modding help

i want to know the basics JUST THE BASICS and until when i have another question i will return oh what i want to make WEEL SOME MoThErFuCkIn WEAPONS, ARMOR, CONPANIONS, HAIRSTYLES, AAARMOR SLOOTS what i want in this specific thread exaamples and babysitting me like im 5 on making my first...

Just decided to try and make a simple mod for fallout 2 because I finished it not too long ago. So I downloaded all the stuff blah blah blah, anyway, the point is I'm trying to make some dialogue for my mod. Everything seems fine, except for one error that's preventing me from compiling my...

Is there a way to make ammo effects apply in a certain order? I'd like to make system of damage threshold piercing and zero damage bleedthrough with DT (.44 Magnum completely ignores low tier armor, but may be negated completely by, for example, power armor). I thought about something like...

Hello NMA. I would like to present you my recently started project - Fallout 2 Modding Guide. My goal is to gather every knowledge ever released about Fallout 2 modding at one place. The guide is still a draft and far away from being complete. I think it will always be work in progress...

So I'm making (have made, really) a mod for the Mauser to make it less of a useless collector's item, and everything's going swimmingly - except for the part where I turned it into a whole other gun, which necessitates editing the description in the pro_item.msg file. I know the easy way to...

Hey, I'm trying to figure out how to make scripts and such in Fallout 2. I've got very little experience with modding, but I'd like to give it a shot. Anyways, I followed this tutorial from Quantum Apprentice on YouTube, and I followed his exact instructions, but I keep getting the error message...

The TRAIT.MSG file references a file called "trait.c", which I assume is where the actual trait values are. The only problem is: I have no idea how to access the trait.c file... Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

As title says, new to fallout classic modding and I wondering if there were any recommendations. I really would like to play the old fallout games now that Frontier has been a let down and super boring. Never really gave the classic ones a chance but nows a good a time as ever.