Templates Missing

[Genesystem]

Brand new to modding, all the tutorials I've found mention Modbuddy should have a few templates to pick from. The only option I have is a blank solution. Is there a place I need to download them from or some other way to fix this?

 

[Cyphose]

That is... strange. ModBuddy should definitely have a few templates. I'd first try uninstalling and reinstalling it. If that fails, right click the Civ6 Development Tools in Steam, select "Properties", go to the "Local Files" tab at the top, and click "Verify integrity of tool files..."

If all that fails, delve a bit deeper. Again, make like you're going to verify integrity, but this time, click "Browse local files..."

This should bring you to where the Dev Tools installed, which is where everything else in Steam tends to install--Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common. Once you're in the Civ6 SDK folder (you should be already), navigate through folders in the order of /ModBuddy/Extensions/Application.

In the Application folder, there should be two further folders (along with a bunch of other stuff), called ProjectTemplates and ItemTemplates. The templates you're referring to are in ProjectTemplates. If you see that folder, go inside it, to Civ6ModProject/1033. There should be 6 .zip files there (which are the templates). If they're not there, then that's why you can't see them when you start up ModBuddy.

If you'd like, I can upload my own (since I have access to them), but obviously downloading what I have is a lot less secure than downloading from Steam, so that's why I encourage you to uninstall/reinstall/verify integrity (i.e. exhaust other options) before I give you mine.

 

[Genesystem]

I had a chance to dive in and mess around. There are definitely a few zip folders in there. When I unzip them, I can access the xml files individually. If I point to that location to read templates I still get nothing. If I try to open the civproject files that come in the template folders I get an error. Something about guid should contain 32 digits.

 

[Adam Hall]

I have the same problem. I don't see any templates.

 

[mihe]

EDIT: I found the solution: Open ModBuddy to trigger launch Visual Studio, go to Tools, Options, Projects and Solutions and there are 3 paths there. I pasted the zip files in the path for Project templates locations and it is working now. As I expected, it was still using the old VS 2013 location !!

Same problem here.

I have the 8 zip files in D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI SDK\ModBuddy\Extensions\Application\ProjectTemplates\Civ6ModProject\1033, but when I run Modbuddy, I get only blank project.

I am using Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, updated with the latest version. I do also have some remants of old Visual Studio setups like 2013, and 2015, so I guess the problem could be related to that... still I cannot find a solution.

 

[Lonecat Nekophrodite]

^ So where should I unzip this mod template?

 

[Galvatron]

I don't suppose anyone ever figured out what the hell is wrong with this problem... I'm gonna shoot someone, I swear.

 

[raen]

Hi, recently I had this problem, I did not create a new project for ages. I solved it this way:

Copied \steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI SDK\ModBuddy\Extensions\Application\ProjectTemplates\CivModProject folder with all inside to <My Documents>\Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ProjectTemplates

Copied \steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI SDK\ModBuddy\Extensions\Application\ItemTemplates\CivModProject folder with all inside to <My Documents>\Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ItemTemplates

Hope that helps you too.

 

[Galvatron]

Hi, recently I had this problem, I did not create a new project for ages. I solved it this way:

Copied \steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI SDK\ModBuddy\Extensions\Application\ProjectTemplates\CivModProject folder with all inside to <My Documents>\Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ProjectTemplates

Copied \steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI SDK\ModBuddy\Extensions\Application\ItemTemplates\CivModProject folder with all inside to <My Documents>\Visual Studio 2013\Templates\ItemTemplates

Hope that helps you too.

I actually already fixed it by doing pretty much what you said... turns out 'uninstall'doesn't mean what it used to mean apparently!

 

[DeepSoul]

If your paths are pointing to the VS 2013 location change it to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VI SDK\ModBuddy\Extensions\Application\ProjectTemplates

or wherever you have installed Modbuddy.