{"id":72117,"date":"2014-09-03T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=72117"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:30:15","slug":"saints-row-iv-official-sdk-released-now-you-can-mod-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/saints-row-iv-official-sdk-released-now-you-can-mod-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Row IV official SDK released, now you can mod weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developer <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/volition\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volition<\/a> has released the first part of the <strong>Official SDK<\/strong> (software development kit) for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/saints-row-4\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saints Row IV<\/a> on PC, meaning modders are now free to go crazy making their own weapons for the over the top sandbox game. The Saints Row IV SDK A has <strong>tutorials<\/strong>, <strong>templates<\/strong> and <strong>tools<\/strong> for modifying weapons within the game.<\/p>\n<p>This SDK allows you to play around with all of the weapons from Saints Row 3 and 4, while future releases should let you add new content, even as far as creating your own missions. Modding is already possible with Saints Row 4, but only with the release of this SDK can you play around with and alter the assets that are already in the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-72118\" title=\"Damned Impaler\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/CtI72w3-568x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/CtI72w3-568x319.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/CtI72w3-256x143.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/CtI72w3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/CtI72w3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/09\/CtI72w3-238x134.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Volition made the SDK available with an example weapon mod, the &#8216;<strong>Damned Impaler<\/strong>&#8216;, which you can see above.<\/p>\n<p>Download the Official <strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/ca-dl.saintsrowmods.com\/files\/sdk\/SRIV_SDK_Release_A_revision_2.7z\" target=\"_blank\">Saints Row IV SDK A Release<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2014\/09\/03\/saints-row-iv-sdk-release-a-out-now-more-to-follow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rock Paper Shotgun<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"New game announcement from Saints Row developer coming Friday\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/new-game-announcement-from-saints-row-developer-coming-friday\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New game announcement from Saints Row developer coming Friday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download the Saints Row IV Inauguration Station\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/download-the-saints-row-iv-inauguration-station\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the Saints Row IV Inauguration Station<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Saints Row 4 denied Australian classification in re-review\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/saints-row-4-denied-australian-classification-in-re-review-devs-working-on-low-violence-version\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saints Row 4 denied Australian classification in re-review<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer Volition has released the first part of the Official SDK (software development kit) for Saints Row IV on PC, meaning modders are now free to go crazy making their own weapons for the over the top sandbox game. The Saints Row IV SDK A has tutorials, templates and tools for modifying weapons within the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/saints-row-iv-official-sdk-released-now-you-can-mod-weapons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saints Row IV official SDK released, now you can mod weapons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-72117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330233,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72117\/revisions\/330233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=72117"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=72117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}