Latest version of the Babylon 5 Civilization IV BTS FF Mod.
Install instructions for both steam & disc versions included in download.
Latest version of the Babylon 5 Civilization IV BTS FF Mod.
How To Install The Babylon 5 Civ 4 BtS Mod:
For owners of the original disc copy:
1 - If you have the old original dvd version of Civ 4 Complete then you need to make sure that Beyond the Sword has the 3.19 patch installed. Regular Civ 4 & Warlords don't work on modern Windows (7+), sadly Firaxis only fixed them in the steam version grr, however Beyond the Sword with the 3.19 patch still runs fine on modern windows. You can get the patch from HERE .
2 - Once you've tested & made sure that Civ 4 Beyond the Sword is working fine. Download the latest version of the Babylon 5 mod 7zip file from HERE (if you haven't already).
3 - Go to your Civilization IV install folder, then into the 'Beyond the Sword' subfolder and then finally into the BtS 'Mods' subfolder. Create a 'Babylon 5' folder and extract the 7zip files contents into that folder. Do NOT install the mod to the regular vanilla Civilization IV 'Mods' folder. Many people make this mistake!
For owners of the Steam copy:
1 - If you have the newer steam version of Civ 4 Complete you will first need to make sure you install the Beyond the Sword version of Civ 4 (for some reason steam separates them into separate installs when you buy their Civ 4 complete).
2 - Once you've tested & made sure that Civ 4 Beyond the Sword is working fine. Download the latest version of the Babylon 5 mod 7zip file from HERE (if you haven't already).
3 - Just to be even more confusing Steam renamed the main Civilization IV vanilla install folder to 'Civilization IV Beyond the Sword' resulting in people thinking that they are in the BtS mods subfolder when they are not! So go into Civilization IV BtS install folder, then into the 'Beyond the Sword' subfolder and then finally into the BtS 'Mods' subfolder. Create a 'Babylon 5' folder and extract the 7zip files contents into that folder. If you're still confused then check out this screenshot of where mine is installed:
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4 - IMPORTANT! The Babylon 5 Mod will not work properly with the Steam version of Civ 4 BtS due to the steam version of BtS not inserting any Windows registry entries. The game will start but there will be many missing graphics & "Error in FinalFrontierGameUtils callback handler calculateScore" errors. To fix this problem run the 'Civ4SteamRegistryFix.reg' file included with the mod. If your download is missing this file then you can get another copy from HERE .
How To Play The Babylon 5 Civ 4 BtS Mod:
1 - Start Civilization IV Beyond the Sword.
2 - In the main menu go to 'Advanced' and then 'Load a mod'. You should see 'Babylon 5' in the list of mods (If not you've probably got the above installation steps wrong). Activate it and you should be good to go!
Babylon 5 Civ4 Mod v3.3 Gameplay Videos:
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Special Bonus Part 3:
HOW!?
One of the Civ 4 addon packs came with a space mod called The Final Frontier that converts Civ into a Master of Orion like 4x game. Naturally it wasn't long before fans modded it into Star Trek and Babylon 5 space games haha.
Thanks for this!
Thank you :)
Played this back when it was still early in development by the original author. Not sure if that's who put it here, but so happy to find this mod again. It had become more or less abandoned for a good while there, with the well working version lost. Don't know if the original author took it back up or another. But very happy to see it again. :)
Yeah I'm not the original author, that's PsiCorps. He pretty much burned out on working on it sadly. I helped him out with hosting and getting his mod back out there again. Also helped write some guides to help people get it working etc.
Hey, this is really cool, can I ask where the ship models were sourced from? If they're original to the mod I'd like to ask if I could port them for use in Stellaris modding, with attribution to the original authors of course.