanics

Ground Maps and Cutscenes

• Text Tag Guide

Scripting

• Script Reference
  • Scripting Cheat Sheet
• Service Events
• Random Number Generators
• Data Structure Documentation
  • BattleContext
  • BattleData (Effects of moves, items, etc.)
  • DataManager (_DATA module)
  • IntrinsicData (Abilities)
  • ItemData (Items)
  • MapStatusData (Map Statuses/Weather)
  • MonsterData (Pokémon)
  • SkillData (Moves)
  • StatusData (Status conditions)
  • TileData (Traps et. al.)
• Modding Strings
• List of BattleEvents

Miscellaneous

• Controller Support
• C# Code Documentation links

Free-to-use Resources

Scripts

• SingleEvent Scripts (custom dungeon events)
• BattleEvent Scripts (custom moves/abilities/items etc.)
• Mission Generation Library by MistressNebula

Graphics

• PMD Cleaned Assets by Imbion for cleaned Explorers and Rescuers assets, including some tilesets. Credit should be either linked to the drive itself or to PMD Cleaned Assets.

Ground Map Props

• "New Neighborhood November" town assets by JaiFain
• Rescue Team-style house sprites by oulongtea

Pokémon Sprites

• SpriteCollab. Most of these are in PMDO already. If you use something that wasn't, you must credit the artist in your mod.
• NotSpriteCollab. Non-Pokémon sprites. You must credit the artist in your mod if you use these.

Music

• Rescue Team, Explorers, Gates to Infinity, and Zwei!! looped OGG files