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Open up Command Prompt ( I ran command Prompt as admin, but I don’t know if that’s required or not unless you’re in a privileged folder), 3 and navigate to the folder you just unzipped steamcmd.exe to. This next step may be partially unnecessary, but without uninstalling it all and repeating the process, I can’t know for sure, so I am suggesting the full process. exe into its own folder – this new folder is about to become the installation location of SteamCMD. Since the native method of uploading RoN mods does not support the inclusion of thumbnails (but the Workshop itself does), we’re going to have to upload the thumbnail via other means.įirst, download SteamCMD, a utility provided by Valve for developers. I’m showing you how to add a thumbnail to an existing Workshop item, and the method will not work if you don’t have an existing item on the Steam Workshop – although it’s plausible that you can adapt the method to work on a brand new item if you do some extra legwork of your own. Now that we have that out of the way.Īs a prerequisite, you will need a mod already on the Steam Workshop. This guide is also available in video form, but please note I have no plans to upload a new video each time any part of this process breaks, as I will instead just update this article please refer to the video primarily as a visual aid. This means I cannot reasonably be considered an expert on any of these things.

My investigation into this was the first time I’ve ever made a RoN mod, and the first time I’ve ever uploaded something to the Steam Workshop, and the first time I’ve ever used multiple things in the method outlined later.

It is assumed for this article that you’re on a modern version of Windows – older versions and Linux users: good luck.

The method used works as of publication date – this does not guarantee it will work by the time you read the article.

This is not intended to be a tutorial on how to upload a mod itself to the Steam workshop, for RoN or any other game.Here’s how I did it.įirst, the usual disclaimers to outline the scope of what I can and cannot help you with here: Nonetheless, by using a workaround, last night I became probably the first person to ever have a thumbnail for my RoN mod on the Steam Workshop. I looked into this and it appears that this is because the native mod uploader does not support thumbnails. If you’ve ever tried to browse the Steam Workshop for Rise of Nations, you may have been frustrated at how none of the entries appear to have thumbnails.