Realms Data Pack Development Kit

Currently, this tool is only supported on Windows. It is possible to get it running on other OS's, but you will experience issues.

Installation

1. First you will need a semi-recent version of Panda3D. If you don't have one downloaded already, you can find one here.
2. Clone this repository
   • You can do this by the following methods
     1. Clone it through GitHub by clicking here if you have Github Desktop
     2. Running git clone https://github.com/ttoff/dpdk.git in your terminal in a new folder
     3. Pressing Download Zip (NOT recommended, as you will have to manually redownload each time there's an update)
3. Open run.cmd in your text editor of choice and edit the set PANDA_PATH= to point to your Panda3D installation directory
4. Run run.cmd

Note: If you have an issue with the installation, you may need to download the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022 from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2022

Tutorial

• Creating a Data Pack
• Overriding a Cog Appearance
• Changing Cog Quotes
• Changing Cog Spawns
• Building and Distributing your pack

Creating a Data Pack

1. Open the Data Pack Development Kit
2. Press New Pack

3. Fill out all the fields (all are required) 4. Press Create

Overriding a Cog Appearance

1. Create a pack, or open an already existing one
2. In the Cog Appearances Tab, click New Override

3. Choose a base game Cog you want to override

4. You can now edit various aspects of the Cog's Body through the Body tab
   • Note, all changes are saved automatically

5. And edit the head through the Head tab

On the head tab, you can modify existing head parts, replace them, add new ones, or remove them.

6. You can add a new part by pressing the Add Head Part button

7. You can delete head parts by pressing the x button

8. You can edit the Cog's name in the Info tab

9. When you're done, press the Back to Cog list button

Changing Cog Quotes

This feature of Data Packs is currently not available in the Data Pack Development Kit

Changing Cog Spawns

This feature of Data Packs is currently not available in the Data Pack Development Kit

Building and Distributing your pack

1. Open your pack
2. In the Share menu, press Compile Pack

3. When the build is complete, your file browser will open and show you the finished file.
4. You can now put it in your game directory, or share it with others.