Hello and welcome to my guide on how to get up and running for modding Breaking Wheel

Disclaimer: I am, in no way, associated with Insane Mind Games or a developer of the game.

I decided to make this guide on my own for others to follow as the process can be a bit tricky at points and some issues may present itself and there are some ways around these that I will do my best to cover.

Most information in this guide comes from the following video which may be to long for some to watch.

Before you start, there are some things that you need to download and install before you get started with modding.

Also be warned that all this will take up quite a bit of hard drive space. I will let you know the space requirements too.

• Breaking Wheel Game (8.86 Gb)
  
• Modding Files (32.1 Gb)
  
• Visual Studio Community 2015[www.visualstudio.com] (approx. 12 Gb)
  
• Unreal Engine[www.unrealengine.com] (Epic Games Launcher) (11-12 Gb)

Total Disk Space: Approx. 65 Gb

NOTE: the install time for software will vary depending on your system specs and download speed

In order to get the mod files, you have to purchase the game. If you have not yet done so, you can get the game from here and the modding files are under the DLC

Please note that the mod files are a large download as they contain the uncooked file for Unreal Engine.

You can locate the Modding files in your steamapps\common\Breaking Wheel\ModdingTools folder. We will be visiting this folder later.


(Note: i have my files installed to my D drive, may be different for you)

If you have not already done so, download Visual Studio Community (this is free) from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

Installation is rather simple, however, there are a couple requirements. When you run the installer you will get the following screen. Make sure you select "Custom" for installation type

The custom selection that are required for installation are:-

Under Programming Languages > Visual C++ make sure to select "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015". If you do not then it will cause issues later.


Next scroll to the bottom and check "Common Tools", it is unknown if it's needed or not but to be safe just install them. Keep everything else as default.


The download size may vary depending on what you have installed on your system. The installer will not install anything that you have a newer version of.

When you're done you can close the installer and move on to the next step.

This step is rather simple but i will cover it for those that are not familiar with how to install unreal Engine. If you know how to install it, you can skip this step.

If you have not done so, download Epic games Launcher from https://www.unrealengine.com/ and create a free account.

Run the installer that you have downloaded (you can spam the next button). When installed run epic Games Launcher and login with your account


After logging in, if you get a message titled "Outdated Shortcuts" select "Fix Now" (Epic should really fix this in the installation process). Next, at the top, select Unreal Engine.

REQUIRED INSTALL VERSION: 4.14.1

Click the Install Engine button. At the time of writing, the latest version is the required version of Unreal engine.

If it prompts you to install a newer version than stated above then click the X button (top right) to cancel the installation.


In your library click "+ Add Versions" and change the version to the stated above then click Install


To save some space you can deselect the target platforms (bottom of the list) but leave the rest as default and Install

This may take some time to install. After Unreal engine has installed you will need to download and install the "Substance Plugin" as it is a requirement. If you do this now then it will cause an error in the next step.

To install the "Substance Plugin" select Marketplace and in the search area search for "Substance plugin" and select it


Click on the Free button then when it changes click "Install to Engine" make sure to have 4.14 selected then click install


That is you all done here and i would suggest restarting Epic Games Launcher to associate uproject files. When you restart it will ask you if you would like to associate them now. Select Fix Now.


Time to move to the next step.

You're almost ready to start modding. Just 1 last step and that is to load the modding files.

to do this, navigate to the mod files directory "steamapps\common\Breaking Wheel\ModdingTools" (which was mentioned earlier). There is a file called "Ellie_Ball_Project.uproject" all you need to do is open this file.

If you restarted Epic Games Launcher at the end of the last step then it will open with Unreal Engine. If you did not then to this now.

When you run the Ellie_Ball_Project file you will get a message stating that there is a missing DLL. Do not panic, this is just because the binaries are missing


Just click yes and it will build the binaries for you and launch the project in unreal Engine. The time it takes to do all this will depend on your system specs so please be patient with this as it may take some time to do.

If you get a message about Substance Plugin missing, please check back to the previous section to resolve this issue before continuing.

When the binaries have finishing building, Unreal Engine will launch and open the project and if this is the first time running Unreal Engine then you should see something like this


If you have got to this stage then congrats, you are ready to make mods for Breaking Wheel. I know that this is a time consuming process to get to this stage but you're ready to mod.

If you have got though this whole guide installing everything then congrats your ready to mod and share your mods with the community and I personally lookforward to see what you can make and i am also sure the devs feel the same way.

I know that this proccess is long and time consuming. I have gone though it twice, once to set everything up on my Main PC and a second time to write this guide for everyone.

I will also try to make guides or vids on how to make mods (in detail) for those that wish a detailed guide or new to modding. These may take some time to do and all i ask is for some patience. There is a video at the top of this guide made by Insane Minds Games that will help you for the time being

Happy Modding.

CAPGames