README.md

BG3 WASD Movement

A mod for Baldur's Gate 3 that allows direct character movement with WASD keys (or others).

Find it on Nexusmods.

Building

Requirements

• CMake
  • Add this to your PATH
• PowerShell
• Vcpkg
  • Add the environment variable VCPKG_ROOT with the value as the path to the folder containing vcpkg
• Visual Studio Community 2022
  • Desktop development with C++
• Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Distribution
  • Add the environment variable BG3PATH with the value as path to game install folder
  • Add BG3PATH2 if you have a secondary installation (E.g. one for Steam, one for GOG)
• 7zip
  • Install to default dir

Register Visual Studio as a Generator

• Open x64 Native Tools Command Prompt
• Run cmake
• Close the cmd window

Building

git clone https://github.com/Ch4nKyy/BG3WASD.git
cd BG3WASD
git submodule init
git submodule update --remote
.\build-release.ps1

Solution Generation (Optional)

If you want to generate a Visual Studio solution, run the following command:

.\generate-sln.ps1

Note: This will generate a BG3WASD.sln file in the build directory.

VSCode Intellisense (Optional)

To fix Intellisense in VSCode, do the following:

• Install the extensions ms-vscode.cpptools and ms-vscode.cmake-tools.
• Build the solution with the cmake tools extension.
• In your c_cpp_properties.json, use "configurationProvider": "ms-vscode.cmake-tools". This is the only needed parameter, apart from "name".