wanabe modder/scenario help

[Civ4newbie]

Hi, I would like to learn how to mod. I am not a programmer and wont use the SDK as only people who know C++ can use it. I have python and xml but of course, I dont know how to use them. I want to create mods just for myself for now but if I ever get good enoughf, I will make a mod for the public. is there a Ultimate guide for how to mod for "non-programmers"?

Also, I created a scenario but I cant get the dawn of man video to play while the game is loading or after the game loads. I went elseware to get help for this problem and got the code that you type in python for the dawn of man video to work with my scenario. I went into the python GUI and was told to look in the ongamestart()CvEventManager.py. somewhere in python which I couldnt find. I was given a python code and typed that code into the main python screen and then saved it. I then loaded my scenario but didnt see the dawn of man so no luck there. Can someone please tell me how to get the dawn of man video to work in my scenario. the map that I made allows the white window to go everwhere across the map but I would like to be able to have the map to where you cant go across any of the edges and corners of the map. how do you do that?

 

[woodelf]

Follow my sig to the Tutorial Index thread. Lots of basic info there for modding.

Start small and work from there.

 

[Civ4newbie]

I found Gingerbread mans tutorial usefull as it helped me get a little further. I opened the my games file in my documents and then whent into the beyond the sword file/custom assets/python and created my own CvCustomEventManager.py file. After that i created a notepad file in the CvCustomEventmanager.py file and copy/pasted the python code in the notepad file then saved the notpad naming it with a .py at the end. I whent into python IDLE and opened the named.py file, pressed F5 and saved the new python file into the named.py which overwrote it. I read through
Gingerbread mans python tutorial lessons but couldnt find anything that tells you how to get a python file with code in it to load into a cutom scenario/mod so that the code will work in the game or in other words do what I want it to do which is to get the dawn of man intro movie to play in the beginning of the game. Either Gingerbread mans tutorial doesnt have the derections that I am looking for or it is in there but I missed it somewhere. In the thread index, I looked at the adding intro movies but that didnt help. the civ4 tutorial index is great and I am thankfull for it's existence but I just cant find what I am looking for. please make a link to where there are derections in the civ4 tutorial index explaining how to get a python file with a code in it to load in the game. If the derections are not in the index then please explain to me how to do this.