The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

It's time to unveil the first modding challenge of The Witcher 3 REDkit Modding Contest!

Remember Triss’ green robes or Yennefer’s feathered attire? In this challenge, we’re asking you to create an alternative SUMMER look for any character. It could be a breezy summer dress for Ciri, a smart-casual outfit for Dandelion, or a beach look for the Bloody Baron — the possibilities are endless!

In order to submit your mod, you will need to upload it on Nexus Mods at https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3 and provide a link in the submission form available on the official contest website:
https://thewitcher.ly/REDkitContest
You will also find there a handy set of Frequently Asked Questions!

Please remember that:

• you need to participate individually, but you can take part in as many challenges as you wish (you can only submit one mod to every challenge);
  
• entries in this challenge can be submitted until July 30, 2024 3:59 PM CEST;
  
• in order to be eligible in the contest, mods can't have been published prior to April 16th, 2024 1PM CEST;
  
• submitted mods can be updated until the submission phase deadline;
  
• modding challenges will be judged by CD PROJEKT RED and Yigsoft team members.
  

If you want to know more, the contest's complete set of rules and regulations can be found here.

Don't forget that you can also take part in the main category of The Witcher 3 REDkit Modding Contest:
https://thewitcher.ly/REDkitContest

How do you end up working on The Witcher 4? Well, it turns out one member of the team ended up there due to some modding work they were doing in the free time they had around being a beetroot farmer. They're certainly not the only CD Projekt dev who got their industry start that way, either

Pawel Sasko, who's currently the associate game director on Cyberpunk 2077's sequel, discussed how important bringing on board former modders has been for the developer in a recent interview with Flow Games.

One particular case he highlighted was that of Witcher 4 senior quest designer Eero Varendi, who was orignally brought on board by CD Projekt after the company spotted one of the mods he'd made while off-duty from growing veggies.

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Unleash your creativity and take part in the official modding contest for The Witcher 3 REDkit!

This May we've released The Witcher 3 REDkit, an end-to-end solution which allows users to create new experiences and modify all aspects of The Witcher 3. It is based on refurbished versions of the same tools which were used by the RED developers to create this legendary game almost a decade ago. It's available for free for everyone who owns The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Claim yours here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2684660/The_Witcher_3_REDkit/
Learn more on the official website of the editor:
https://www.thewitcher.com/redkit


Now it's time to show us what you can do with it for a chance to win amazing prizes sponsored by our partners. Including:

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, sponsored by NVIDIA;
  
• Gaming headsets, mice and keyboards, sponsored by Razer;
  
• The Witcher team jerseys and playing cards, sponsored by Dyenamik;
  
• The Witcher varsity jackets, sponsored by Insert Coin.
  

Ready to get started?

We invite you to craft a completely new questline made of 2-3 interconnected quests! Here’s your chance to tell your own tale and forge an adventure of your own making — whatever that might be! For each submission, we’ll be looking for creativity, originality, and technical excellence to shine through.

If the main task isn't up your alley or if you need a warmup, you can also take part in smaller Modding Challenges along the way! A themed challenge will be unveiled every couple of weeks to give you an opportunity to showcase your individual skills. There will be 3 in total, with the first one appearing soon!

In order to submit your mod, you will need to upload it on Nexus Mods at https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3 and provide a link in the submission form available on the official contest website:
https://thewitcher.ly/REDkitContest
You will also find there a handy set of Frequently Asked Questions!

You can participate in as many tasks as you want. However, please keep in mind that:

• in the main category you can participate individually or in teams of up to 5 people (you can only be a member of one team);
  
• entries in the main category can be submitted until October 14, 2024 3:59 PM CEST;
  
• in challenges you need to participate individually, but you can take part in as many challenges as you wish (you can only submit one mod to every challenge);
  
• entries in challenges need to be submitted within specific deadlines, as communicated in respective challenge announcements;
  
• in order to be eligible in the contest, mods can't have been published prior to April 16th, 2024 1PM CEST;
  
• submitted mods can be updated until the submission phase deadline.
  

Modding Challenges will be judged by CD PROJEKT RED and Yigsoft team members. For the Main Category, a shortlist of submissions will be made by CD PROJEKT RED and Yigsoft judges, while the final result will be decided by a community vote.

If you want to know more, the contest's complete set of rules and regulations can be found here.

One of the great strengths of The Witcher 3 is its star, Big Geralt—a character we as players get to guide through the game's major events, but with a defined history and personality giving those decisions added heft. Geralt isn't a blank amnesiac Chosen One like so many RPG heroes, and I love that—it's clear the writing, acting, and quests are all built around who he is and how he can leave his mark on the world around him. That focus makes a new mod for the game called Custom Player Characters all the more impressive, because it does a pretty dang good job of turning Geralt into any other character you'd like to play as...
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The Witcher 3 having a bit of a modding renaissance at the moment, and the mod I'm about to tell you about might be one of the most impressive things to come out of it so far. What does it do? Well, let you swap Geralt out for a customisable witcher, witcheress, or sorceress without blowing a huge hole in your immersion boat.

As we've been reporting, TW3's REDkit modding tool, which gives folks access to a lot of the same stuff the studio originally used to create the game itself, has been allowing modders to do a lot of cool new stuff recently, including resurrecting cut content and porting over areas from the series' older entries.

However, contrary to what you might first assume, 'Custom Player Characters' by modder Nikich340 sounds like it was in the works long befor CD Projekt lifted the game's hood. "I spent 2.5+ years on making this mod, there were a bunch of tools which I used, including some which I had to write myself," they write, "Redkit was helpful in fixing some animation bugs on last development stages."

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