Help with creating new rpks

[Kevgor]

Hello modders! I've been playing Planetfall since release and enjoying it enormously. I've been using the modding tools quite a bit to play around and make balance (or imbalance) tweaks. For editing existing rpks, I've found the tools to be straightforward and easy to use. However, I haven't had any success adding new rpks.

Currently, I'm trying to add a new hero skill. I haven't been able to get anything from a new rpk to show up in game. There is an existing mod, Kensei Seraph's Increased Range, which does exactly what I'm trying to do. I've downloaded the mod and looked at its contents, and for the life of me I can't figure out what they're doing differently from me. I even tried just copying Seraph's rpks into my own mod and bizarrely, nothing showed up.

Thus far, this is what I have done:
1) Created new rpk called New_Hero_Skills.
2) Copied over all the components of the "Stubborn" Dvar hero skill to make sure I'm not missing anything in the ability settings.
3) Made sure my rpk has all the same dependencies as HeroSkills_SpeciesDvar
4) No hero skill shows up in game.

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Kevgor]

Update: I've figured out how to get content to show up in game. In the package manager, you need to go to Content/Resource Packs and add the new rpks to the Required tab. I'm still finding the process quite finicky. Some things will show up, but not work (i.e. modded commander loadouts will show up as an option in the character creation menu, but will just give default items in game).