Ingame Editor

Crimson13 said:

Edit: Which after looking around the BE forums is disappointing because apparently BE is very similar to Civ5 under the hood.

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I bet it is: the video I saw gave me the feeling of a civ5 dlc so it is likely that not much changed under the hood.

But then, even if in the best case (I doubt so) I could produce a stripped down version of IGE in two hours, after that there would be bugs, missing features, breaking changes patch after patch, users' questions and support, etc. And *this* would amount from dozens to hundreds of hours.

I really hope that someone takes over IGE and adapts it for BE. But I currently work 80h a week, I don't even have the time to play video games, and IGE was a 500h+ work over two years.

IGE is open source, the solution is published on sourceforce, it has a GPL license, and the code is more than decent. If anyone wants to take it over he has my blessing. But I won't.

DonQuiche said:

... IGE was a 500h+ work over two years.

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Thank you for all your work on IGE over the years. I've been using since release, and without it I could never have undertaken any of my mods.

Best, FA

FramedArchitect said:

Thank you for all your work on IGE over the years. I've been using since release, and without it I could never have undertaken any of my mods.

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The same count for me, it would be a mess for us modders to check all our mods without this awesome mod.
Bigs thanks to my Lord Don

its a shame that you wont be doing this for BE since IGE is probably the best tool to editing your game ive ever seen.

i guess il have to stick to trainers for now.

@DonQuiche - I have been trying to use your IGE for 4 days now and still can't get it to work I am on Civ 5 mac v1.0.9.34384 and I set up a game and it starts loading but then it freezes and does the rainbow circle thing and it makes the screen small so i can see the desktop and close it out but I can enable other mods. plz help because I really would like to use your mod because it looks amazing. Thank you

DonQuiche said:

I bet it is: the video I saw gave me the feeling of a civ5 dlc so it is likely that not much changed under the hood.

But then, even if in the best case (I doubt so) I could produce a stripped down version of IGE in two hours, after that there would be bugs, missing features, breaking changes patch after patch, users' questions and support, etc. And *this* would amount from dozens to hundreds of hours.

I really hope that someone takes over IGE and adapts it for BE. But I currently work 80h a week, I don't even have the time to play video games, and IGE was a 500h+ work over two years.

IGE is open source, the solution is published on sourceforce, it has a GPL license, and the code is more than decent. If anyone wants to take it over he has my blessing. But I won't.

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FramedArchitect said:

Thank you for all your work on IGE over the years. I've been using since release, and without it I could never have undertaken any of my mods.

Best, FA

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Same here! Very much appreciate the amount of time and work you put into IGE!

DonQuiche, you also have my thanks for this tool it was a fine piece of kit.

Shame you wont be carrying it on for BE but well understand

80+hrs a week what do you do for a living Don?

Regards

Riker13

Thanks to all of you. And Gilgamesch, I know how much work you must have put in your own work.

@Spanners
I do not know what this rainbow circle thing is and afaik IGE is not related.

@Riker13
I am a programmer and I founded my startup, hence why I am so busy.

DonQuiche said:

@Spanners
I do not know what this rainbow circle thing is and afaik IGE is not related.

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The rainbow circle thing is the Mac OS equivalent of the Windows egg timer. It indicates that the program has hung.

@Spanners
IGE works find in my Steam copy of Civ5. However, I don't recognise your version number v1.0.9.34384. Where did you get it?

PS. Have you looked around the Mac forum? There's a lot of information specific to the Mac versions about installing mods.

@DonQuiche
ok thankyou

@AlanH
it is the retail version. and no i haven't but thank you i will look now.

DonQuiche said:

I really hope that someone takes over IGE and adapts it for BE. But I currently work 80h a week, I don't even have the time to play video games, and IGE was a 500h+ work over two years.

IGE is open source, the solution is published on sourceforce, it has a GPL license, and the code is more than decent. If anyone wants to take it over he has my blessing. But I won't.

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A pity, but very understandable, of course.

For what it's worth, you have my sincere gratitude for the -rather excellent- job you did with the IGE.

Best of luck with your start-up, Don

Next game I start I'll create an island in the sun and call it Quishemir. Local mayor will probably be called Don Quishtrobal. Mmmm... mayby not...

Hi, I just ran into a problem that I don't see listed yet, I can hardly imagine that nobody has run into it before, though.

I just used IGE to move a CS settler a tile along (delete - place new), as it had a sea luxury but the CS settler had spawned a tile inland - this sometimes happens in the default game. So I thought I'd just move it a tile towards the coast so the CS would have access to its own resource - easy, right?
The problem is my newly placed settler didn't settle, but started to wander about aimlessly. I repeated it a few times on different maps - same result. Then I tested it with a settler from a real civ - same story.
It looks like settlers that IGE places are missing the instruction to settle.

I probably need to use Firaxis' World Builder for what I want to do, although if somebody has any idea how to put a settler on the map successfully with IGE I would be very grateful for that advice.

EDIT: I overlooked something!!! IGE has a teleport function. I must teleport the settler, then everything's okay. I don't know if DonQuiche knew placing settlers doesn't work and therefore created this teleport option, but it just goes to show what a brilliant and well thought out tool IGE is. As long as it doesn't fall in the hands of stupid people like me, of course.
Problem solved, forget what I wrote above, although it may be handy for some to know placing settlers with IGE doesn't work. World Builder would not have helped me either though; I would have had to place every unit in the game manually on it again, I wasn't going to do that.

Just wondering Don. You going have IGE in the Civ: Beyond Earth?

DonQuiche said:

I bet it is: the video I saw gave me the feeling of a civ5 dlc so it is likely that not much changed under the hood.

But then, even if in the best case (I doubt so) I could produce a stripped down version of IGE in two hours, after that there would be bugs, missing features, breaking changes patch after patch, users' questions and support, etc. And *this* would amount from dozens to hundreds of hours.

I really hope that someone takes over IGE and adapts it for BE. But I currently work 80h a week, I don't even have the time to play video games, and IGE was a 500h+ work over two years.

IGE is open source, the solution is published on sourceforce, it has a GPL license, and the code is more than decent. If anyone wants to take it over he has my blessing. But I won't.

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Mars83 said:

Just wondering Don. You going have IGE in the Civ: Beyond Earth?

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He already answered this question

Someone else fixed up IGE for Civ:BE and put it up on the Steam mods. Works great for me.

Could someone point me to a valid thread where I can get help in setting up a game where certain civs start the game at war with each other? I've searched with little success. I DO have this editor and the "Really Advanced Setup" menu MOD.

I see so i did miss it.

I use a legal, updated version of the game in windows 7.
When i select city tile with IGE(and click on the add building icons), there is a grey writing in the bottom of the explanations.
Same thing when i add improvements to a tile.
Also, some buildings added by other mods appear in the building list as ???.

So far there are issues with IGE: BE. expand border not working and the up grade troops not working much either. As not compatible with other mods much.

@Mars83

DonQuiche isn't working on IGE:BE, someone else is.