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Setting up Unreal Engine

Installing Unreal Engine 4.27.2​

Voices of the Void was built on Unreal Engine 4.27.2, so in order to create mods, you will need to install it using the Epic Games Launcher. Make sure you choose to install 4.27.2, but any 4.27.X version is likely to work just as well.

Be advised that installing the Engine will require around 40-45 gigabytes of storage space.

After installing Unreal Engine, click Launch.

Preparing the Mod Project​

After launching Unreal Engine, you want to create a new project. You'll be greeted by a "Select or Create New Project" window, where you want to select "Games", and click next.

Select Blank, and then Copy the settings you see in the following image:

Let Unreal Engine create your project, then close out so you can install VictoryBPLibrary.

Configuring editor and project settings​

We will need to change a couple settings to setup our project for modding.

Inside your project, click "edit" on the menu bar and open both the "Editor Preferences" and "Project Settings" menu.

Editor Preferences​

Enable the setting "Allow ChunkID Assignments"

Project Settings​

Enable the setting "Generate Chunks"
Disable the setting "Share Material Shader Code"

Installing VictoryBPLibrary​

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Make sure your Unreal Engine project is closed while making these changes.

VictoryBPLibrary is a plugin that provides over a hundred useful different nodes to the blueprint editor, and it is used by many modders and the developers of VotV due to its utility, so it is heavily recommended.

You can chose to install the plugin to a single project, or have it installed globally so that it becomes available in every project you create.

First, download the VictoryPlugin27.zip from here.

You'll want to extract the ZIP file to VotV/Plugins/VictoryBPLibrary

📁 VotV
    📄 VotV.uproject
    📁 Plugins *
        📁 VictoryBPLibrary *
            📄 Zip Contents Go Here...
    📁 Config
    📁 Content

* - Make This Folder Yourself

Afterwards, open your project file in Unreal Engine, and Enable Victory Plugin.

Use the following image as a guide: