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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: ShivanSlayer on September 15, 2021, 12:55:06 am

Title: VP files
Post by: ShivanSlayer on September 15, 2021, 12:55:06 am

I downloaded JustinMind to open the music files and see if I could listen to them, namely the Freespace 1 victory theme, but JustinMind says the files will not open

Title: Re: VP files
Post by: The E on September 15, 2021, 01:22:14 am

Whatever this JustinMind thing is, it's not the correct tool for the job. You need one of the VP tools listed here (https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/*.VP) in order to open them.

EDIT:
Assuming I have the right thing, JustinMind is ... a prototyping tool for websites that apparently uses .vp as the file extension for its own proprietary file format? Weird coincidence, that, but nothing more.

Title: Re: VP files
Post by: ShivanSlayer on September 15, 2021, 01:41:43 am

Google told me JustInMInd is the only thing that can open VP files, but through QuickVP, I gained access

Title: Re: VP files
Post by: The E on September 15, 2021, 01:51:13 am

Google is great, I use it all the time, but blindly trusting its search results is not recommended. When you google "how do I open .vp files" and the first result is for a web authoring tool, that should be a signal that the result may not be what you're actually looking for; changing the query to "how do I open freespace vp files" does lead you to the right address though.

Title: Re: VP files
Post by: DefCynodont119 on September 15, 2021, 06:54:46 pm

Note for anyone reading this who's looking to open Freespace VP files, VPview32: https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/VPView32 and QuickVP: https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/QuickVP are both great tools for this.