Mods not working

[Virtual Alex]

I wanted to try playing some BotS mods like Final Frontier and Defense but they don't work right. When I load them and make a new game there is no HUD. I have a feeling this problem is related to installing the BUG mod because when I was having trouble installing it I had the same problem, lack of HUD on the standard game. Altohugh now the BUG mod works fine on standard Civ, the BotS mods aren't loading.

Anything I can do?

 

[AlanH]

First you need to ensure that the new mod you are trying works on its own. If so, then the problem is that it needs to be merged with BUG so that they can play nicely together. You may be able to get help with merging them by searching or asking in the main BUG questions thread

Failure of the user interface is normally a sign that the Python code in a mod is failing to initialise. You can debug this sort of problem by enabling logging - there's a setting in the ~/Documents/Civilization Beyond the Sword/CivlizationIV.ini file that you can edit using TextEdit, TextWrangler, etc. Then try to load the mods and look at the ~/Documents/Civilization Beyond the Sword/Mods/PythonErr.log text file for clues.

 

[Virtual Alex]

I put my old assets folder back (the one without BUG) and the mods all worked. it's no big deal I'll just play with the mods without BUG and put it back when I am ready.

 

[s.bernbaum]

I have BUG installed in Custom Assets and can run Final Frontier fine. The way I do it is by following this advice:

"Do you have anything installed in your CustomAssets directory, like BUG, by any chance? If you do, you'll have to edit the Final Frontier.ini file so that:

Code:
; Custom XML and Python from user folder are not loaded
NoCustomAssets = 0

is set to 1."

I've lost track of who gave this advice, so I can't give credit for it.

In other words, find the line "NoCustomAssets = 0" in the Final Frontier.ini file and change the 0 to 1. BUG will not be operating in Final Frontier but you will still have it available in all other games. Final Frontier has it's own ini file, since it is essentially, a bonus game included with CIV rather than a scenario.