¶ This is a guide that covers the ENTIRE workflow of making an armour mod.
It’s about 10 pages long, and pretty detailed, so it might take at least 15 minutes to read.
The reason why I’m writing this guide is that, I want to provide a step-by-step general instruction for armor modding, so people won’t have to find tutorial A here tutorial B there tutorial C somewhere else…without any guidance, just like what I had to go through in the beginning.
So umm…I hope this helps! And I hope that this guide will become one of those articles that people might save bookmarks of, and then come back to it when they forgot one step in their workflow, or simply couldn’t figure out what’s wrong and just wanna overview the whole process…that’s it! :D
(I will put the required tools and other resources at the bottom of this article, so that you can decide what to use and what not to)
12/19/2025 Update: Added a text format version so you could easily translate this into a language you're more familiar with :)
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¶ Here are all the tools and references and tutorials you'll need:
¶ Downloadable Tools:
Blender
Norbyte/dos2de_collada_exporter
Norbyte/lslib
Aloija/BG3-Substance-Painter-DDS-Exporter
ShinyHobo/BG3-Modders-Multitool
sentfromspacevr/robust-weight-transfer
Volno's Texture Toolbox (This includes chaiNNer template files)
chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer
BG3 Shaders For Substance Painter
BG3 Lazy Tailor - Outfit Refitting Tools for Blender
¶ Utilities and References:
BG3 Search Engine
Modding:Race UUID
Modding:Treasure Table Ref
Modding:Armor/Clothing Texture Maps
Modding:Texture formatting
Modding:Creating Outfit Textures
¶ Tutorials:
Creating Armour Guidelines
Adding New Armors guide in Toolkit
Adding Skill and Item Icons guide in Toolkit
BG3 Install GR2 plugin then Import and Export example - YouTube
Build your own equipment mod for Baldur's Gate 3 - Modding with Ohfor Ep. 1 - YouTube
Add loot to your mod for Baldur's Gate 3 - Modding with Ohfor Ep. 2 - YouTube
Icons for your mod for Baldur's Gate 3 - Modding with Ohfor Ep. 11 - YouTube
BG3 Textures Part 1 - Working with Textures in the Toolkit - YouTube
Modding BG3: How to add cloth physics manually - YouTube