Adding Loose Files - mosamadeeb/RyuModManager GitHub Wiki
This article explains how loose files can be added to a mod without having to include a modified par.
Loose par files
You can also put files that were originally inside a par into a new folder with the same name of the par. Loose files will always override files inside pars. This means that including whole pars in your mod is no longer necessary, and you should only include the files that you modified.
Example: files from chara.par
will be put in /chara/
/MyMod/chara/lexus2/tops/c_cm_kiryu/c_cm_kiryu.gmd
Non-original files
Files do not have to originally exist in a par to be loaded. They can be new files, provided that the game has a method to load them.
Example: character_model_model_data.bin
file modified to replace a character with c_cm_nagoshi
/MyMod/chara/lexus2/tops/c_cm_nagoshi/c_cm_nagoshi.gmd
/MyMod/db/en/character_model_model_data.bin
Nested par loose files
Loose files that were inside nested pars also work.
Example: instead of having hact files inside nested pars
/MyMod/hact_lexus2/h25210_headlock_punch.par
-> 000.par
-> h25210_000_3.gmt
you can put them as loose files inside their respective folders
/MyMod/hact_lexus2/h25210_headlock_punch/000/h25210_000_3.gmt
Next article: Adding Repacked Pars