Mod Builder saving to COH2 alpha folder

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For the last couple of days, whenever I build a new version of one of my mods, the Mod Builder has been saving it to "C:\Users\X\Documents\my games\Company of Heroes 2 Alpha\mods\tuning", even though the game path is set correctly. I can just copy the SGA file into the correct folder, but it has become a bit annoying. Has anyone experienced something similar and maybe found a workaround?

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I thought I was the only one going crazy.

The workaround I found to this is create a directory symbolic link between the Alpha/mods directory to CoH2/mods directory using the following command:

mklink /D Link Target

(target needs to be an absolute path; not a relative path)

I've no idea what caused it and when, though.

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I suddenly don't feel so bad that I've put the last few weekends into worldbuilder instead of mod tools.

I would prefer to not mess with mklink anymore than necessary. Especially with how finicky mod tools is woth file pathing to begin with.

But hey at least it's a working fix?

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10 Feb 2017, 20:33 PMZombiFrancis

I suddenly don't feel so bad that I've put the last few weekends into worldbuilder instead of mod tools.

I would prefer to not mess with mklink anymore than necessary. Especially with how finicky mod tools is woth file pathing to begin with.

But hey at least it's a working fix?

10 Feb 2017, 13:23 PMMr.Smith

I thought I was the only one going crazy.

The workaround I found to this is create a directory symbolic link between the Alpha/mods directory to CoH2/mods directory using the following command:

(target needs to be an absolute path; not a relative path)

I've no idea what caused it and when, though.

9 Feb 2017, 13:05 PMPlanet Smasher

For the last couple of days, whenever I build a new version of one of my mods, the Mod Builder has been saving it to "C:\Users\X\Documents\my games\Company of Heroes 2 Alpha\mods\tuning", even though the game path is set correctly. I can just copy the SGA file into the correct folder, but it has become a bit annoying. Has anyone experienced something similar and maybe found a workaround?

I recently ran into this issue as well.

I dug a bit deeper and ended up editing the ModBuilder.exe assembly with ILSpy + Reflexil plugin.

Result? Hardcoded "My Games\Company of Heroes 2 Alpha" string was successfully changed to "My Games\Company of Heroes 2".

Download: https://www.coh2.org/file/13374/modbuilder-patched.zip

How to use the patched .exe:
1. Extract the downloaded .zip archive
2. Copy ModBuilder.Patched.exe to COH2 Tools installation directory, e.g.

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Company of Heroes 2 Tools

3. Run ModBuilder.Patched.exe & try building a mod

Edit: Relic updated tools, the my games path was corrected.

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10 Feb 2017, 22:30 PMJanne252

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You're a magician. Thanks a lot!

That just leaves the question of why this happened in the first place. When Relic posted something about "updating the Mod Tools", this was not what I hoped for

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10 Feb 2017, 22:47 PMPlanet Smasher

You're a magician. Thanks a lot!

That just leaves the question of why this happened in the first place. When Relic posted something about "updating the Mod Tools", this was not what I hoped for

When did this "updating the Mod Tools" happen?

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10 Feb 2017, 22:53 PMJanne252

When did this "updating the Mod Tools" happen?

Not yet. This is what Kyle wrote:

New Content (UGC)

Although we plan to continue releasing new in-game content in future updates, we will now be leveraging UGC such as vehicle skins and maps to help offer new gameplay experiences to the community. We hope that advances to COH2’s modding tools will also take place in the coming months, allowing additional forms of content to be created by the community as well - however this is still to be confirmed.

https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/comment/260691/

I just meant that the introduction of this bug might be the first thing that has happened to the Mod Tools in a while