MY Add a Civ Tutorial

[civaddict098]

this thing should be sticky....

well any way, im having trouble with my flag. All the white on the flag turns the color of my civilization, is there any way to sto pthis and keep it white?

 

[TheMan232]

well any way, im having trouble with my flag. All the white on the flag turns the color of my civilization, is there any way to sto pthis and keep it white?

Yeah, I had that problem too at first. The solution: open the Civ4ArtDefines_Civilization XML file (in Mods\<your civ>\Assets\XML\Art). Find your civ's Infos (mine are at the bottom, makes editing a whole lot easier), and fix the last line:

<bWhiteFlag>0</bWhiteFlag>

to

<bWhiteFlag>1</bWhiteFlag>

That should fix it.

 

[civaddict098]

sweet, thank you so much!

 

[BFD8656]

Hey,

I have some problems with GameTextInfos_PL.XML file... when I loading my mod I have error in that XML ( attached file ). Can someone help me plz?

It says it's error at line 1,1... but first line is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Everything else works correctly... but without that file I got same TXT_KEY...

I had the same problem but am not sure how to fix it. What did you do?

 

[BFD8656]

Nevermind. . . it took awhile but once I used the game file then I could find everything from there!

 

[KiddFlow]

Do i have to use a DDS file to put in a still picture for a leaderhead? Or can i use a bitmap and a jpeg image? If i can use these othere image types, how do i get it to read the picture??? Everything works except i have no pictures as my leaders! Just pink backgrounds!

 

[erikg88]

Yeah, Kidd, you have to use a .dds sized 512x512 for leaderheads. If you don't have a program that lets you create .bmps, try googling DXTBmp. That should do the trick.

 

[cskidd359]

all my leaders and units and cities have that txt_key.... does anyone know how to fix it?

 

[galinew]

all my leaders and units and cities have that txt_key.... does anyone know how to fix it?

You need to add a file at XML/Text/Civ4GameText_X.xml (You choose what X is.) Then add the entries for the related fields. For example:

<TEXT>
<Tag>TXT_KEY_LEADER_WILLIAM</Tag>
<English>William I</English>
</TEXT>

I myself am having trouble with the stupid flag.

With:

1) bWhiteFlag set to 1 and a black alpha I get a blank white flag.
2) bWhiteFlag set to 0 and a black alpha I get a unicolor flag w/ my civ color.
3) bWhiteFlag set to 1 and a white alpha I get my flag w/ my civ colors.
4) bWhiteFlag set to 0 and a white alpha I get the same as 3.

The problem is that I want what I've drawn, not one with my civ colors. It seems to be an coding problem, but I can't figure out what I've done wrong.

 

[galinew]

It seems to be an coding problem, but I can't figure out what I've done wrong.

Well, I figured it out. If you have a custom color combination [Civ4PlayerColorInfos.xml] then it automatically applies the colors to your flag.

 

[Napoliean]

Crap trial. The image part was good, after that your explanation get crappy. I mean sometimes you don't even say in what looking the files is going to be, and sometimes you do. But I'll give you credit on the image stuff that worked fine.

I think you should post screen shots of the files you're editing and then highlight the parts which we need to edit.

 

[Napoliean]

They are saying that Civ4 is the most moddable game, but it's so hard to do it!!!
Just think of Civ3, you just open up the Editor, click Edit Rules, Civilization, Add, and you simply type in the city names, leader,...

IT'S SO HARD TO ADD A NEW CIV!
I couldn't even read the whole tutorial without getting bored.
It will take ages for me to learn how to do it!

I know what you mean. I think we the mean easy to mod, they mean easy to mod for ppl who know XML and other languages.

I mean its not hard to make a goddamn application for the game that will render adding new civs in rather then pissing around with XML files. Am just pissed off right now, I've spent 6 hrs trying to add a new civ, and no luck. I've give up.

 

[osirael]

When i load up the mod there is no error msgs but when i go to select my new civ the program crashes.

http://members.cox.net/mkrogh1/kansasmod.zip

There is the mod so could someone please take a quick look at in and tell me where i screwed up, i thought that i followed the tutorial well but i must not have.

EDIT:
I was playing around a bit and found that it only crashes when i start a normal game, if i do custom game i can play but when i do the pop up box at the begining is blank. So I'm thinking something is wrong with the leaderhead pic or info.

