Newbie to Modding

[Kevin2341 0]

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out how to mod SC4 for a while now, and have given up on several occasions.  Just for your information, I have tried reading through the tutorials, and none of them have worked for me yet.

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=149&threadid=76307&enterthread=y#0

these are the tutorials I am trying to use, and have had no luck what so ever.

So basically, I have iLive Reader, and have been following the instructions the best I could, I'm not sure that possibly because there is a new version of iLive from when the original tutorial poster made it, but he tells me in his tutorials to open the analyser.  Since I have four types of "analyser"'s in my iLive Reader, exemplar, index, cohort, and plugin, I have tried using some logic, and I think exemplar is the correct analyser for the project.

Basically, I can enter the exemplar analyser, modify some things, close the analyser, and then hit the save button and I think its going great.  Then I load up SC4 and I can't see my changes, I re-open my analyser and all the values i changed went back to default!

I can't figure out for the life of me what I am doing wrong here, I make my changes, close the analyser, hit the save button at the top of the reader, and it doesn't actually save -.-

Thanks for your time

[Kevin2341 0]

Just an update here.

Last night after some reading through the Reader "Guide", I realized the guy who posted the tutorials on this forum either is outdated from a modding change, or presumed everyone knew everything about the different tools in Reader.

I'm still toying with this a bit, but I basically found out the the tutorial guy left out that you need to hit "record" on the analyser, make your changes, and then close the window, then hit the patch button on the main Reader window, and hit create DAT.

Hope this helps anyone who was confused like I was!