Need a bit of help creating the actually mod file/dir and getting it to work.

[Edix]

There is a lot of help, and i thank eveyone who put up guides, to edditing the text files, what the stuff in the text files mean, etc. But I can no for the life of me find a guide on how to create the actual MOD directory correctly so that it works!

I can edit all the files in the default stellairs directory fine. In fact it works. I created a custome empire. It shows up. It plays great. However I can no translate my success in editing the files directly in to a mod folder/structure/dir or whatever I am suppose to do.

I have downloaded some of the mods form the workshop and tried to mimic them but just doesnt seem to work.

Any help in this would be great. A guide for "So you can edit everything but cant get a mod/file/dir to work?" type guide would be great. Or point me too a good mod too look at to try and mimic file structures, mod locations, how to name files, do i need to put everything form the vanilla files or just what i want to add. Arg!

 

[Goldkilla]

To begin to "build" your mod is really easy. Just start the Launcher go to mods>Mod Tools and Create a mod. With a name and pathname for it. There you have your first mod folder with nothing in it and a .mod file.

Path should be Users/yourname/MyDocuments/ParadoxInteractive/Mod

Coming to the structure it is pretty easy. Look at the default stellaris dir. There you have a gfx, music, sound, localisation and more folders. Also there is your structure. The default structure is the same in the mods.

Default Stellaris:

My Mod:


I hope that helps.

 

[Edix]

I have gotten that far.

I found the creat mod tool in the game launcher. Did that.

Learned the file directory structure. Created that.

Copyed what I did in the main game file edit. Moved all my edits to the new directorys in the mod location.

New empire doesnt show up. (It does work if i put them back in to the main stellaris directory)

There is something I am missing? Naming structure of the files in mod vs the ones in main directory? I am cut and pasting what works in the main directory to the mod directory in the same locations as they are in the main directory.

 

[Goldkilla]

I already build 3 new Empires and what I just did, was to create a new 00_prescripted_countries.txt. I called it, thanks to typewrite fails, 00_prescripted_counries.txt and this is working so far.

 

[JScott991]

I'm having this exact same issue. There's some small thing I'm not doing right.

 

[Goldkilla]

try to rename the files from 00_prescripted_countries to 00_prescripted_modname_countries

 

[Edix]

ugh, yeah I have tried pretty much everything but the empire does not show up.

And it is really frustrating because if I copy all the files back over the the Default Stellaris directory and overwrite the vanilla files it works.

Put it in a mod and it doesn't.

If I make a structure like the ones steamworkshop makes, but I do it manually, is that going to mess anything up?

 

[Goldkilla]

It shouldn't, just make a good use of try and error. What I also did for some files, was just to copy them directly from default stellaris to my mod and append stuff in them.

 

[moglus]

Could you upload the actual mod so we can take a look at what the problem might be?

 

[Edix]

Could you upload the actual mod so we can take a look at what the problem might be?

[strike]Sure, how do I do that?[/strike]

NVM I see there is an upload button on the stellaris mod tools.

Uploaded

 

[moglus]

Sure, how do I do that?

well just next to the "post reply" button is a button called "upload a file"
If you press that and select the files is should attach them to your reply when you post it,

 

[Edix]

well just next to the "post reply" button is a button called "upload a file"
If you press that and select the files is should attach them to your reply when you post it,

i guess that prob would be smarter sigh

 

[moglus]

i guess that prob would be smarter sigh

Ahhh, i see the problem.
That "stellaris" folder you have in the "cockroachkingdom" folder shouldn't be there. the mod files should just be directly in the "cockroachkingdom" folder.

Like i did in my mod (the attached file)

 

[Edix]

ugh i just figured it out lol such a simple mistake too

damn you alreayd posted the fix sigh

thanks!

 

[moglus]

ugh i just figured it out lol such a simple mistake too

damn you alreayd posted the fix sigh

thanks!

Sometimes simple mistakes are the hardest to find... (especially when they are your own )

 

[Edix]

now to fix the sol initializer

sigh, it was working

edit: woot fixed

 

[Edix]

Sometimes simple mistakes are the hardest to find... (especially when they are your own )

It is a fact that I am incapable of fixing any of my own mistakes.

 

[Edix]

Well thanks everyone, very first mod I have made in since like doom 1 and 2 first game out (im old).

thanks again,
Edix

 

[JScott991]

I'll have to look into the samples you've posted and see if I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

[JScott991]

I can't figure out why mine won't show up. It's intended to be a simple mod allowing someone to select a human empire that only uses certain portraits.