BG3 Mod Studio is a comprehensive Windows application for creating and editing mods for Baldur's Gate 3.
Built with modern C++20, WTL (Windows Template Library), and DirectX, it provides a fast, native Windows experience for BG3 modding.
BG3 Mod Studio is a multi-tab editor interface that provides:
- Full-text indexing with Xapian for lightning-fast search of PAK content (stats, spells, passives, localization)
- RocksDB storage for instant retrieval of icons and game objects
- Text editors with Scintilla-based syntax highlighting
- Image viewers with Direct2D rendering (DDS, PNG, JPG, BMP, TGA, GIF, HDR)
- GR2 model viewer with Direct3D 11 rendering for 3D character and object models
- PAK explorer for browsing BG3 PAK files without extraction
- LSF viewer for inspecting Larian's LSF files
- Game Object explorer for inspecting and searching game data
- Icon explorer for browsing and searching game icons
- PAK Generator for building and packaging mods
- Visual Studio 2022-2026 with C++20 support
- Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.0 or later)
- vcpkg for dependency management
- Git with submodule support
- Clone with submodules:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/trieck/BG3ModStudio.git cd BG3ModStudio
BG3 Mod Studio’s original source code is licensed under the MIT License. The distributed application includes third-party components licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later, and redistribution of the combined application is subject to the GNU GPL v2 or later.
See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md for details.