Im desperate for help :D

[Ahmad13]

Hello everyone ,
i'm seriously hopeless so i decided to post here my problem in case someone has a miracle solution..

ok so my plan was to do a very simple mod for my personal use , just to add a customized civilization with some special buildings and units..just to make the game more fun for me...

i downloaded modbuddy but i have a problem whenever i make a build of my solution
i get this error :

------ Build started: Project: Civ5Mod4, Configuration: Deploy Only x86 ------
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Firaxis\ModBuddy\Civ5Mod.targets(111,9): error MSB4018: The "PackageMod" task failed unexpectedly.
System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path.
   at SevenZip.SevenZipBase.ThrowException(SevenZipBase handler, Exception[] e)
   at SevenZip.SevenZipCompressor.CompressFilesEncrypted(Stream archiveStream, Int32 commonRootLength, String password, String[] fileFullNames)
   at SevenZip.SevenZipCompressor.CompressFilesEncrypted(String archiveName, Int32 commonRootLength, String password, String[] fileFullNames)
   at SevenZip.SevenZipCompressor.CompressFiles(String archiveName, String[] fileFullNames)
   at Firaxis.ModBuddy.Civ5ModBuildTasks.PackageMod.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, TaskHost taskHost, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask, Boolean& taskResult)
========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

intersting fact is when i do a deploy only i still get this error but i actualy have a deployed build of my solution in the firaxis modbuddy folder..

But another problem is that these deployed builds wont ever work , i put them in the mods folder but the mod never works.. or even any manually downloaded mod wont ever work in civilization V the only way is to download them via the mod browser
so my plan B was to download a mod from the mod browser and then modify it it worked but im very limited i cant do everything i want im limited by the structure of the mod even if i add some files and then add manually the "OnModActivated" to the .modinfo file it doesnt work..

im so sorry i know its boring to read all this but im desperate..

thank you all

 

[Nutty]

"Illegal characters in path" sounds like you have a special character in your login name that 7-zip is having a problem with when it zips up the civmod file to your mod directory in "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\..." etc.

 

[Putmalk]

I just restart ModBuddy when this happens. Fixes the problem.

 

[Ahmad13]

"Illegal characters in path" sounds like you have a special character in your login name that 7-zip is having a problem with when it zips up the civmod file to your mod directory in "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\..." etc.

Thanks buddy that helped with solving the builds problem but even so the mod still doesnt work (any mod) i dont know why..

thanks everyone for your answers