How to install a mod (again)

[mattyg]

Hi AlanH,
It was a matter of Pouakai not having posted updated G&K versions here, but only at the workshop. He posted the fix needed to the Vanilla version <culture>tags though on his "more wonders" thread. I've gotten the Nazca lines to work now. Thanks for the reply.

Matt

 

[dojoboy]

The line is:

Quote:
Controls.ModsButton:SetHide( true );
Simply add two hyphens like this:

Quote:
-- Controls.ModsButton:SetHide( true );

I did this, via the G&K package, but the Mod button still does not appear. ???

 

[AlanH]

... in both copies of the MainMenu.lua file?

 

[dojoboy]

... in both copies of the MainMenu.lua file?

No, just one spot. I'll look for the other.

I've found no other .lua?

 

[AlanH]

The first of the G&K FAQs (#11?) points to a thread where you have to read down a few posts to find ALL the information. As the situation seems to have stabilised, I should probably put together a single definitive recipe for this stuff now.

 

[dojoboy]

It's just all too confusing for me. I've made the -- before the mod button line in the .lua, however, I no longer have a Civ5.app. It's a Civ5G&K.app.

 

[AlanH]

That's correct. Except there are two MainMenu.lua files to edit now as well.

 

[dojoboy]

That's correct. Except there are two MainMenu.lua files to edit now as well.

Right, but I cannot tell, from all those posts, exactly where the second one is. I have edited the MainMenu.lua file through the G&K.app.

 

[AlanH]

Two posts in short succession in that thread:

The game software is now embedded in a package at

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization v/Civilization V.app

Once you get to this package you can Open Package and it looks like the one that comes from the App Store. So the MainMenu.lua file is at :

Civilization V.app/Contents/Home/assets/UI/FrontEnd/MainMenu.lua

However, I have confirmed that commenting the usual line in this file does not enable the mods menu item. I suspect more drastic surgery may have been done by Aspyr to prevent us from enabling mods on the Mac version.

I've done a BBEdit multi-file scan of the whole Assets directory, and found this file:

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization v/Civilization V.app/Contents/Home/assets/DLC/Expansion/UI/FrontEnd/MainMenu.lua

This has the same code in it as the one we all know and love, and if I edit that one ... the Mods menu pears and show me all my old mods. I'll leave it to others to discover whether any of them still work.

 

[dojoboy]

Two posts in short succession in that thread:

Bingo! Thank you.

 

[Cinematic]

Hello,

After some sweat I managed to follow all steps of helpful directions except this step.

Macintosh Steam Civ 5 (not G&K)

Step 1: Mods typically come as .zip files or .civ5mod files. Ez7z expands either of these. A .zip file can also be expanded in the Finder, just by double clicking it.

Ez7z seems to be a PC only program.

The VEM mod I want to install is a .civ5mod file.

Putting the 900 kb file into the mods folder as instructed and restarting Civ 5 does not make it appear. (File is way too small, but thought it worth a try.)

So far as I can tell, all I'm not doing is expanding the .civ5mod file.

???

thanks in advance,

Cinematic

 

[AlanH]

Hi, welcome

You have to expand the .civ5mod file. The Mac version doesn't know how to read it.

Ez7z is a cross-platform program. Google gives me this link as the first hit for Ez7z

 

[Cinematic]

So it is Mac compatible--my original Google search led to a page that confidently announced the software as PC. This should be the last leg of the journey--I managed to get a map to run, so all I need is to successfully unpack this very cool looking VEM thing.

You da man, AlanH!

--C

 

[Cinematic]

Back to square one--I managed to unpack the VEM mods and put both folders into the MOD folder inside the documents / aspyr / Civ 5 location. (I assume the CivUP folder goes in the MOD folder.)

Nothing appears in the MODS menu, however.

I seem to have followed all the directions in the excellent AlanH instruction list.

???

Only troubleshooting step I've taken so far is to delete the Mod database file.

--C

 

[AlanH]

Have you followed Iamgoofball's instructions, linked in FAQ #13? You have to replace InstalledPanel.xml.

 

[Satchembe]

I honestly must have missed something or I am not doing something correctly....I followed the path from Library all the way to FrontEnd, but when I open the folder, it is empty besides another file that says Multiplayer. I can't seem to view any .lua files at all, they don't appear in the folders.....any insight?

 

[AlanH]

Hi, welcome.

Which path did you follow all the way? And which version of Civ5 are you running?

 

[ArnoldI]

Alan, I went to Application Support in the Library folder, but couldn't find the Civilization V: Campaign Edition folder inside it, do you know what it can be?

 

[AlanH]

On Lion and Mountain Lion it has moved into ~/Library/Containers/com.aspyr.civ5campaign/Data/Library/Application Support/Civilization V Campaign Edition.

Something to do with sandboxing.

 

[ArnoldI]

Can someone help me?
I 've done what is written here, and the "Mods" options appear in the menu, but I con't click on the options and is written in the bottom of the game screen "Invalid Registration Number".
I bought my Civ5 in App Store and when I put the original MainMenu.lua it comes back to normal.
Do you know what to do?