Complete newbie, can't get anything to work

[omnilynx]

I'm trying to follow this tutorial on adding UI elements. I've followed every step faithfully through the first part of dialog 1 (ie. to the end of page 3 of the first pdf). I can see the mod in the mod list and it activates without error. But when I start a new game, there is no "hello world" anywhere. It's like the game is completely ignoring my mod.

Looking at the mod wiki brought me to this page, which is a bit confusing but I believe it means that I need to set "Import into VFS" on Dialog.xml and Dialog.lua, which I did. However, this did not fix the problem.

I've tried various fixes and searched around for an answer, but I can't figure it out. It's kind of aggravating as I am a professional developer and this seems like it should be extremely easy, but somehow I'm missing something.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[whoward69]

The VFS page is wrong, neither the xml file nor the lua file need VFS=true setting - it (usually) doesn't cause any problems if you do, but it is not required.

Are you sure you're actually starting a game from the Mods menu - after you enable the mod(s) you MUST click the Next button (and not the Back button) - see Step 8 of http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=465972

 

[omnilynx]

Thank you, that appears to have been it. I was actually clicking "next" and getting to the "Mods in use" screen, and then backing all the way out to the main menu (I didn't know the "Single Player" text was a button). I thought my mod was activated because when I went back into the mod menu after backing out, it was checked.

Does this mean that every new game I want to start with my mod has to go through the "Mods" menu? I can never just click "Single Player" from the main menu and have the mod automatically active?

Also, what files do I need to add to the VFS, if any?

 

[whoward69]

Does this mean that every new game I want to start with my mod has to go through the "Mods" menu? I can never just click "Single Player" from the main menu and have the mod automatically active?

See the note in red at the very top of that post

Also, what files do I need to add to the VFS, if any?

For the tutorials, it tells you, but IIRC none until you get to adding graphic (dds) files.

 

[omnilynx]

Oh, right. Well, that's too bad.

Thanks for your help!