You should have included with this package a “Reference Data” folder. You won’t have to restart the engine to change a mod, just to create a new one and have it appear in the list.ģ. You must restart the game to see any new mods. The name of the directory will be the name of the mod. A dialog will appear telling you where to place your mods.Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Ģ.Start the game and open the Mods screen.Mods work by providing the different files to use. The engine will attempt to find the files it needs in mods before searching the root game path. Hopefully this will be sufficient to get you started. Note: This early draft of the modding instructions is far from completion. 5 Converting Sins data files into binary.