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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: GTCv Belisarius on July 21, 2006, 12:09:20 pm
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Hallo guys
I would like to know which program I can use to unpack some campains which are packed in VP files and where I can download it. Can someone help me please?
I want to translate some campains to German. Of course I will ask the autors of the campains. I don't want to change the missions or any other things. I only want to translate the mission text, the briefings etc...
Greetings
Beli
I hope I'm in the right forum for my question and you can understand my bad English :nervous:
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VPview (http://www.descent-network.com/descman/) is what you're looking for, if using a windows system.
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QuickVP is what I recommend. Its stable and reliable. Available at the SCP website.
VPview 2.0 has more features, but may be unstable. And I have encountered .vp's it won't read, but that QuickVP opened. VPview 2.0 is also available from the SCP website.
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What do you mean with unstabile? Errors in the files?
Greetings
Beli
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By unstable I mean that it may sometimes (rarely) crash. Nothing serious, but requires on to start up the program again. I used VPview a lot some years ago. But have now moved to QuickVP because it stable, works and I like it better. There a bunch of vp associated programs floating around, I encourage you to try them out. Find one you like. The ones montioned are the "dominant ones", and are all worth a try. :yes:
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That sounds nice :)
Afraid I didn't found QuickVP, so I did download for the first moment the VPView 2.0 till I can find QuickVP.
But I have two last questions about the programs. I can unpack the VPs, but can I pack it again, when I'm done with my tranlations?
And my second question is that I have a few campaigns which are not packed in the VP format, but this campains are campain files. How can I get every single mission file?
Sorry that I'm so annoying, but I really like the most of the campains here, but sometimes I can't understand it :nervous:
Greetings
Beli
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For QuickVP check: http://scp.indiegames.us/download.php?list.11
You don't have to pack the VP again to use the files. You can place the files in their respective folders in the freespace2/data folder (mission in /missions folder, tables in /tables folder etc.). Infact, if you alter files in .vp's it is better not to repack them, it may create problems. Just place the files in the /data folder, the game will check there first so if a .vp has the same file that can be found in /data, the one in the .vp will be ingored. Ok, I could have propably explained that better. :rolleyes:
But basicly, yes, .vp's can be repacked. But you don't really have to. Unless you plan to release something, then it is convinient to pack them in to .vp...
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I want to post the translatet campains in a german forum. I'll ask the autors if I'm allowed to do that. If not, then I can use the translatet campaigns for me.
And VPs would be better, I think, for downloads. Cause my upload volume is not soo big as you think.
Greetings
Beli