some question and help for a beginner

[chibirobo1]

ive been trying to mod a new civilization into the game. ive been following Kaels modders guide. for some reason i cant get my civilization appear in the game menu here is the mod in a zip if you guys can help me out i would be forever in your dept

 

[DragonBlood87]

There have been some new fields added to civilizations since Kael's guide was published. If you open up the game's XML files and compare them with yours, it should be pretty easy to see what you need to add.

They are located at:

[Steam install directory]\SteamApps\common\sid meier's civilization v\assets\Gameplay\XML

The files you will need to look at are in the Civilizations and Leaders folders.

 

[sean444]

Hope this helps. I had a lot of problems with my first mod (actually a fix of somebody else's broken mod). While Kael's guide isn't exactly wrong, it hasn't kept up with patch changes.

You've got a couple things mixed up. In general, in the <gamedata> stuff, you need to define the values for objects. Then, in the <Language_en_US> area, you define the text for the objects.

The first big thing I noticed is the city names. In your Civ_Orb.xml you are condensing the steps. You have (as a 1 city example)

<Civilization_CityNames>
<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_ORB</CivilizationType>
<CityName>ORB</CityName>
</Row>
</Civilization_CityNames>

but what you really need is

<Civilization_CityNames>
<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_ORB</CivilizationType>
<CityName>TXT_KEY_ORB_CITY_NAME_CARPENTERIA</CityName>
</Row>
[and all the other cities]
</Civilization_CityNames>

and in GameText.xml

<Language_en_US>
<Row Tag="TXT_KEY_ORB_CITY_NAME_CARPENTERIA">
<Text>Carpentria</Text>
</Row>
[and all the other cities]
</Language_en_US>

Various patches since Kael's guide have made the game very sensitive to duplicate names, so I've found and suggest that you include your Civ name as part of the name of the objects you generate.

The leader's WorkAgainstWillingness and WorkWithWillingness were changed to DenounceWillingness and DoFWillingness. New values are Loyalty, Neediness, Forgiveness, Chattiness, and Meanness.

You are also missing the import to VFS for all your artwork. The December patch requires all artwork to have that value in ModBuddy set to "true".

 

[chibirobo1]

thanks for the help. do i need to apply those traits for the leader if i am making the mod just for me to use not the computer, nor any intentions of releasing it. also for the art work how would i set that to true do i just code in true or is there a special thing i must do. thanks again

 

[Shiggs713]

Hope this helps. I had a lot of problems with my first mod (actually a fix of somebody else's broken mod). While Kael's guide isn't exactly wrong, it hasn't kept up with patch changes.

You've got a couple things mixed up. In general, in the <gamedata> stuff, you need to define the values for objects. Then, in the <Language_en_US> area, you define the text for the objects.

The first big thing I noticed is the city names. In your Civ_Orb.xml you are condensing the steps. You have (as a 1 city example)

<Civilization_CityNames>
<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_ORB</CivilizationType>
<CityName>ORB</CityName>
</Row>
</Civilization_CityNames>

but what you really need is

<Civilization_CityNames>
<Row>
<CivilizationType>CIVILIZATION_ORB</CivilizationType>
<CityName>TXT_KEY_ORB_CITY_NAME_CARPENTERIA</CityName>
</Row>
[and all the other cities]
</Civilization_CityNames>

and in GameText.xml

<Language_en_US>
<Row Tag="TXT_KEY_ORB_CITY_NAME_CARPENTERIA">
<Text>Carpentria</Text>
</Row>
[and all the other cities]
</Language_en_US>

Various patches since Kael's guide have made the game very sensitive to duplicate names, so I've found and suggest that you include your Civ name as part of the name of the objects you generate.

The leader's WorkAgainstWillingness and WorkWithWillingness were changed to DenounceWillingness and DoFWillingness. New values are Loyalty, Neediness,Forgiveness, Chattiness, and Meanness.

You are also missing the import to VFS for all your artwork. The December patch requires all artwork to have that value in ModBuddy set to "true".

unless he's making a mod for multiple languages, simply Carpentria in the CityName field will work, though its not the best modding practices.