elex Replacing items in the game world/adding items to merchant?

[HugAMuffin]

I have seen several mods on here, as well as WorldOfPlayers.de, that add items to the game world by replacing others, or by adding them to a merchant's selling inventory.

Ex:

https://www.nexusmods.com/elex/mods/13

https://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1509118-Mod-Helmet-s-with-Item-Sight-buff-from-Sunglasses

My question is: how?

I am familiar with Elexresman, and swapping models and textures for this game, and I understand how to unpack the .elexsec files in Sector, but I do not know what to edit or change in the files. I also do not know how to edit .elexwrl files or .elextpl files, should that me necessary.

My goal is this:

Place the helmet, armor, and legs of every faction armor in various, sensible, accessible locations in their respective faction cities. Or add them all to a single merchant.

I'd like to make the world object for them the same model as the "Large bag of Elex" pickup model to keep it simple.

I know I need to replace items that already in the game world, but I cannot figure out how to know what item to replace or how to actually replace them.

I will gladly do the legwork for this mod if anyone can point me in the right direction.

Any help would be very appreciated! Thank you!

[hadoumastery]

Care to share how you unpack/edit .elexsec and .elextpl files?

 

Or I suppose just .elexsec since that is all you know, I misread that first part lol

Edited March 13, 2018 by hadoumastery