My Civ V Mod Won't Work

Axrye · May 10, 2014

I have written A code (mainly based of pg 26 onwards in this guide http://kael.civfanatics.net/files/ModdersGuide.pdf) adding a custom leader and Civ to the game. Please can somebody look through my code and tell me what's wrong. I have all the expansions for Civ from steam. The civ appears in the civilizations section of the civlopedia but with the wrong name, and art no description and crashes my game when I click on it. Any help is hugely apprechiated, thanks!

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Browd · May 10, 2014

Moderator Action: Moved to Creation & Customization forum, and code placed in more user-friendly spoiler tags.

LeeS · May 10, 2014

Please follow this link to see how to attach a copy of your mod to your post.

It makes things so much easier for us to see a copy of your mod than to parse through so many lines of code all pasted together. Errors and such that we'd know to look for will stand out better.

That having been said, and because it's a little hard to read such a large block of text, I don't see where you have added any unique buildings, units, or terrain improvements to your civ. I could be overlooking them because of all the code all piled into one long document, but I don't think so. They don't appear to be there. You always need at least two uniques for every civ. Any combination of units, buildings, or terrain improvements can be used, but there must be at least two for every civ. I'm not saying this is your only problem, but I think it is one of your problems.

Please please follow the link to Whoward69's tutorial so you can attach your mod to this thread.

AW Arcaeca · May 10, 2014

As I've said many times on this forum:
To quote king of modding whoward69:

whoward69 said:
Trying to guess what you may or may not have done based on your descriptions is nigh on impossible. Please zip your mod (the one in the MODS sub-directory, not the ModBuddy project) and attach it to your post so we can read the actual files.

Check your logs (you'll have to enable them first; tutorial shows how) and attach your mod. It's approximately 13,467,928.017 times easier to diagnose your problem with the actual, full coding in front of us, and having the logs to tell us exactly what's wrong.

Also, coding on the forum is - more seriously this time - about 50x easier to read if you wrap it in

Code:

 blocks, i.e. [.CODE] before the coding and [./CODE] after it (without the periods).

Axrye · May 11, 2014

Here is the code, hopefully it's easier to read.

Axrye · May 11, 2014

I also haven't added any custom building or units, I'm going to add them later, I just want the civilization to show up correctly and the leader to appear in the 'select leader' tab. Thanks again for your help

whoward69 · May 11, 2014

Axrye said:
I also haven't added any custom building or units, I'm going to add them later,

LeeS said:
I don't see where you have added any unique buildings, units, or terrain improvements to your civ. You always need at least two uniques for every civ.

Axrye said:
I just want the civilization to show up correctly and the leader to appear in the 'select leader' tab.

Which is why your civ doesn't show up, you don't have the required uniques, so the UI code crashes. You can borrow the uniques from other civs, but you must have two.

Axrye · May 11, 2014

OK, so i'll add some unique units but that doesn't explain why the civilization is showing up wrong in the civlopedia

Axrye · May 11, 2014

whoward69 said:
Which is why your civ doesn't show up, you don't have the required uniques, so the UI code crashes. You can borrow the uniques from other civs, but you must have two.

Also please can you email me the code to your mods, I can't figure out how to access it once it's downloaded, so I can adapt it with my ideas. If that's OK with you.

Axrye · May 11, 2014

I'll PM you my email address

whoward69 · May 11, 2014

Axrye said:
Also please can you email me the code to your mods,

No.

Axrye said:
I can't figure out how to access it once it's downloaded

You need to figure it out - there is plenty of info on how to ... including the home page of my web site

Axrye · May 11, 2014

I've downloaded your mod, but can't work out how to access the code, that's why I wanted you to email it to me, if you know how please can you tell me, thanks

LeeS · May 11, 2014

The following would add two unique units to Rome. As a temporary expediant you'll have to change Civilization Rome to the name of your civ. And it does not much matter which file you put this code into.

Code:

<GameData>
	<Civilization_UnitClassOverrides>
		<Row>
			<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_ROME</CivilizationType>
			<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_MUSKETMAN</UnitClassType>
			<UnitType>UNIT_AMERICAN_MINUTEMAN</UnitType>
		</Row>
		<Row>
			<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_ROME</CivilizationType>
			<UnitClassType>UNITCLASS_TANK</UnitClassType>
			<UnitType>UNIT_GERMAN_PANZER</UnitType>
		</Row>
	<Civilization_UnitClassOverrides>
<GameData>

My advice would be to download off steam one of the literally dozens of custom civs that have added new unique units or buildings, and then study how a couple of those mods are adding these buildings or units as a unique for a new civ. Once steam downloads a mod to your My Documents/Sid Meier's Cvilization V/MODS folder, you can look at the files within any mod. There are also tutorials for just about anything you want to do in CIV5 in the Tutorials and References sub-forum (the place where you originally started this thread). A year ago I knew bubkiss about modding in CIV5. I didn't know about all the pretty tutorials available on this site or elsewhere around the internet. I used the "download and study" method I described to learn nearly everything that can be learned about buildings and wonders. But I did have to study, and I did have to work at it.

whoward69 · May 11, 2014

Axrye said:
I've downloaded your mod, but can't work out how to access the code, that's why I wanted you to email it to me, if you know how please can you tell me, thanks

You download it, you unpack it, you make any changes with an editor, you rebuild it, you copy it back to the directory and then use it.

And if you think that answer is vague, I suggest you re-read your question

Axrye · May 12, 2014

OK, thanks for the advice LeeS, I've added the code and changed the civ name I'll try it out now.

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