Introduction

Once your mod is created and tested, the very last step remains - to publish it. Fortunately, we have tried our best to make this process simple and fast for you! Before you jump straight to mod publishing, make sure you have prepared a description and all the required media content for publication. Below you find a link to a document that contains all the necessary requirements.

Media content requirements

If you have everything ready, it is high time to start!

Before publishing

Before publishing a mod, you need to fill in some data, including the name, general description, item description, etc. so that we know exactly how to display your mod in the game. To do this, we have developed special types of assets, called manifests, so that you can easily customize your mod. All types of manifests are created through the Content Browser context menu from the Hellsplit Workbench section.

Hellsplit Mod Manifest

This is the first, mandatory and the most important manifest, in which you should indicate the friendly name of your mod and its description. Without this manifest it will be impossible to pack you mod.

<aside> 💡 Starting from the current update, the Hellsplit Mod Manifest is created automatically when you create a mod. If you created your mod before the release of the current version of Hellsplit: Workbench, you will need to create a manifest manually.

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Overview

Contains mod description
It is a mandatory manifest, can exist only in a single copy (creation of two or more Hellsplit Mod Manifests can lead to to unpredictable results, make sure that you have one single manifest of this type).

Field	Type	Descriptions	Notes
Name	Required	Friendly name of the mod
Description	Optional	Description of the mod
Author	Optional	Name of the mod’s author
ModURL	Optional	The mod’s web site
Screenshots	Optional	Screenshots of the mod	Format: 16:9. You should import images to the mod’s content folder as texture assets before you can set them as screenshots.
It’s recommend to set the next properties for your texture assets:

Compression Settings: UserInterface2D
Texture Group: UI |

Hellsplit Mod Campaign Manifest

This manifest describes the new campaign created for the game Hellsplit: Arena. If you are making your own company, it is necessary to create this manifest to include a description of the campaign in it.

<aside> 💡 How a campaign differs from a training map:

There must be an altar in the training map and the game always runs according to the same scenario: you choose a weapon, set up waves of the enemies and start the game. Training always takes place on one single map
In the campaign, you should define the scenario and the course of the game by yourself. When the game starts, when it ends, how enemies appear in the game - it's all up to you
The campaign may contain many maps that change during the game
The campaign may not have an altar
Campaigns are displayed in the Campaign menu, and training maps in the Training menu </aside>

Overview

Manifests quantity is unlimited. Each manifest can contain several campaigns.