Modding is FINALLY here for AoE4!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- Mods are finally here for Age of Empires 4, as the developers released a Beta version of the Essence Editor (or Content Editor) through the Public Preview. There are tons of features that this allows us to tap into - let's find out!
- Official Mod Instructions: support.ageofempires.com/hc/e...
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#AgeofEmpires4 #Mods #ContentEditor
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Modding Fundamentals
0:52 - Crafted Maps
1:35 - Generated Maps
2:23 - Tuning Packs
2:54 - Game Modes
3:14 - In-Game UI for Mods
4:50 - Mod Manager
5:35 - Publishing Mods
5:49 - Lack of Scenario Editor
6:45 - Applicability of Mods In-Game
7:38 - Capability of Content Editor
7:59 - Conclusion - เกม
I'm already seeing some great first-try mods just days after the release of the Essence Editor tool the developers released with the Public Preview! Stay tuned for the Icon project that I'll start soon to revamp in-game icons to being our journey of improving the game. Let me know if you'd like to help out in any way once the Spring Patch comes out - happy to collaborate and showcase people's work to improve AoE4!
How do I add picture on my mode?
Couldnt find anything about it in the tutorial and the website
@@nguyenphuvinh7064 I am doing and have done reskins and focusing on it 100%, they are available in PUP.
cant wait to try it out :D although Its probable I will go back to the simplicity of icons for multiplayer, it may be neat to have the new nice icons for campaigns^^
@@aslof1069 Your mod folder contains mod.png, which is the image game will use once you build your mod
@@woprok-1996 and how do I add picture in it? It seem like not working for me.
Hello! Author of the "supermans" mod here. I was just messing around and the mod is complete trash, I even forgot what I changed haha. But if you want to test a mod with friends, you must publish it, which is why there is so much junk in the mod store.
In general for developing code or mods, you want to have a very fast and easy "feedback loop" (ideally one click, less than 5 second) to test something. This is not the case with the current modding tool, as you need to build the mod, copy the mod folder over, start aoe, then start a match, which takes minutes. Additionally, when you want to test with friends, publishing takes unreasonable amounts of time (minutes), and there is no "publish unlisted" option. I'm used to sweet development tools like Visual Studio Code etc, so the modding tools for Aoe4 seem really clunky unfortunately, and I won't be doing any modding. Nonetheless, hats off to anyone who has enough patience and willpower to make some great mods!
asdfasfasfd :)
ah like the good old wc3 mapeditor. still the most easy and deep tool there was
No worries mate, I wasn't accusing you. :) I'm well aware that people are testing how this whole thing works, and there's going to be a lot of leftover junk in the store. I even have a test mod of my own there.
The argument was just to have a filter to get rid of all of our non-serious mods somehow. Cheers. :)
This editor is way more powerful than the aoe2 editor
More powerful, less accessible. We'll definitely need a simplified Scenario Editor in-game to allow for casual players to goof around in. The tool is too hardcore for the average player now. :)
@@AgeofNoob Although that would be nice, it might not be feasible.
@@bluzz4069 Why not? It's been a part of AoE games since literally 1997. :D I'm sure they can make it happen at some point
@@AgeofNoob I think as time goes by and people make mods. It will be easier for other to learn how to use the editor by using the ingame mod download menu and learning from others. I can already see some mod maps that are specifically made to teach others how to use the editor. I definitely take your point though.
@@AgeofNoob well, the engine is different. Dunno how complex it will be to implement
I really can't wait for the Scenario Editor
Or a more simplified version of this tool.
Most of my thousands of hours on Aoe2 and Mythology was making and playing Scenarios made by the community. I really can't wait for someone's RPG mod for AoE4
oh god. This is NOT the Scenario Editor, right? I was so afraid. It looks sooo lame compared to good old scenario editors in Aoe3/ Aom / Aoe2(?). Programming little scenarios and editing maps was so easy there, and here is seems to be you have to be a professional programmer to do the same stuff. Duh.
