I want to learn to Mod. Any suggestions on where to start?

[Aquos4]

Okay, so yeah, I heard that modding can be an easy (well, easy as it gets) way to get into making your own games, and I've had some ideas in my head for awhile that I want to make a reality. Does anyone know any books or something I could to learn the type of code I need to mod games? From the absurd amount of mods out there, I take it that Minecraft is one of the most easily modded games (but that's because Notch intentionally made no effort to try to prevent mods ) but yeah. Anyways, yeah, if you guys (Neph especially) have any tips for me on where I could learn the type of code to mod games/rom hacks and that sort of thing that would be great.

[Jakeford]

Well... the Medieval II mod workshop instead of the Hyrule total war mod threat would be a good place to start.

[Teknokraatti]

Jakeford is just right. Workshop is filled with all kinds of tools and tutorials, most of them quite clear and valuable in terms of teaching how the files work. Workshop may look quite chaotic at first, but do not let that affect you. It is really a gold mine to anyone trying to learn how to mod M2TW.

[Aquos4]

I am going to post other places, I just wondered if anyone I know from H;TW subforum had any tips/places to look, sort of like a "It's dangerous to go alone, take this!" kind of thing since there so many trolls constantly lurking in forums.

[Encablossa]

For m2:k use the http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...rces-amp-Tools page.

For other games you should look up documentation if available or any modding tools. You don't necessarily need to know how to code for making little changes to games. If you want to mod a game without any mod support...good luck.