simod: Structured IE mod tool

A mod tool for Infinity Engine games using SQL as an intermediate representation.

This tool exposes Infinity Engine's files as a SQLite database and gives access to a number of functions for modifying this database.

Workflow

• simod init initializes the database and loads all data from the IE files (key/bif and existing override files).
• simod add target installs a mod or mod component, by running a script (written by the mod author) which edits the database.
• simod save compiles all changes in the database back to the override directory.

Current status

Proof-of-concept. This tool is not very capable (yet). It can only access game items for now, and do some very basic editing on them.

However, a significant part of basic infrastruture has been implemented:

• resource loading from key/bif/override,
• database structure,
• Lua script loading (and API for database access),
• strref and resref translation,
• resource and string saving. Rough roadmap for next features to implement includes:
• differential or atomic compilation,
• translation generator from Lua source code,
• binary resource handling,
• dialog access,
• script (de)compiler,
• other resource types,
• mod manager