Gotta wait for the editor to make my own maps and game modes.
Same here. I absolutely loved making huge city maps in AoE2. I really hope they make it more easier in the future... right now I'm stuck with having my screen grey-scaled with seemingly no way to change it, so I haven't really gotten to try it out. I'm sure they will make it more accessible in the future since it is in beta.
I just started doing a tutorial series on it to make it more accessible, if you're keen to check it out 🙂
So far the first steps are actually easy enough to get started!
It pains me too say this, because I was enthusiastic about the scenario editor for Age of Empires IV as well, but this is the best it's going to get. I have worked with the essence engine before, creating scenarios for Company of Heroes one and two. Relic, while they're great at making RTS games, they aren't great at making their tools accessible and easy to use. If you want you get into modding for the essence engine, they make you learn SCAR (Scripting at relic) which is essentially a lightly modified version of LUA. Fundamentally, it's not hard to learn but I can absolutely understand why people would be intimidated by it. Not only that, the Age of Empires series is renowned for having easy to use modding tools that don't require you to be a programmer AT ALL to make some pretty advanced scenarios and missions. But, knowing Relic and the things they've done in the past regarding modding and UGC (User generated content) they will probably not care and make very little documentation on how to use their tools.
I could be wrong, of course. But, I am only talking from prior experience. If anyone has played Company of Heroes 2 before, you know exactly how much of a shit show the modding was for that game. I just hope I am wrong and that Relic will listen and release ingame scenario editing tools, so that people that don't care for programming/scripting can easily make scenarios.
Hey man, super happy to find your channel, I was really looking forward to the engine tools coming out but I ended up getting really sick this month and completely missed out. Your video was stellar and answered most of the questions I had already. Users will as always create a huge collection of extensions for the editor and soon we'll be playing around with custom meshes, AI, exporting all the assets, you name it. Really looking forward to what you do going ahead with the creator projects, I think you'll see people invent incredible things. (hook me up bro)
looks like Ill be back to age with the spring update... finally finishing the campaigns and then see what i will do with the mods :Despecially pop limit. great.
Seems great, looking forward to see what the community will churn out with the custom scenarios and stuffs.
I wonder how flexible it is with custom assets. What kind of custom assets that it allow? (the degree of flexibility varies from custom pictures for mod thumbnail to custom 3d asset)
This is awesome! It's not even just the Maps, mods etc that infuses soooooo much content into the game. But also videos such as your own content will finaly be divorced from testing on a random map with all the issues that entails. Looking forward to that!
Btw: I'm missing a comment function on those "mods" both as User and Modder this is essential for feedback, this is bad enough for games with external modloaders but with integrated modloaders making seperate webpages isn't at all practical.
Aoe2 had some great build order trainers, hoping well see a few similar mods.
I was waiting for this to come out, but yes it's so complex. I really want to create maps and share and play with my friends on them. There aren't even any from what I've seen guide videos to show how to make one from scratch
I like a lot the icons you show! love to see them in the game in the upcoming months with those mods
This should have been available since release.
Wow! Looks like in a mere 6 more months this game will be ready to be released!
Does anyone know when the scenario editor will be released? Was always my favorite part of the series
Reminds me so much of the Warcraft 3 scenario editor. It looks intimidating at first but anyone who enjoyed the aoe2 editor enough to put a lot of time into it will absolutely be able to handle this in time.
That's what exactly came into my mind too! :)
I haven't tried myself but can someone confirm, can you put more than 1 tuning pack a game? it looked like the drop down only selects one?
i know this is a bit of a random question, but does anyone know what the music that plays at 0:15 to 1:30 is called?
Hi! Do you know if it is very difficult to modify the units of the game to change the armor and weapons? Like messing with the model of the units, you know? I saw that there is a tool from Microsoft itself to modify Age 4 on Steam, is it very difficult to use this tool?
Can't wait for the juicy scenarios that people gonna start making
I think the icons were always fine, but I'm glad everyone will have options in the future! Also, as someone who scripted for other games, I can see many hours spent in that editor!
