Appearance modding not working

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I'll admit I'm new to modding galciv3, but I'm not new to modding and this looks like it should be pretty straight forward. The trouble is, I'm not seeing any change in game when I try to mod something.

What I'm trying to do to sort of test the waters is set up a simple ship color scheme. I've tried this in two different ways.

I have an appearance set up using the append method. When that didn't show up in game- I didn't really expect it too- I tried using a replacement for the GC3AppearanceDefs.xml file, with the default color scheme edited to use the colors I wanted. It didn't work. Then I tried replacing the colors in the bubblegum appearance the same way. Again, using bubblegum in game shows the original bubblegum colors rather than my modded ones. The only thing I can conclude is that for some reason my game is not activating these mods. I even replaced the original file in the game directory with no results. 

Mods are enabled in options. I am using crusade. The debug file shows no errors of any kind, much less anything relavant to what I'm doing. What am I missing here?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Your putting the file in Documents\GC3 Crusade\Mods\YourMod\Core?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Don't you mean Documents\My Games\GC3Crusade\Mods\TempMod\Core?

I have ship sets that I've downloaded and made both which are in the apropriate GC3Crusade folders, and those are working fine. It's just the mods I've tried that aren't working. I did try putting the GC3Crusade folder directly in Documents, but that didn't help. I also tried changing the name to GC3 Crusade, just in case it was suposed to have a space in it like it does in your post, but then it wasn't listing the ships I've made and so forth (so obviously, it's not supposed to have a space).

Speaking of which, the only mods I can find that specifically mention being crusade compatible are all huge and involve a bunch of fleet styles, ship designs, and factions that I don't really want to clutter up my folders and game with. Can anyone direct me to a simpler mod that they know works with crusade for testing purposes?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Both my Expanded Cities and Administrator Training Institute mods work fine with Crusade.  

https://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/113/?

https://www.nexusmods.com/galacticcivilizations3/mods/103/?

Neither does anything with ships, though.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Never mind, I found the solution.

I found a post in the modding guide pinned in this forum where someone mentions his mods working after he verified his files with steam. I thought I'd try it, and my little mod is working perfectly now.

So apparently, I have to verify my files every time I want to add a mod. Weird.

My guess is there is some data file in the main directory that tracks mod data but isn't updating properly; it gets re-downloaded then updates when steam does it's verification thing.