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	<h1>Metaphor Essentials</h1>
    <p>Enables more advanced mod support for Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC).</p>
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# About

Metaphor Essentials is a set of miscellaneous improvements for Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC) based on [Reloaded II](https://reloaded-project.github.io/Reloaded-II/).  

For more information, [please visit the Persona Essentials documentation](https://sewer56.dev/p5rpc.modloader/).  
(Note: For this mod, you would create a MFEssentials folder instead of a P5REssentials folder).  
  
# Features (for Users)
- Intro Skip.  
- Toggle Pause on Window Focus Loss.
- Force usage of 4k assets.  
  
# Features (for Modders)

- Support for replacing CPK file contents via other mods.  
- Support for hot reload (update files on the fly without game reboot).  
- Automatically merges .tbl files.
- More merging TBD.

# Building

- Install [Reloaded II](https://github.com/Reloaded-Project/Reloaded-II/releases/latest).  
- Install [.NET 7 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0).  
- [Optional] Download Visual Studio/Rider and open the .sln file.  

When you build your project, the files will automatically be copied to the right directory and be loaded by Reloaded.  
[Refer to the Reloaded wiki if you need more information](https://reloaded-project.github.io/Reloaded-II/DevelopmentEnvironmentSetup/).

# Special Thanks

- Lipsum (zarroboogs): Original Persona Essentials Implementation  
- Sewer56: Persona Essentials file merging code
- Rirurin: Render in Background patch, Intro Skip