I'm looking for that english units pack.... can't find it is it still up?
Will this be applicable for campaigns?
Like population cap editor.
how to create a mod to play it on XBOX ? do you have to mod with a PC first ?
Updates have been very solid this year
I'm just dreaming awake, but imagine if these modding tools allowed things like WC3 game mods. That would be so much fun!
Does searching for a creator work? I.e. could you type "aoe official" in the search bar to find all the mods by this creator?
just checking back in on AoE 4 since free weekend before game release. I really miss having customization options (like with UI) and was hoping player mods would solve that as it did for me in AoE 2, doesnt look like anyone has made that kind of stuff yet
I notice that the editor still has a lot of left over cruft from coh, coh2, and warhammer. lots of lua funcs for unit cover and shot blocking.
Yes, and the ships' front armor bug at release was a by product of that :D
haha thats why bombards feel like king tigers
is that the skyrim title sreen them in the back ground (:
I skimmed the video briefly and maybe missed it. Will it be possible to create RPG/XP systems?
Is it possible to add custom models and sounds, or can you only use the existing data and change the parameters? If so, what file formats are used?
I don't know enough to answer this question I'm afraid - but I'm positive that at the very least sounds could be altered. We'll see.
Closed captions say edge vampires 4 at the start, hilarious
finally, hope the editor lets you mod the size of the buildings
how to mod the icons, i really need to
"Craft Deez Nuts" 1:17 XD
Hey someone finally caught it :D
How tf do you zoom out so far ?
Is there a release date for the update?
How can i upload my map?
This looks exciting... IMO every game should just launch with a mod support...
Can't wait for the next update👌
The game looks fun, the main reason for me not playing ist the fresh price tag and my slow PC, but I gotta say one thing that I didn't like from the get-go are the unit colours and some models like the way too large lances for knights. The siege also seemed a bit oversized. Nice to see you can change these things to your liking now.
One of the main mods i want is a mod that makes the camera further away for single player gameplay.
Really want a sc2 style UI for all game modes ( ranked and unranked and so forth )
I'd love to create custom units, clothing, weapons and environmental effects such as modded tree looks, etc.
Bruh how do I even lay down terrain and mountains and water?
Tassadar: Here comes the Gantrithor!
Is it just me or does the content editor look a lot like Visual Studio?
I wonder, do mods works online ? At least in private groups as long as everyone got the mod
Absolutely. In custom lobbies. However, not in Matchmaking.
Bruh I can't even delete units, or edit in-game buttons / remove them....
Is there a scenario editor already? Haven't touched this game since the first week.
No Scenario Editor unfortunately, but an external Content Editor. It's more powerful, but less accessible.
Man i still can't edit the resources requirement on buildings 😅. I want to edit a water resource because unit in game don't use it 😁
Why the heck do we have "offical" Mods and this mods are not somethnk that is implemented into the game directly?
I cant wait to change the looks of building and closs of cracters
Oh yeah, hoping for a more curated fan mad maps
you can only use one mod at a time....what year is this
I'd love an update on this. I wonder where the modding scene in aoe4 is after 11 months
yeah!!!
Sad that there's not really any option to mod the SFX.
Unfortunately, a year after the release of this game, they did not change the icons and symbols in the game. Even in the campaigns, we did not recognize the faces of the campaign leaders only (name).
I Hope that now more players come to AoE4
Spring Update should spark things up, and the community's mods should feed tons of content shortly thereafter hopefully!
@@AgeofNoob can't wait!!
can editor change mini map to the center ?
We're not sure about UI overhauls just yet. Will update once we know more. :)
Hey Age of Noob. When are you going to introduce graphical enhancement for the game?
YES
Collosseum?
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Is there anyway yet to create a custom culture or army?
If someone can make a mod that gives me more realistic units scaling and some damn blood I would actually go try this game again.
Waiting for Age of Legends / League of Empires mod!
