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Parent repo for other X4 projects, with shared code for documentation and release generation.
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No Extension Settings Menu in 5.00 (475603) #12

Closed leoric closed 11 months ago

leoric commented 2 years ago

clean install of latest versions from here

sn_mod_support_apis sn_extra_game_options sn_hotkey_collection sn_interact_collection

and no menu

https://imgur.com/a/gjs9iqE

tried to remove all files from Documents\Egosoft and restart - no changes https://controlc.com/fd3ec330

bvbohnen commented 2 years ago

Are the extensions placed in the X4 installation's "extensions" folder, eg. alongside the egosoft dlcs? They won't fully work if in the documents extensions folder, even though they show up in the game extensions list.

The Extension Options menu entry won't show up until loading into a game, but it looks like you are in game in those screenshots.

Other than the above two points, I would want to look at the debug log to see if anything is amiss.

leoric commented 2 years ago

I kinda know how to use extensions, there are about fifty of them in my game, this was just a clean install to test if it conflicts with something. Steam workshop version works fine, but jumping through all the loops to get it for non-steam game is exhausting

CinemaGame commented 1 year ago

I have a similar problem in the non-Steam version of "X4", I even deleted all the other extensions, but the menu in the game itself did not appear. I've been desperate for 3 days trying to fix this "clunker". Even in YouTube there are no guides for installing these mods /fixing this problem, since no one has encountered it and there are no difficulties with installation :(

bvbohnen commented 1 year ago

There generally shouldn't be differences between steam and non-steam x4, unless the steam workshop is changing extension enables on each game startup.

For debugging, an early possible point of failure would be in the lua loader. Editing the subst01.dat file to uncomment "--DebugError" lines to " DebugError" (use spaces to keep the file size unchanged) will show in the debuglog if mod lua files are loading properly.

chantling commented 1 year ago

I was having the same issue in v6, and it turned out the problem was that I had renamed this mod's folder to move it to the end of the extension list in my file manager. I've been rebuilding my mod list for v6 and I constantly move all mods to another folder while I test and fix new mods, and it was a pain to keep finding sn_mod_support_apis and x4-mod-ui-extensions in the list to deselect them each time. I forgot that there are certain mods that won't work if their folder gets renamed. This may be the issue with the posters above. A bit belated of a fix, if so, but may help in the future.