How to make Modern Units you download from this site work

How do you get all those units from wolfdog and so on in the modern unites download section to work I download a mod oh say from wolfdog or some other mod like crazy copters and i put it in my mods folder I go to my mods list there know were to be seen.....sooo I figure iam not putting all these mods in the right place do they go some were else besides the modfolder???


For instance like this mod
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=22982

were do i install this???

Those files are not full fledged mods that you can simply drop in and run, which is the problem you're running into.

Most of those custom units are actually just the unit assets for mod developers to use. In other words, they're simply base files for people to incorporate into actual mods. If you want to use them, you would likely either need to figure out which custom Civ has made use of the asset, or otherwise make one yourself.

Take a look at my mod here where I used the art files from one of Danrell's download pages here on the forum. In order for me to make use of those unit animation art files I had to create a unit and then tell the game to use the unit art animation files for my unit.

In the folder ART/UnitModels/ you will find files with names Longswordsman_Templar.blend , Longswordsman_Templar.dds , Longswordsman_Templar.fxsxml , Longswordsman_Templar.gr2 , Longswordsman_Templar.jpg , and Longswordsman_Templar_gloss.dds. The jpg file so far as I remember isn't used for anything. But the rest of those files are used to create a unit animation.

But that just gets you the art creation (as it were) for the unit animation. It doesn't make anything happen in the game yet.

To get the animations to work in the game you have to define a unit animation ART_DEF_UNIT_SOMETHING, and you have to tell the game to use that ART_DEF_UNIT_SOMETHING for a unit's animations.

There are two files in my mod that are creating the ART_DEF_UNIT_SOMETHING. In my case I called my Unit Art Definition ART_DEF_UNIT_KNIGHT_TEMPLAR. The two files are SQL/CrusaderArtDefines.SQL and XML_ArtDefines/Crusader_art.xml. I could have done all my Unit Art Definition in one SQL file or one XML file. I just found it easier to use a combination of XML file and SQL file.

In the definition of the new Unit (found in file XML_Units/Crusader.xml) I have a reference to use my ART_DEF_UNIT_KNIGHT_TEMPLAR for my unit. The code that does that in the file XML_Units/Crusader.xml is this