So on live I had written a custom quickchat, and custom costumechange popmenu. I'm just getting back into coh but have had a tequila install since 2019. The data directory had my .mnu's in their proper subdirectories but the ingame quickchat was not mine, and /popmenu costumes brings up a popmenu but not mine. I've been tinkering for DAYS and asking for help ingame and Discord and gotten nothing. I just want the files read.
Troubleshooting:
Duh-they are .mnu not .mnu.txt
Data>texts>English directory
verified Tequila installdirectory is where i'm working and not another backup location of coh(they're all over my PCs)
cut everything out of English and started game, /popmenu Costumes STILL works when it shouldn't. (closing and relaunching game between all troubleshooting steps btw)
"Maybe the devs made this dumb unfinished costumes popmenu and playerdirectory files can't override it" Tried changing the name of my menu. not the filename, the menu
Saw a tip somewhere that the line above the menu title needs to end in carriagereturn, verified that was true, it always has been in my file.
Tried installing and using HCLauncher. Still nothing.
decided to try using my custom loginscreen files I made a lifetime ago that used to work in textures_library of data. Those are ignored also.
getting furious deleted the main textures_library file for loginscreen image
opened the game and the cursed default still loads just fine. While that file is GONE from my system.
(It's not any Windows policing issue as i'm on Windows 7 with UAC off. The game installs fine and my costumes and powercust all also save to this directory verifying it's not the wrong install area i'm looking at)
What on earth has happened that causes all usermods that don't come from that "Cohmodder" app i'm about to have to look into next to be ignored???