Loading My Mod
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ww2commander
Emperor
Without knowing specifically what you have done or how things are setup:
1. You need to build the mod via ModBuddy. This should automatically place it in your Mods folder under your My Documents section of your C drive.
2. Load Civ V and click on Mods.
3. Click on Browse and then a list of mods will appear. If things are done right via ModBuddy, then your mod should appear in the list.
4.Tick the green box to the right of the name and then click back.
5. Click start game and it should load your mod after going through the setup steps (your new/changed civ should appear in the list to choose). If it does not load then you might have problems with the changes you made (errors, typos, etc.). Unfortunately to resolve this would require more info.
You can also manually copy downloaded mods from Civ Fanatics into your My Documents mod folder. The full path should be something like:
C:\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\Mods
Hope this helps.
1. You need to build the mod via ModBuddy. This should automatically place it in your Mods folder under your My Documents section of your C drive.
2. Load Civ V and click on Mods.
3. Click on Browse and then a list of mods will appear. If things are done right via ModBuddy, then your mod should appear in the list.
4.Tick the green box to the right of the name and then click back.
5. Click start game and it should load your mod after going through the setup steps (your new/changed civ should appear in the list to choose). If it does not load then you might have problems with the changes you made (errors, typos, etc.). Unfortunately to resolve this would require more info.
You can also manually copy downloaded mods from Civ Fanatics into your My Documents mod folder. The full path should be something like:
C:\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\Mods
Hope this helps.
Thank you, that does help.
The mod was not in C:\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\Mods, but was in C:\My Documents\Firaxus ModBuddy folder.
I copied the Armenia folder (the new civilization) from Firaxis ModBuddy into the Sid Meiers Civilization 5\Mods folder, which succeeded in putting the Mod on my Installed list in Civ V. However, the mod did not add the civilization to the game, so I screwed up somewhere else.
I'll get this eventually.
The mod was not in C:\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meiers Civilization 5\Mods, but was in C:\My Documents\Firaxus ModBuddy folder.
I copied the Armenia folder (the new civilization) from Firaxis ModBuddy into the Sid Meiers Civilization 5\Mods folder, which succeeded in putting the Mod on my Installed list in Civ V. However, the mod did not add the civilization to the game, so I screwed up somewhere else.
I'll get this eventually.
ww2commander
Emperor
If that is the case, then your best approach (if you have not done so yet) is to download and read through Kael's Modders Guide to Civ 5. He has a very good section on how to mod Civs.
I followed this guide on the very first day I started modding and within a week I had figured out around 70% of the games mechanics and modding approaches (XML, SQL and a little bit of LUA).
If you want to know what might have caused the problem then browse to the same My Documents folder but this time look in the 'Logs' folder instead of 'Mods'. There should be a file called Database.
This is a text file, open it with Notepad and have a look at what it sayS. Towards the end you will see a whole bunch of long lines which normally indicates things in XML that did not execute correctly.
If you want, you can post the text here using the 'code' snippet option (preserves the code structure on the webpage) and I might take a guess as to what you might need to look at to fix the problem.
Can't garauntee I will fix it but two sets of eyes are better than one (and I know how it feels when first starting to mod this game...its initially very fustrating!).
I followed this guide on the very first day I started modding and within a week I had figured out around 70% of the games mechanics and modding approaches (XML, SQL and a little bit of LUA).
If you want to know what might have caused the problem then browse to the same My Documents folder but this time look in the 'Logs' folder instead of 'Mods'. There should be a file called Database.
This is a text file, open it with Notepad and have a look at what it sayS. Towards the end you will see a whole bunch of long lines which normally indicates things in XML that did not execute correctly.
If you want, you can post the text here using the 'code' snippet option (preserves the code structure on the webpage) and I might take a guess as to what you might need to look at to fix the problem.
Can't garauntee I will fix it but two sets of eyes are better than one (and I know how it feels when first starting to mod this game...its initially very fustrating!).
Spatzimaus
Mad Scientist
That's not the right way to do it. You should never be moving files by hand.
When you create a mod, it'll be in the ModBuddy folder. Inside ModBuddy, you use the Build command; this copies all of the files over to the Mods folder, just like you did, but it ALSO creates a number of additional files, most notably the .modinfo and .package files. The game needs that .modinfo file to actually use the mod, and the .package file is a compressed version of your mod that can be uploaded for other people. (There are options for doing a build without making a packaged version, or doing a build that ONLY makes the packaged version. But the default is to make both packaged and unpacked versions.)
You NEED to use the Build command inside ModBuddy. Go read Kael's modding guide for more information, but this isn't something you can skip by moving things by hand.
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