Fluffy Manager 5000

A mod manager that can install mods for Resident Evil 3.

usage:

Extract the Mod Manager to anywhere (if you're upgrading from an older version, just extract it to the older version).

Before running the Mod Manager for the first time, make sure that all PAK files in your RE3 installation have not been modified (to do this easily, right-click the game in Steam and select "Verify File Integrity").

Run the mod manager and select Resident Evil 3 demo as the game.

Drag and drop the RE3 mod in RAR format into the mod manager window (make sure RE3 Demo is selected), or copy the mod to "[modmanager]\Games\RE3R_Demo\Mods"

Run the mod manager, click "Manage mods" and then click on mods to install or uninstall them.

What to do if RE3 is patched when no mod is installed:

Click "re-read game archives" in the "manage mods" menu of the mod manager.

Installing and uninstalling the mod should work again. Please note that some mods may not be compatible with newer versions of the game.

What to do if you patched RE3 after installing the mod:

Try uninstalling the mod via Mod Manager. You should receive different error messages regarding PAK files.

Turn on the "Force Uninstall" option at the top of the management module menu.

Click "Uninstall all mods".

This isn't necessary, but as a precaution I recommend right-clicking on the game in Steam and selecting "Verify File Integrity".

Click "re-read game archives" in the "manage mods" menu of the mod manager.

Installing and uninstalling the mod should work again. Please note that some mods may not be compatible with newer versions of the game.

Information for mod creators:

If you click "mod download" you can download a mod, which gives you a good example of how to build a mod.

Note that the modinfo.ini file is optional (and all entries in it are optional).

The mod manager will always check for "screenshot.jpg" or "screenshot.png" to use as a mod preview image, even if modinfo.ini does not exist.

It is highly recommended that you compress the mod into a RAR archive with the "solid archive" option set to off (should be the default setting).

If anyone is curious, here's how the mod manager works in detail for RE3:

It will process the mod's filenames and try to find them in the game's PAK file (it searches for them the same way the game does, by calculating a hash based on the file path).

If matching entries are found, it invalidates those entries in the PAK file so the game cannot find them and therefore attempts to load the files outside of the PAK file.

Then copy the mod files to the game directory.

Uninstalling a mod works in a very similar way (it will re-validate the entries in the PAK file using cached information about the PAK file) and automatically delete the corresponding mod file (or restore a backup of the original file).