After I tried the beta I can’t go back to the original game won’t launch
If Relic opens up full-on conversion mod status, and workshop support, I'll gladly migrate from AoM modding, to AoE IV modding. Here's hoping we actually get some actual intuitive modding content.
there should be one that makes it so any stone buildings are WAY harder to destroy, especially walls
Is it possible that people can make buildings/unit skins with this like in aoe2?
Skins can definitely be changed - making them from scratch is something we'll find out.
@@AgeofNoob thats sounds very interesting! Also, ur vids are amazing keep it up bro! :)
@@bakli322 Than kyou :)
I really hope for a possibility to edit unit textures and especially the User Interface, it could look so much more well done. Also the pretty useless Coat of Arms you can create for yourself has the worst design possibilites I have ever seen. Starting alone with the color choosing options...
This is what I've been waiting for such a long time but does it cover custom campaign?
Technically, Crafted Maps can be Custom Campaigns. Heck, the Game Mode extension is even more powerful. So in theory yes, but definitely not as easy to make as you can in the Scenario Editor. It's more powerful, but less accessible.
@@AgeofNoob a bit worrying tbh, because most of what made AOEII playable or the HD version was the multiple campaigns you could download once you had your fun with the vanilla ones!
Using stronghold music while casting age of Empires.. interesting :D
I hope someone makes a lord of the rings mod or fantasy based mod with different factions and allow it to be multiplayer or single player
I like your video style and explanations. Could you also make AOE2 content? thanks!
WE have SOTL for that
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If we buy it from a store that is not steam do we get mods?
did u find out?
@@dazerrazer3018 did u find out if he found out?
@@Positive-Vibes-77 you get mods yes.
Oh, please do that icon pack, it will be a complete game changer. There's no way to change the game music with mods currently right?
I'd like to believe that sounds and music are some of the easier things to change. So, although I can't confirm, I think it's very likely we'll figure it out once the patch is live. :)
@@AgeofNoob Awesome, hope it is. Will be looking close into that once it's released
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I really hope someone makes a mod where the unit damage taken and given is very much lowered, the battles have zero tactical skill because units die in seconds ! I would much prefer units take a ton of damage so the battles last soooo much longer, maybe much higher hit points or lowered attack points, so when units engage the fights go on and on and you can actually use tactics….. right now it’s just swarms and huge unit losses .
Mods stored where? Steam Workshops or Microsoft servers? Is it possible to upload them elsewhere? I dont trust Microsoft for mod preservation in the future
MS Servers, though local folders are stored for the mods.
I would definitely play this game more if the map creation and the rest of the campaigns were available. I don't care for getting half finished games for full price.
Oh thank god its in Lua
Big thanks to that Redditor who asked Bill Gates in an AMA to make AoE4!
I Like mods🥰
This looks promising. :)
Is there still no way to change player colours? Playing always as blue gets tiresome after a while. Especially being blue as England. :)
Colors will come in July :)
@@AgeofNoob That is excellent news then. Thank you very much :)
I like the aoe4 icons.
Custom Hotkeys there yet?
Around July :)
@@AgeofNoob sigh.. more months of refusing to play aoe4 without them^^
I can't wait for a Lord of the rings mod
Can you use mods online to play with your friends and not get banned?
You can't add mods on Matchmaking - you can in Custom Lobbies. However, your mods will have to be installed and applied to all other players to begin the game.
@@AgeofNoob nice!!! Didn't know that. Thanks! Will you get banned????
@@nzieli6486 Mate it's a part of the game, why would you get banned? :D
@@AgeofNoob idk!! I'm just concerned lol. Where do you download the mods at?
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What I realy want is a BLOOD MOD !
This will single handedly make AOE4 worthwhile. The lack of scenarios and modding was a huge deal breaker for me.
Also, yes please, fix those awful icons. I simply do not understand why AOE4 and modern total wars use those cartoony arcady gamey looks for them.
Cant wait for japanese faction hell yeah!
Want men at arms with pole weapons.