I know this is probably a dumb question, but did you restart the game? I tried modding with the game open, and it won't work until the game is restarted. If that isn't the issue, the next thing I'd look for is a typo.

In any case, I've had no trouble seeing the mods in game--except when I made some kind of mistake and the game generated an error...

I don't mind obvious questions,  but yes I always restart after making a mod in fact I never mod with the game running.

I know dumhead has had the same issue.

I'm open to the idea that I've gone wrong somewhere but I really can't see where.

Would it be possible for someone to link to the zip of a known working mod so I can give that a go just in case, eliminate my xml though I work with xml all the time in my job and have compared carefully to base files so would be suprised.

Thanks for that I'll go flip the pc back on and give that a go. Let you know how it goes shortly. 

No problem. Sorry things aren't working for you...

Derek,

in the Tools subdirectory of my main game folders I found a debug.err file with the following content;

Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Core\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\ExampleMod\Core\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Text\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\ExampleMod\Text\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Campaign\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Core\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\ExampleMod\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Game\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask C:\Users\bclair\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods\Text\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Campaign_01\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Campaign_01\Campaign_01_Scenario_01\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Tutorial\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Tutorial\Tutorial_Refuge\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Campaign_01\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Campaign_01\Campaign_01_Scenario_01\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Tutorial\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Tutorial\Tutorial_Refuge\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Campaign_01\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Campaign_01\Campaign_01_Scenario_01\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Tutorial\Game\*.xml
Debug Message: No files found matching mask ..\Campaigns\Tutorial\Tutorial_Refuge\Game\*.xml

this file looks like is created around the time I tried to run the game with the mod, but the user directory looks wrong my user name is colin so that's the user profile it should be looking under.

There should be more entries in the file from your later attempts (it doesn't overwrite this file like the others).

Mine has the same bclair entires (he's the guy here who makes the builds) and then attempts looking in the correct directories on my machine.

There is a longer debug.err file found in the my games\galciv3 it record the game looking in mods\sfx and another similar folder that I think is graphic related. Never mentions my mod folders I placed in there though including the known good mod I downloaded.

Just looks like its not aware of them somehow.

econundrum1

Make a new folder structure  I used stonehold`s mod for mine,... Take a untouched factiondefs.emll and put it in the game folder change just the racelogo00 for the Terran`s the another one. After that change that file to a read only file so right click on the factiondefs.xml click read only and hit apply. you`ll have to change it back to make any editing to it you want. See if this Works.

I'm a bit stumped by this. PM me your steam id and I will see if I can find a time to ping you and we can work on it together, if you have time.

It really sounds like you have mods disabled in options, but I know you mentioned that you have already checked that.

Also if you can send me your \\my documents\my games\galciv3\debug.err file I would love to check it out.

I'll pm you my steam id soon as I can, though I'm in the uk so we might have a time zone issue. Posting from my phone currently.  Not sure where Dumhed is based.

it is really odd.

The debug.err I posted was from my tools directory there is another one in the mygames\galciv3 Folder. That does search my two specific subdirectories of my mods directory but looking for sound and graphics files. It doesn't mention looking for xml or any of the mods ive tried putting in there I'll post that to dropbox so you can see.

My debug looks exactly like yours (mine doesn't mention my mod directories either, just the audio directories) even though my mods are loading correctly.

I'll be looking for your pm with your steam id. I'm around all the time so I'm sure we will be able to find some time to meet up.

k, I've sent steam friend requests to both of you. Ping me when you get online and we can try to troubleshoot it together.

Thanks!

econundrum, I worked with Derek today on this.  Looks like the problem has to do with how the game is reading the a space in the user name within the Windows file system.  Mine, for instance has a space and the game doesn't like that.  Anyway, they'll have to modify the DataCompiler batch file.  

Anyway, I edited the batch file and... tada!  mods work.   

In the batch file there is a line:

SET moddir=%docsdir%\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods

Change it to:

SET moddir=%HOMEPATH%\Documents\My Games\GalCiv3\Mods

This should only work on Windows Vista and later (not on other OSs). There can be challenges if you have things pointing to different locations in your registry.  In which case, they need to code in something that refers to shell directories in the registry, maybe.  There are probably many ways to fix it; some less elegant than others.  I'm sure they'll come up with something will work universally and for other OSes.

 Edit:

Also, to get other parts of the mod to work, you'll need to change the same line in other batch files in the Tools directory... Particle, Core, and Campaign compilers.