SideOp Companion - Create Custom Sideops

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SideOp Companion - SOC

SideOp Companion is a tool for creating custom sideops for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

A "Custom Sideop" is a playable, user-created side-mission which can be added to the game through TinManTex's Infinite Heaven mod. Creating custom sideops manually can be difficult, even for experienced MGSV mod authors. Without an deep understanding of the game's files, formats and limitations, the user can often find themselves lost and confused.

SideOp Companion is my attempt to automate and streamline the process of creating custom sideops. The application simplifies a great deal of the difficult, tedious work involved in creating a custom sideop. Even with minimal understanding of modding, users can create and test their own custom sideops with relative ease. SOC can even create sideops with greater detail than those found in the base game, without even touching the game files.

Guides

The full SOC guide and the source code can be found here on the GitHub Wiki. Refer to this guide if you have questions about SOC functionalities and limitations.

Also, here's my (outdated) video tutorial for creating custom sideops with SOC:

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Requirements

SideOp Companion requires . NET 8. 0 Runtime

Infinite Heaven is required in order to play Custom Sideops and to use the QuickMenu Preset.

FAQ

Q: What sorts of sideops can I make with SOC?

A: As of Version 8, The user is no longer limited to Extraction/Elimination sideops. While limitations still exist, the definition of success or failure can be broadly defined to anything that is tied to an event, like arriving/leaving a location, triggering an alert, capturing an outpost, etc.

Q: I have an elaborate vision for a sideop. Can SOC help me make it?

A: Yes! However, SOC ca