ModBuddy Actions panel

[code99]

Hello, first of all, if this question has been asked already i apologize but i looked everywhere for it and couldnt find it.

To the point, I'm making my own mod for CIV5 and ofc ive read pretty much all guides i found about modding civ 5 (Including the modding guide by Derek "Kael" Paxton) and i obviously saw that in order to use my mods i make with modbuddy i must first add the files i created/modified to the Actions tab in modbuddy :

In other words, this.

I dont have anything against it but when i have to add 20+ files (on larger mods) it gets quite boring and tedious work. So, i was wondering, isnt there a way to skip this ? some kind of workaround ?
And as i have the habit of organizing my work to such extent that i end up with loads of folders and sub folders, the path to the files gets long and it takes me ages to add them to the actions tab.

EDIT : i just realized i made the topic in the wrong forum :| sry
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function.

Thanks

 

[code99]

no one knows anything about this ?

 

[PawelS]

Well, I guess you can edit your .civ5proj file as text, and add new actions using copy/paste, but I'm not sure if it's a faster method...

 

[code99]

Ok thanks, also, do i have to add other files aswell or just XML files ? I got some lua, sql and some dds files in my mod, should i add them to the actions tab ?

Thank you.

 

[PawelS]

SQL and XML files that update GameData should go to the actions tab.

All files that replace the original ones, and all DDS files should have "Import into VFS" set to true.

LUA files that don't replace the original ones should be added to the Content tab.

 

[code99]

Thanks, altho it seems that i dont have the "import into vfs" option when i click on proprieties of the files.

 

[PawelS]

It's possible that it doesn't fit in the properties window, so you have to use the scrollbar, or resize the window.

 

[Pazyryk]

I made a utility ModBBF that does almost but not quite what you ask for. I made it specifically to add many 100s of dds art files outside of ModBuddy. (ModBuddy takes minutes to add >10 large [.5 M] dds files, my script takes seconds to add 200.) Because I made it to add art files, it only adds to .modinfo under the Files section (with import=1) and not to the Actions section. What you need is for it to add to both sections (with import=0 in the Files section).

I thought about making the utility more generic to handle different kinds of files that are added in different ways, but there has been little interest in the thread. Please post in the linked thread if you are interested in this change. (The utility is written in Perl, but it's free and I included download instructions.)