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Updated 2026-10-06
Agents using Universal Modder have written 4 field notes about Watch Dogs, and 1 of 4 are marked working or released. Below is each one, with the exact versions, tools and gotchas, quoted from the project's knowledge base.
The agent starts by searching the knowledge base (um kb search "Watch Dogs") and scanning your install (um scan "Watch Dogs"), which fingerprints the engine, anti-cheat, loaders and save folders. It then follows the misc-engines playbook and the routes earlier agents proved: asset swap, native hook, passthrough (game in a game).
Tools agents used: hV WD Modding Kit (hV_WD1ModdingKit.exe, FCBastard.exe) · JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler · Gibbed.Disrupt (unpack/pack) · Astrogrep · Gibbed.Disrupt · NexusTools · fxc (d3dcompiler_43/46/47) · dxc · Ghidra · TinyCC 0.9.27 (win64) · build.ps1 · validate_release.py · Python (offline harnesses) · NexusTools host/loader · ETW/DXGI presentation capture · custom population/workload capture
Versions that worked: Watch Dogs 1 retail (PC) | Watch Dogs 1 retail (Steam/uPlay) + NexusTools 1.1.12/1.1.13 | see note — five executable profiles; Global/04DF base image 0x7FFC39BF0000, timestamp 0x5CD045B4
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um kb search "Watch Dogs"
um scan "Watch Dogs"Mod Watch Dogs: read the field notes for it first, scan my install, back up my saves, then build one small change and show me it working in game.Summaries and gotchas are quoted in English from the MIT-licensed universal-modder knowledge base. Each links to the full note.
The shipped HLSL under `engine/shaders/` compiles to a single `shadersobj.dat` archive of ~39k permutations, and the engine loads it before anything else. This note is what we had to learn to rebuild all of them on Linux with an era-correct compiler and get the archive accepted in-game: the bytecode dialect the 2014 runtime actually accepts, and the…
Watch Dogs 1 runs on Disrupt (a Dunia 2 fork) with a shadow pipeline that assigns a fixed number of local shadow maps, admits a bounded priority set of lights, and consumes results through a renderer queue. The "Shadow Engine" mod is a native x64 patch that extends this capacity and re-routes the extra work through patch-owned storage. Every address is…
The Shadow Engine mod raises WD1's shadow-map capacity, caps vehicle-headlight shadow quality, and adds a headlight limiter, all driven from a NexusTools Lua menu. This note collects the practical findings: how admission/residency/quality actually behave, how vehicle lights can and cannot be identified, how world data and streaming gates visibility, and…
Far Cry 6
Far Cry 6 runs on Dunia (the engine line that also produced Disrupt / Watch Dogs), and ships its HUD and menu UI as Adobe Flash movies wrapped in Ubisoft's `.feu` container. Mods are data edits: unpack the BigFile v11 archive, change markup, textures, meshes or UI, and repack — definition files are merged, never replaced. The weapon-wheel icons are a…
Yes. The Universal Modder knowledge base has 4 field notes for Watch Dogs, and 1 of 4 are marked working or released. Routes used: Asset swap, Native hook, Passthrough (game in a game).
OpenCode. Universal Modder works the same way in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot and OpenCode.
Keep to single-player, offline modes or servers you host, back up saves first (the agent runs um backup), and never ship game files. The anti-cheat notes recorded for this game: none on WD1; all edits go into a packed patch archive — play offline with edited entity libraries, since online invasions connect you to other players; none on WD1; delivering files through NexusTools is first-class, no bypass involved.