Questions & Answers About modding

Q. "Can anyone mod?"
A. YES!, There are a bunch of awesome tutorials, and programs to go with them
Rez Edit tutorial - http://www.mpgh.net/forum/210-combat...-tutorial.html
Rez files Explained - http://www.mpgh.net/forum/210-combat...y-control.html

Q. "How do i Edit a texture?"
A. Photoshop is the best program to edit a texture in, paint, gimp and paint.net can also be used
Photoshop Tutorial - http://www.mpgh.net/forum/211-combat...photoshop.html
Non Photoshop tutorial - http://www.mpgh.net/forum/211-combat...oshoppers.html

Q. "Can i swap a weapon for another weapon by modding?"
A. YES!, its called cross modding, here is a Great tutorial for it - http://www.mpgh.net/forum/211-combat...-crossmod.html

Q. "Is it possible to change the damage, recoil, fire rate?"
A. NO!, although Rate of Fire appears to change, in my opinion, it does nothing, just wastes more ammo, but damage and recoil CAN NOT be changed, This is because a Model file does not contain the necessary information with it to change the attributes, To be able to successfully change any weapon stats, Attributes.rez would need to be extracted, then the text filed contained within the .rez would need to be cracked/decoded, until then, officially changing any weapon stat is impossible

Q. "Can we make the gun shoot different projectiles?"
A. NO!, Refer to the answer above

Q. "Can we put Ghille camo on any gun?"
A. NO! The ghille camo is coded to the Artic Wolf, even if u switch the artic wolf model files onto the normal L96A1, the Ghille Texture will not follow, because, you have turned an Artic Wolf into a normal L96A1, and the texture was never coded for it, the code for the textures are also in Attributes.rez

Q. "Can u change the player speed and hit boxes?"
A. NO!, this is also located in Attributes.rez, Switching the player model files will have NO EFFECT it will only give u the look of the model, but NO STAT CHANGE

Q. "Can other people see our mods?"
A. NO! Mods are client sided, therefor YOU are the ONLY ONE who see it
F. Server Side = Only the host of the server can control information going in and out of the server
Client Side = Any one who has downloaded/purchased a game can Mod weapon skins/etc for there entertainment, takes no effect to other people on the server

Q. "can i get banned for using mods?"
A. Its a possibility, but i have never heard of anyone get banned for using mods, corndogs super knife may be the only mod that COULD get you banned

Q. "Can mods get detected/patched?"
A. Technically they get patched with every update, but its as easy as re injecting them and your good to go, so they dont really get patched

Q. "Do all mods change size?"
A. NO!, not all of them do, its a random occurrence that they change size

Q. "What are the .dat files and can i edit them?"
A. NO! you can not edit the .dat files, these files are the map them selvs, not the texture, but the actual map, if we could edit this, it would be possible to make secret platforms that only you could see/use