[haloboy100]

boo.....

[Mars]

I know absolutely nothing about modeling, scripting, texturing, or how to mod. at all.

Join the club

I just know how to be a parasitic forumite

[haloboy100]

teach me, great one! 

[Terashell]

OKay, here's a question for you.

How the hell do I get these missions (Ross128, Tombaugh) to work?  I have them in the Freespace2 folder like the other mods, do I need to put them in another folder, or what?

Currently the paths to folders are Games\Freespace2\fsport-Ross128
and
Games\Freespace2\TombaughStationAttack

With all the related files in the folders...

How do I make them work!? I want to play!!

[jr2]

Are you using Retail?  Or SCP?

[Terashell]

Are you using Retail?  Or SCP?

FS2_open  I go to select mod, select it, and it's not anywhere when I get in the game.

[jr2]

Mission Simulator in the Tech Room, select "single mission", not "campaign mission"... you have to have the Port running as your mod... and it'd better not be in your root directory... if it is, go read karajorma's FAQ (FreeSpace FAQ) found at the top of this page, under "External Sites".

[Terashell]

So I need to have the Ross128 and Tombaugh missions in the fsport folder?

[jr2]

\Freespace2\fsport\data\missions... etc

ya, that would be good, I think... as long as they don't have any table files that override fsport's.  What kind of files are there?

[Terashell]

TombaughStationAttack folder contains:
cruiser01b-02a-glow.pcx
cruiser01b-04a-glow.pcx
TombaughAttack.fs2
cruiser01b-01a-glow.pcx
cruiser01b-03a-glow.pcx
ships.tbl


fsport-Ross128 folder contains:
fsport-Ross128.vp
and a few image files and a readme that doesn't help me get it to work.

[jr2]

ok, then put them in their own directories, like this:

\freespace2\tombaughattack

\freespace2\ross128

then, make a mod.ini file and put 1 each in those directories.  The mod.ini file should contain:

Code: [Select]

secondarylist=fsport,mediavps
I think that should fix it for you.  Then just select the ross128 or tombaughattack as your mod.  Let me know if this works for you.

[Terashell]

Error: Can't open model file <navbuoy-terran.pof>
File:J:\src\cvs\fs2_open_3_6_9.final\code\Model\ModelRead.cpp
Line: 1902
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------
From Ross128, so... that didn't work.  mod.ini ends up as mod.ini.txt no matter how I try to save it from notepad.

[Terashell]

Hold on, I copied the mod.ini from Transcend, and deleted anything that was specific to that mod... trying again.

[jr2]

You have to file > save as, then select type "all files", then click in the name box, type mod.ini, then hit save.  as long as it's type "all files", it won't auto-append an extension.  Try that.

EDIT: g2g for now.  Let me know if this works... good luck!  (I think once mod.ini's working, you'll be all set.)

[Terashell]

It worked for Ross128 but only as a single mission, and he said it needed to be run as a campaign...    I'm going to go play Tombaugh now.

[Terashell]

Frustration with this:  out of five.

I can get Ross128 as a single mission, but not as the campaign its supposed to be, apparently.  I can't get Tombaugh to work at all.   Would someone who's actually gotten these to work provide step by step instructions, so that even a total noob could make it work right?  I'm going to crash out now... I hope there's an answer when I get back...

[Goober5000]

Ross 128 only needs to be run as a campaign in FS1, and only for technical reasons.  In FS2 you can run it as a standalone mission.

You can use Windows Explorer to rename mod.ini.txt to mod.ini.  And while you're at it, if you haven't already, you should set the options to always display file extensions.

[Terashell]

Yeah, but, I get the RTB objective, do so, and it gives me a debrief but no shivan slaughter... 

[0rph3u5]

Yeah, but, I get the RTB objective, do so, and it gives me a debrief but no shivan slaughter... 

stay a while after the RTB directive has been given...

[Terashell]

I still can't get tombaugh to work...