What made you start modding?

Who or what made you start doing it ? Did you want to do something you could latter share with the rest of the world, and known they play your work ?

Or what encouraged you ?

Thats a good question!

Funnily enough it was Command & Conquer, I wanted to make my own missions and downloaded the unofficial C&C map editor.

It wasn't long before I had about 10 new missions and it was great fun building and testing them. Over time I began modding it to make the game more balanced.

Later on I moved onto Duke Nukem 3D. The game was really moddable and it was good fun adding new weapons and stuff. The BUILD editor was pretty simple but you could create some amazing levels from scratch. It was entertaining playing death match games against friends on maps I had initially created, I knew where everything was.

When C&C Tiberium Sun came out I spent hours modifying the rules.ini file tweaking various aspects to suit my preferences. Unreal was a favourite too, I spent a long time learning the UNREAL-ED Editor. Baldurs Gate 2, Morrowind and Oblivion got me hooked for a long time as well.

Started just out of curiosity, just like everything else in my life...

I've played an custom Warcraft III map and became interested in how they are made. Then I opened WCIII World Editor and started experimenting. Became so addicted to stuff that I was spending days making custom maps. Largest one was around 23MB if I remember correctly.

And then came TESIII Morrowind with it's Construction Set bringing an awesome degree of modding freedom...

i started on oblivion.
when i began to play, i didn't have internet, so i DLed to a PC of a friend, but i didn't have a lot of mods, so i began to created my own cheat mods, to have money, black soulgems, and so on.
and later, i realised something was missing in oblivion, and i wanted to create it myself, so, when i finally had internet, i read a lot of tutorials and finally succed to make what i wanted.
people who know me can easily imagine what it is, but i won't explain in an all-audience topic :D

I started with Oblivion.I was fasinated by the mods I used for my game and with help I was able to create my own,now I still mod just not as much.