Unity-Lua VS Unity-game-hacking

We use MoonSharp for our Lua integration, and it provides easy ways to bind methods and read & write data between C# and Lua sides. It also allows oyu to easily manage the LuaVMs themselves, of course, but we've also created our own wrapper for it that adds some helpful features and also allows us easily write Lua APIs and then choose which ones to use for each LuaVM when we start them.

The game is made with Unity so it uses C# for its code. I like to mod the game using something like BepInEx, so that the actual assets and code of the game remain untouched. This resource, was also helpful for me when I was first learning how to mod the game.

AssetStudio - let's you extract models, textures, sounds, etc. from the game's assetbundles (aka: the game's compressed / packed data). There's also this guide on other programs for Unity modding - less of a guide really, more for finding out what other tools there are.

HK is a unity project that they decompiled the source with tools like these and made changes to build for Android. Halo was on a proprietary engine made specifically for non mobile architecture.

Yea, Unity being so popular means it has a whole ecosystem of decompiler and asset extractor tools: https://github.com/imadr/Unity-game-hacking

Here's a guide regardless. Assumes previous programming knowledge.

I have done some very limited modding of the .dll with Ilspy/Reflexil, but most variable modification does nothing at all. Not exactly sure why that is as, most games that I mod in this manner, if I change a 1 to a 4, then it correctly is applied ingame. In theory I could do further modification with the Unity Assets Bundle Extractor (or UABE for short), but that requires knowing the precise name of specific entities, items, and traits, to do so (the search function is fairly barebones, so unless you know precisely what something is called, you have to manually search through thousands of entries). I have also looked into other tools that might do the job (here is a link to the various tools and suggestions on how to "mod" unity titles) = https://github.com/imadr/Unity-game-hacking), but again, still require the precise name of things to modify them, and for reasons unknown, the QuickBMS script doesn't work on any of the Void Bastard files (but does work on other Unity titles).

If you’re interested in how it works you could start here: https://github.com/imadr/Unity-game-hacking

Haha well, let me give the short version then: Dialog is represented as UUIDs (a long string of digits and letters essentially) in the game's level files. Each UUID is then mapped to different translations under the localization folder. These are in clear text, so you can immediately find (almost) all dialog in the game very easily by going to the Kingmaker_Data/StreamingAssets/Localization folder in your game files and looking at the files there that start with enGB. The harder part is figuring out who is saying what line. To do that, you have to look at the binary asset files. I have seen a few tools online that let you extract them (there's a list of them here), but it's sure to be a long and painful process.