Nexus Buddy 2 - Granny Editor for Civ 5 2.5.3

[Deliverator]

My Granny Viewer crashes whenever I try to load a .gr2 file. Am I missing something?

Granny Viewer won't open the vanilla game .gr2 files until you save them first in Nexus Buddy. This effectively removes some proprietary protection.

 

[Wodhann]

Granny Viewer won't open the vanilla game .gr2 files until you save them first in Nexus Buddy. This effectively removes some proprietary protection.

When I try to open a vanilla game .gr2 in Nexus Buddy it also crashes, though.

EDIT: Ok, not all of them. But it happened when I tried to load up Bismark's model.

 

[Ekmek]

Was it german_bismarck? because I used that one for my Parkes leader head. there is also a bismarck.gr2 there I think which isn't used by the game. a development left over i think.

 

[Wodhann]

Was it german_bismarck? because I used that one for my Parkes leader head. there is also a bismarck.gr2 there I think which isn't used by the game. a development left over i think.

Oh. Yes it was bismarck.gr2, no german_.

 

[bernie14]

just starting to learn this tool but I must say that it is a PLEASURE to work with so far....

 

[Wodhann]

Quick question: How do you load textures in granny viewer?

 

[Nutty]

You don't. That's what you use Nexus Viewer for.

 

[Wodhann]

You don't. That's what you use Nexus Viewer for.

So how do you use Nexus Viewer? I opened up Nexus, then I tried to run Viewer.exe - got the error "the viewer application could not attach to nexus".

 

[Nutty]

You want to launch the Nexus.exe from the old SDK (and not from the SDK launcher). If you haven't yet, you'll need to change a registry entry as recently discussed in this thread.

 

[Wodhann]

Is this the nexus viewer? Because if so, I have no idea how to operate it.

 

[Nutty]

If it's blank after you've attempted to open a unit fxsxml file, that means you're using the broken version from the new SDK.

 

[Wodhann]

If it's blank after you've attempted to open a unit fxsxml file, that means you're using the broken version from the new SDK.

Are you supposed to open it via the Asset Viewer? Because if so, it crashes on me when I load a file through that.

 

[Nutty]

Are you supposed to open it via the Asset Viewer?

Yes. It shouldn't crash if you follow the steps correctly.

 

[Wodhann]

Yes. It shouldn't crash if you follow the steps correctly.

Quoting Denzel Washington in Philadelphia, I'm gonna have to ask you to explain this like I'm 5 years old.

What are the steps for loading up and viewing 3d assets in Nexus Viewer?

 

[Nutty]

What are the steps for loading up and viewing 3d assets in Nexus Viewer?

Let's not clutter this thread anymore with this discussion. There were links talking about this on the previous page of posts in this thread. If you still don't get it after the spoiler below, PM me:

Spoiler :

In three (relatively) easy steps:
1. Extract the old version of Nexus from the SDK linked here.

2. Change one entry in the Registry:
Run regedit.exe, navigate to the following key:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Firaxis\Nexus\Viewer

and change the Executable value to the full path of wherever you extracted the old version of the viewer. It should end with \Nexus\x86\Viewer.exe

3. IMPORTANT: From now on, you need to remember to launch the old version of the Nexus executable (\Nexus\x86\Nexus.exe) instead of using the SDK launcher menu. Just make a shortcut to it on your Desktop (right-click Nexus.exe, choose Send To > Desktop (create shortcut).

 

[Wodhann]

So we talked via PM and Nutty doesn't seems to know why the old nexus is crashing for me - if anyone has any idea, please PM me.

(It would be pretty annoying for me not to be able to preview custom models and always have to blindly apply them to the game in order to see them)

 

[Ekmek]

(It would be pretty annoying for me not to be able to preview custom models and always have to blindly apply them to the game in order to see them)

I just use granny viewer then try in game. It does take longer but the viewer never worked for me either

 

[Wodhann]

I just use granny viewer then try in game. It does take longer but the viewer never worked for me either

Oh. So I'm not the only one.

Guess I will have to do that.

 

[Deliverator]

The source code for Nexus Buddy 2 is now uploaded here.

Anyone is welcome to download, compile it and make what changes or improvements they want.

Notes
1. To compile you will need to make sure your References are properly linked up. The Firaxis ones are included in a folder called ReferencedDLLs. The Microsoft ones should be found in the .NETFramework folder somewhere under Program Files.
2. Once compiled you should copy gr2_viewer.exe from BundledExecutables to the location of NexusBuddy2.0 e.g. under bin/Release. This is in order for Granny Viewer to work when you click View.

The code is not particularly tidy and has various commented out blocks, but hopefully the method names and parameters give a good indication of what is going on.

 

[Wodhann]

So deliverator, did you ever or do you plan looking into custom cameras and lights? Nexus buddy won't even open that kind of file for lack of "meshes" and "animations" so I guess it's not even possible to test this kind of thing.