I put the cbanims.vp file in my data\cbanims directory and did all the other stuff and it is working great!
This port is awsome. Since my upgrade to Win XP, FS1 would not work well for me and would 'hang' at certain times which was enough to be annoying and unplayable.
My only regret is that I can't finish
Silent Threat. I am not experienced at this kind of stuff but if you have plans to port
Silent Threat and need help, I am willing to try if you are willing to teach.
I wrote 2 batch files to help switch between running your port and normal FS2. In my data\tables subdirectory I created another directory called fs1. In there I have all the tables for the port and these 2 .BAT files.
FS1.BAT
@echo off
copy c:\games\freespace2\data\tables\fs1\*.tbl c:\games\freespace2\data\tables
*and*
FS1del.BAT
@echo off
del c:\games\freespace2\data\tables\hud.tbl
del c:\games\freespace2\data\tables\ships.tbl
del c:\games\freespace2\data\tables\stars.tbl
del c:\games\freespace2\data\tables\weapons.tbl
When I want to play normal FS2 I run FS1del and when I want to play your port I run FS1.Bat.
It not much of a contribution but it helped me.