BG3 Content Workflow Tutorial (Guide)

Tutorial Chapters

1.       Model structure.

Brief description of models, skeletons, textures in Baldur’s Gate 3.

2.       Tool sharpening.

Links and settings of the main tools used to change models, textures, etc. File conversion algorithms.

3.       Animations and race skeleton.

Working with skeletons in models and simple animations.

4.       Face and hairstyle edits.

Correct changes to existing character face models and hairstyles.

5.       Hair tools.

Editing hair models for Baldur's Gate 3.

6.       Outfit tools.

Techniques for working with models, editing meshes and textures for Baldur's Gate 3. Creating a simple mod.

Foreword

Good day, dear players and modders. I've been playing various games with mods for over a decade, which has left a certain imprint on the enjoyment I get from games. Some people like to collect achievements by completing the game in ways provided by the developer, while others, on the contrary, do everything their own way. Some people try to set a speedrunning records, while others do it on the highest possible difficulty. Both of them spend days and nights in the game. However, many modders like me get great pleasure from the fact that they change their game to their own taste. They also spend days and nights, but not only, and not so much in the game itself. It really is a very unusual feeling when you find or create content outside of the game. Forging something from meshes and textures, animations and scripts by your own hands, putting it together, bringing it to life on the screen, making it part of the story is much more pleasant than simply ordering an item from an NPC blacksmith or taking it from a dragon.

In the corresponding sections of different games at Nexus you can find an amazing variety of mods: from simple rings to entire cities and countries, from HD models of tomatoes to real flying ships. Many thousands of mods. Maybe in the future something similar will happen with Baldur’s Gate 3.

In this tutorial I tried to describe some methods, how you can make or edit models for Baldur’s Gate 3 and what tools you will need for this.