Greetings, I know I'm new here. In fact, I just got started in tinkering with FS2 and FS2_Open files.
I do have a problem that when I try to use FS2 after I extracted all the files in the VPs on the site and extracted the others requested in the readme.txt, FS2 (v1.2, original) hangs and closes itself.
I think that perhaps the doc is not so clear.
It says what others files need to be extracted from the FS1 and ST VPs to make this work, with a very little hint as how to extract them.
I think I would need more of a howto like doc, stating what should I do, where do I get what I need, etc.
You need to tell in what order you have to extract the files.
Here would be an example of what I would like an install doc should be:
* Download the VPs of the site at
http://blah.blah* Extract "this" and "that" files to the aproppiate directories inside the fs2/data directory. (e.g: from freespace.vp, data/cbanims to c:\games\fs2\data\cbanims) and then, this other file and so on....
I got confused with the files and saw that the VPs on the site already have files that the originals have. So I don't know what should be overwritten or not.
Well, I'm quite sleepy. I worked the night shift and perhaps what I wrote wouldn't be clearly understood.
Anyway, and once I get this working, I will be glad to write the howto myself.
Regards,
Dario (Mr. Duckman)
P.D: The Karajorma's FAQ explains well what the program loads first, but I got confused anyway
Originally posted by Goober5000
Um... is the readme file not clear enough? Extract the files from the FS1 VP files, and put them in the same directory they came from (e.g., data\cbanims --> data\cbanims). If you don't know how to extract files, check out Karajorma's FAQ.
If you want, you can get custom VP files from the download page on the FSPort website.