Relevance of Civ VI Mods

[LilBudyWizer]

I'm new to modding Civ. Civ 7 is new so there's not a lot of documentation available. Civ 6 has been out for 8 years and there's a whole lot more documentation there. I understand they switched from lua to javasript and everything is now an HTML document. I'm inclined to think though the language changed it still largely works the same, but since I never modded Civ I don't know. I was hoping maybe some with experience modding both Civ 6 and Civ 7 might give their opinion whether Civ 6 tutorials and documentation would have any relevance to Civ 7 modding.

 

[Smayo]

I have experience with both now. I can say the database modding with SQL and XML remains mostly the same, bar some new stuff, and principles in VI will hold up in VII.

On the UI side, the switch in UI from Lua to Javascript has meant theres a lot of differences, but there are still underlyinh similarities, for example the UnitPanel.lua is very similar to unit-actions.js. But mostly I would ignore anything in lua files for VI when thinking about VII.