How To Install Mods Outside Of Steam For Mac
Outside of the Steam directory. With or without mods. Have you tried running the vcredist from the civilization 5 installation folder manually as an admin? How To Manually Install Civ 5 Mods Read/Download The 4th Unique Component Project is a mod that gives every civilization a 4th unique Games/Sid. For visual learners that need to see it done (like me!). How to download and apply the SMAPI to your steam version of stardew valley. Also how to add a mod to your stardew valley (needs to be.
This question comes up over and over again, because the information is scattered around the forum. Aspyr do not support or even display the ability to run mods on their Mac port of Civ5, and the process for doing so has changed several times as Civ5 has been updated and the Gods and Kings expansion was released.
Here, gathered together in one place, is the current set of instructions to enable the Mods menu and to obtain and install mods to use in Civ5. I hope to maintain this post as the definitive mod installation procedure, so please let me know if you spot any errors, or if the process changes as a result of Civ5 updates. UPDATE 19 June 2014 PLEASE USE THE SIMPLE PROCEDURE. The script linked in that post configures the Steam version of Civ5, and installs mods you can subscribe to from the Steam Workshop.
END UPDATE For people unable to use the above automated script for any reason, here is the manual process required: The steps involved are: • Organise your privileges • Find your Civ5 application • Modify your Civ5 software • Find and download a mod • Unzip/extract/expand/decompress the mod into a folder • Install the mod • Activate the mod * NOTES: • '~/' at the beginning of a file or folder path is short for '/Users/[your_user_name]/ • If a file or folder path begins with '~/Library' then this location may be hidden on your Mac. Gopro studio for mac not installing. Use the Finder's Go to Folder menu option and copy/paste the path in order to find it. Organise your privileges You must be logged in as an Administrator on your Mac in order to modify the software. I strongly recommend that you use BBEdit or TextWrangler, or another text editor that allows you to authenticate with your Administrator password in order to edit files owned by root. Otherwise you will have to modify the privileges for the files you have to edit, and for their parent folders before you edit them. TextEdit can be used, but please also note the issue with double hyphens below.
Find your Civ5 application Your Civ5 application is in one of two places depending on whether it is registered with Steam or with the Mac App Store. In a Steam-registered installation, select the Finder's Go->Go to Folder menu option.
Copy and paste the following path string into the text box and click Go: ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/sid meier's civilization v/Civilization V.app This will open a Finder window with your Civ5 application highlighted. In a Mac AppStore registered installation highlight /Applications/Civilization V Campaign Edition.app NOTE: The App Store Civ5 Campaign Edition appears to have been modified in the last few months to make it unable to run mods. If anyone is still able to run mods in Campaign Edition, please let us know. Modify your Civ5 software You have to edit some script files within the Civ5 application in order to enable the Mods menu.
When you have highlighted your copy of the Civ5 application, right click or control-click it and select Show Package Contents. Find the following folder within the package contents window that opens: Contents/Home/assets/UI/FrontEnd/MainMenu.lua Open this file using a suitable text editor (see section 1 above). Find the following line (line #37 in my copy) and insert two hyphens at the start of the line to make it into a comment line as shown. [update]The following additional steps do not appear to be necessary now If you have the Gods & Kings expansion, repeat the above steps to edit the second copy of the file at: Contents/Home/assets/DLC/Expansion/UI/FrontEnd/MainMenu.lua Finally, go to and follow his instructions to replace the file: Contents/Home/assets/UI/FrontEnd/Modding/InstalledPanel.xml 4. Find and Download a Mod Mods that use a custom DLL cannot be run with the Mac versions of Civ5.
Do i need antivirus for mac 2015. You cannot install mods automatically using the Steam Workshop. That only works for Windows users. However, if you are using the Steam version of Civ5 then you can subscribe to a Steam Workshop mod.