Editing Civs?

1SDANi · Oct 28, 2014

I've recently gotten interested in modding Civ V. I've looked around at many tutorials but all of my attempts at editing the base game civs have failed. I would really like to make a mod that edits an old civ instead of adding a new one as I feel it'd be annoying having 2 Washingtons and unintuitive to be forced to download that mod that removes vanilla civs to play my mod.

So, how would I go about replacing a UA, UU, UB etc with my own?

AW Arcaeca · Oct 28, 2014

Well, there's several ways of doing this...
What exactly did you have in mind?

1SDANi · Oct 28, 2014

I'm aiming to replace the UA and other unique bonuses Civs have with new ones as to better balance the game

AW Arcaeca · Oct 28, 2014

Well, yeah, I got that from your first post. I kind of meant, what's an example of a specific change you want to make?

Consider this:
To replace a UB, for example, you can edit the code that sets defines building X as a UB so that it instead makes building Y the UB, and then create building Y. Or, you can completely edit all the properties of building X so that they now match what the properties of building Y would have been had you created it.
The same logic goes for changing a UA and UU.
Which method would you prefer?

1SDANi · Oct 28, 2014

Oh, I'd prefer the changing of the UB from UB X to UB Y, seems like it'd cause less incompatibilities.

Sorry, I really didn't understand what you meant.

AW Arcaeca · Oct 28, 2014

Well, in that case, you can use this as a template for the XML:

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I don't know what you know, so I can link you to a couple of introductory tutorials to making buildings if you need.
The process of switching UUs is rather similar:

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UA process is similar but deals with leaders rather than civilizations:

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Editing Civs?

1SDANi

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AW Arcaeca

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