 

[Mozza]

Great stuff, thanks

The Mancunians will be marching soon

 

[Mozza]

OK, I will be uploading my first Civ once I get the Civilopedia entries sorted (and no I wasn't sad enough to actually do a Mancunian Civ, well not yet anyway). This tuturial is brilliant, there's a couple of typos but I got 'round them easily enough.

Does anyone know, is it possible to prevent a civ from building one particular unit?

 

[flyingsquirrel]

I got everything (except the flags it comes out as just green and black) to work.
But I wanted something extra...
How do you use custom music in diplo or city closeups? I think I found a source in Audio2Dscripts


Does anyone have any ideas?

here's what i do:
copy that entire thing, along with AS2D_DIPLO_WASHINGTON_LATE and
AS2D_DIPLO_WASHINGTON_MIDDLE,
paste and rename....like this:
AS2D_DIPLO_YOURLEADERNAME_EARLY
AS2D_DIPLO_YOURLEADERNAME_MIDDLE
AS2D_DIPLO_YOURLEADERNAME_LATE

then, on the "DIPLO_WASHINGTON_EARLY/middle/late..."
change "WASHINGTON" to your leader's name.

then go to "AudioDefines.xml"
find "diplo_whatever_early/mid/lat"
copy those and rename....

then select 3 of your fav. songs and put them here:
...\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Assets\Sounds\Diplomacy
you dont need to rename the song like all the others, but you might want to to make it easier for the next step:

in AudioDefines:
On <filename>blah</filename>
cut ONLY the old song's NAME and ONLY put in your song NAME.leave the rest of the directory clean...

post any errors or correct me if you know better stuff.

 

[esnaz]

Could someone try to help me out with my mod/civ? I can load up my mod without an error message, but when you choose the civ it's kind of messed up...

I used Jecrell's Carthage mod as a base, so I could see what was needed. As of now, Carthage is still in my mod, but only temporarilly. I want to keep it in now because I need to figure out how to get 2 different custom civs working at the same time for when I make my second civ. Once I get my second civ working in place of Carthage, Carthage won't be in it anymore.
I have both of my civ's and Carthage civ's GameTextInfos XML files in the Assets\XML\Text folder because I wasn't sure how to make it into one GameTextInfos XML file. The screenshot above was when I had my civ's XML file only in the folder. When I have both of the XML files in the folder at the same time, I can't load any new civ's. HERE is my mod so far...hopefully someone can figure what's wrong. Thanks.

i had the exact same problem!!

also, my graphics wouldn't load or antything and it wouldn't register my unique unit!!!

 

[esnaz]

I had a problem when the leader and stuff isn't even showing!! it's very annoying

 

[esnaz]

You need to add a file at XML/Text/Civ4GameText_X.xml (You choose what X is.) Then add the entries for the related fields. For example:

<TEXT>
<Tag>TXT_KEY_LEADER_WILLIAM</Tag>
<English>William I</English>
</TEXT>

I myself am having trouble with the stupid flag.

With:

1) bWhiteFlag set to 1 and a black alpha I get a blank white flag.
2) bWhiteFlag set to 0 and a black alpha I get a unicolor flag w/ my civ color.
3) bWhiteFlag set to 1 and a white alpha I get my flag w/ my civ colors.
4) bWhiteFlag set to 0 and a white alpha I get the same as 3.

The problem is that I want what I've drawn, not one with my civ colors. It seems to be an coding problem, but I can't figure out what I've done wrong.

I have a solution too...

if you just do this: in CIV4CivilizationInfos...:
<City>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_JERUSALEM</City>
etc.

it will turn up like that

if you go to texts then CIV4GameTextInfos_Cities...:
<TEXT>
<Tag>TXT_KEY_CITY_NAME_JERUSALEM</Tag>
<English>Jerusalem</English>
etc.

then it will turn up like that for the game!!


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~``
for the leader and civ name etc. go to objects...

then do

<TEXT>
<Tag>LEADER_YOURLEADER</Tag>
<English>Your Leader</English>
<French>Your Leader</French>
<German>Your Leader</German>
<Italian>Your Leader</Italian>
<Spanish>Your Leader</Spanish>
</TEXT>

and do the same for Units and your Civ name/desc

 

[ownagehamster76]

I've been working on a mod that makes me a leader of my own civ. I followed the tutorial, but when I finished it the game still doesn't recognize it. It will load the mod, but won't have any of the changes. I attached it here. Please help!

P.S: I made a custom Scientific trait that I am using. The only person I set to it is myself. Also, I wrote this mode over the Czech mode, replacing everything with the appropriate names. Any help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!