How does modding exactly work?

Development Modding
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Hello everyone, so I see this subforum exists now, I would like to ask how exactly making a game moddable works, what I mean is, how do we build a editor specific to our game that can compile assets than then the game will load?, the situation would be to not require to redistribute the game’s source code/Bps.

How does UT implement this? I know the editor has buttons to compile .pak files that then can be run in the game, how does this exaclty work?

cheers.

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This seems to be very unclear at the movement. Think EPIC is working on some documentation though.

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Tom Looman, has a small tutorial and a sample project so you can see how it can work. I found for me personally, was after I downloaded his sample. I created a game using FPS template and then followed his tutorial.