No Opening Slideshow when using Mods

It never plays to me at all - mod or not.
 
Could anyone just confirm or deny that their game behaves the same way? I'm running 3.17, when I load a mod, I do NOT get the In The Beginning slideshow.

If I load up the game regulary, I do get the In The Beginning slideshow.

What are other people's experience on this?

Cheers,
ripple01
 
ripple01 said:
Could anyone just confirm or deny that their game behaves the same way? I'm running 3.17, when I load a mod, I do NOT get the In The Beginning slideshow.

If I load up the game regulary, I do get the In The Beginning slideshow.

What are other people's experience on this?

Cheers,
ripple01
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I am playing 3.17 and I never get it. Mod or not, it won't come up.

If I go back and put in the CIV IV normal CD, I get it.

I really want it with Beyond the Sword 3.17, and honestly it is getting really annoying. It's there, I just don't know how to "activate" it for BTS.

Let me know if you find anything, please.:)
 
The slideshow isn't shown for me, too. I guess this is not a bug.
 
Anyone?

I will be your new best friend if you can just explain to me how to have the slideshow "In the Beginning..." working with 'Beyond the Sword.'

Please...anyone?

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
I too have never seen it in BTS. Ever. Doesn't matter whether I choose MOD, Custom Game, Play Now, etc. I had honestly forgotten it existed until this topic... If ripple01 hadn't already said he gets it with normal BTS games, I'd have claimed it's impossible. :p

For what it's worth, the slides themselves are in Art\Interface\Screens\progressscreen. I can't find any reference at all to the images anywhere in Python though so it's probably handled by the engine.
 
The images are referenced in two XML files : XML/Interface/Civ4SlideShowInfos.xml and Civ4SlideShowRandomInfos.xml. I've changed these to refer to the custom images I'm using; I just can't figure out how to tell the game "Hey, load up the slideshow when the mod loads!!!"

If anyone has any ideas or insights, please post them...

Cheers,
ripple01
 
I did some experimenting and i get the feeling it only plays if the game is 100% unmodded - i.e. empty CustomAssets as well. Just installing Blue Marble Terrain removes the slideshow.
 
Interesting; I know that in vanilla Civ4 at least it was possible to use a slideshow in a mod. Sevo did it in his popular SevoMod. I've looked through his code but didn't see anything that stuck out at me. Unfortunately, he is long gone from the forums...

Cheers,
ripple01
 
Firaxis changed the slideshow so that it only shows up with an unmodded game when you haven't skipped past any of the movies that show before the menu with BtS. It may be possible to reenable it with the SDK but I'm guessing it's with the engine. It should be possible to create your own - just look at the Afterworld scenario.
 
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