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.

Installing to a Project

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:

Installing Globally

First, download the VictoryPlugin27.zip from here.

Find the location of your Unreal Engine installation, You'll want to extract the ZIP file to UE_4.27/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/VictoryBPLibrary. (If the Marketplace folder does not exist, create it.)

📁 Marketplace
    📁 VictoryBPLibrary *
        📄 VictoryBPLibrary.uplugin
        📁 Binaries
        📁 Intermediate
        📁 Resources
        📁 Source

* - Make This Folder Yourself

Now, open any project in Unreal Engine, and the Victory Plugin should be available in the plugins menu.

Additionally, if you want the plugin enabled by default in every project you create or use, you can open the VictoryBPLibrary.uplugin file in a text editor and add "EnabledByDefault": true,

For example:

    ...
    "CreatedByURL": "http://www.ue4code.com",
    "DocsURL": "http://www.ue4code.com",
    "MarketplaceURL": "http://www.ue4code.com",
    "SupportURL": "http://www.ue4code.com",
    "EngineVersion": "4.27.0",
    "CanContainContent": false,
    "Installed": true,
+   "EnabledByDefault": true,
    "Modules": [
    ...

Fixing Sounds

Playing sounds does not work out of the box. To fix this, open the folder your Unreal Engine project is in, open the Config folder, and open DefaultEngine.ini in a text editor. Scroll to the bottom of the file, and insert this text:

[/Script/WindowsTargetPlatform.WindowsTargetSettings]
MaxSampleRate=0.000000
HighSampleRate=0.000000
MedSampleRate=0.000000
LowSampleRate=0.000000
MinSampleRate=0.000000
CompressionQualityModifier=0.000000
AutoStreamingThreshold=0.000000