Quick Start 2016-12-06

[Mynex]

Mynex submitted a new resource:

Quick Start - Mainly for Modders

I get tired of the logo's and My2K and listening to Sean Bean... so thanks to some folks here and on Reddit... I took care of that...

This is also on NexusMods, but I figure more ModMonkeys are here than there, so...

WHAT IT DOES
1. Replaces the starting company video logoes with a 1 second blank screen
2. Removes the My2K logo from the main screen
3. Disables the Firaxis Live/My2K server connections
4. Removes the Sean Bean intro speeches of 'Dawn of Man' and the civilization
-- Sorry...

Read more about this resource...

 

[noisy]

2 quick questions if i may (new here - fanatic civ player though)

Removing Sean Bean's intro speech is really going to affect the loading time of a game or the time required to create a new game???

If yes, is it possible to only do that instead of messing with the game core too much by removing logos and videos etc???

Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english

 

[Mynex]

Removing Sean Bean's audio does NOT speed up game load time.

 

[weregamer]

Yeah, I'd really like to see something that strictly speeds up the process from hitting "play" to getting into a game, and I have a fast internet connection so I doubt the 2K hookup matters to me either.

Could you add instructions confirming my suspicion that I just need to replace the video file if all I want is to get rid of the silly logos?

 

[Mynex]

If you just replace the video file (the .bk2) one, then it does get rid of the company starting logo movies (Firaxis, My2K, and AMD).

 

[Mynex]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Guess I didn't kill him off, but the devs did!

http://kotaku.com/sean-bean-is-sad-..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

 

[Cosmic Fox]

Yo bro thanks for making this, I can't stand Sean Bean, we went from incredibly great Spock, to him, come on he doesn't know what is going on in the game, whether he dies or not. hahahaha!

 

[Thierry Jacques]

I know this kinda comes a little late into this discussion, but here'a another improvement to start the game faster :

You can modify the file Base\Assets\UI\FrontEnd\IntroScreen.lua to skip the 'Continue' button press at the start.

Replace the

Startup();

at the very bottom of the file with

--Startup();
AcceptEULA();

and it will skip the required button press after skipping the logos with the aforementioned method.

Also- In the same folder, you can modify the MainMenu.lua file to have the main menu appear instantly. Change this value :

local PAUSE_INCREMENT = 0;

Finally, I don't know what was the exact impact of this next change I tried, but so far I kept it and the final results still makes the main menu pleasing to use while possibly faster :

The file is MainMenu.xml (still in the same folder), and I changed each instance of 'Speed' to Speed="100", and each instance of 'Pause' to Pause="0".

I am still looking for a way to modify files in order to completely skip the logos ans EULA, and will edit this post if I find the actual way

 

[ancho]

Mac path:
/Users/***YOU***/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI/Civ6.app/Contents/Assets/Base/Assets/UI

 

[raen]

Even if you loose the originals, with steam you can recover files, steam replaces all with original doing this

 

[Moginheden]

I thought I would be able to improve this "mod" by making it an actual mod so it doesn't need to be reinstalled every time the game updates. I tried creating a file called Quickstart.modinfo in a DLC\Quickstart folder and copied all your files into it. Here's what I'd expect would work, but it doesn't seem to. Am I doing something wrong, or do mods just not activate before you load a game?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Mod id="a4c1bd67-0a5c-4541-9a40-75e32168ab10" version="1">
  <Properties>
    <Name>Quickstart</Name>
    <Description>Speeds up game launch.</Description>
    <Teaser>Quickstart speeds up game launch</Teaser>
    <Authors>Mynex, Moginheden</Authors>
    <SpecialThanks>The Civfanatics forums and the Civ fans on Reddit.</SpecialThanks>
    <AffectsSavedGames>0</AffectsSavedGames>
    <CompatibleVersions>1.2,2.0</CompatibleVersions>
  </Properties>
  <Files>
    <File>Assets\UI\FiraxisLive\My2K.lua</File>
    <File>Assets\UI\FrontEnd\LoadScreen.lua</File>
    <File>Assets\UI\FrontEnd\MainMenu.lua</File>
    <File>Assets\UI\FrontEnd\MainMenu.xml</File>
    <File>Platforms\Windows\Movies\logos.bk2</File>
  </Files>
  <Components>
    <ImportFiles id="ModQuickstartImportSettings">
      <Properties>
        <LoadOrder>500</LoadOrder>
      </Properties>
      <Items>
          <File>Assets\UI\FiraxisLive\My2K.lua</File>
          <File>Assets\UI\FrontEnd\LoadScreen.lua</File>
          <File>Assets\UI\FrontEnd\MainMenu.lua</File>
          <File>Assets\UI\FrontEnd\MainMenu.xml</File>
          <File>Platforms\Windows\Movies\logos.bk2</File>
      </Items>
    </ImportFiles>
  </Components>
</Mod>

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Save you some time. Quick Start (Linux, Mac, Windows)

 

[Moginheden]

Ok that one works. Still not sure what I did wrong though. Oh well.