Best way to setup content pipeline projects to facilitate modding?

[Harag]

I believe it’s possibly to load in the images etc as is (e.g. png) rather than load in the compiled xnb’s. Maybe look at the file structure so you have a “Mods” folder where the mods go and then a player selected a mod to load you load the images from there as PNG.

Though I’m not 100% how to load a PNG into a Texture2D, but I’ve seen code around these forums that show this somewhere. (I might have even bookmarked the topic.)

Edit: found it quicker than I thought I would, I did indeed bookmark the topic:

Runtime sprite replacement

From what I understand, the content pipeline is the best way to handle assets in the monogame platform. I would like to be able to load content from a filesystem or a network location and see it appear live in my game. Does monogame support this ability? So far I’ve only been able to use the Content Pipeline Tool that lets you pre-compile the assets into xnb files and load them with Content.Load().