load up My_Mod.pack ?

[BRUTUS32]

Ok,

I have the editor; used it; completed the my_mod.pack; but what do I do from there ????? I got the mod manager but there is no box to check; like in the picture; someone please help me; I can use the editor save it but how do i load it ?????????

[Demokritos]

If your mod is in patch format, it won't show in the Mod Manager. To see what format your mod is in, open it with the Pack File Manager, right-click on its name, and select "Change Pack Type" on the list that appears. If there's no tick in front of the Mod alternative there, mark the Mod alternative, save and exit. Now start the Mod Manager, untick the box for "Show all pack types" under the Launch button to the left, and then tick the box for your mod in the list of mods (which you've installed in the data folder) that subsequently appears to the right. Now Launch the game with your mod in operation.

But you don't need the Mod Manager to activate your mod. You can enter a command line with the name of your mod in the user.empire_script, too, in the following manner...

mod "my_mod.pack";

...save in Unicode, exit the script file and launch ETW the normal way through Steam.

All said assuming that you have placed your mod in the data folder of ETW.

[sysy16]

I have got to the point where the mod manager shows My_mod.pack and I can load it but none of the changes appear to have taken effect in the game even after following exactly the step by step in the DBeditor post......

Its so frustrating!

[Demokritos]

I have got to the point where the mod manager shows My_mod.pack and I can load it but none of the changes appear to have taken effect in the game even after following exactly the step by step in the DBeditor post......

Its so frustrating!

This may be due to your mod conflicting with (using the same files as) an other mod. You can see which files your mod are conflicting with in the Mod Manager and also change the order in which the mods load there, the one loading last will override the ones before it. But if you see the effect of your mod after a change here, it ought to mean that some other mod has lost its effect. If you want to keep that effect, too, then you may have to integrate your mod with the other.