ZenGin directory structure

Modding is all about changing the game files. To achieve that, we have to know the directory (folder) structure of a Gothic game.

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├── Data
│   ├── $Templates$
│   ├── modvdf
│   └── Plugins
├── Miles
├── Saves
├── System
│   └── Autorun
└── _work
    └── DATA
        ├── Anims
        │   └── _Compiled
        ├── Meshes
        │   └── _Compiled
        ├── Music
        ├── Presets
        ├── Scripts
        │   ├── _compiled
        │   └── content
        │       └── CUTSCENE
        ├── Sound
        ├── Textures
        ├── Video
        └── Worlds

Data

Data directory contains .vdf volumes of the game. These contain anims.vdf - animations, speech.vdf - dubbing, worlds.vdf - world ZEN files.

Saves

Contains saved games.

System

The system directory contains the game executable, GothicStarter.exe, GothicStarter_mod.exe, configuration .ini files, mod .ini files and mod icons and description .rtf files.

system/Autorun is a Union specific directory, it serves as a default search directory for Daedalus injection scripts with zParserExtender and Union plugins.

_work/DATA

This is where the magic happens:

• Anims - contains animations and animated models.
  • _compiled - contains compiled animations.
• Meshes - contains meshes source and compiled files.
  • _compiled - contains compiled meshes.
• Music - contains music files.
• Presets - contains basic presets.
• Scripts
  • _compiled - contains compiled scripts - .dat files.
  • Content - contains scripts that make up the content of the game.
  • System - contains scripts that make up the menu.
• Sound - contains sound effects .wav or .ogg format (Union only).
• Video - contains videos in .bik format.