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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Nawyria on December 14, 2008, 04:55:45 pm

Title: How do I "use" custom ships?
Post by: Nawyria on December 14, 2008, 04:55:45 pm

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if any of you could give me a hand with using custom ships in the Freespace game and Fred. I downloaded the Archangel ship model and put all the files in the Data/Model folder, that didn't work. I started looking all over the HLP forums and found topics that suggested I had to subdivide the files among a newly created model, maps and tables folder, then put those folders in the mediavp folder. I tried that, but it didn't work either.

Help anyone?

Title: Re: How do I "use" custom ships?
Post by: Droid803 on December 14, 2008, 05:34:22 pm

Ok, for a custom ship to work, you need a few things:
- Its model (*.POF format) in <yourmod>/data/models
- Its maps (*.dds, *.pcx, or *.tga) in <yourmod>/data/maps
- Its table file in (*.tbm) <yourmod>/data/tables

Then, to actually see it in the tech room, you need to specify what mods you're running, so go into the launcher and set -mod <yourmod>,mediavps

Then, the ship should appear.

If the table comes in a txt, you need to make a -shp.tbm for it and paste the contents of the TXT into it (check the wiki: search Modular Tables).

If you actually want to use that ship in FRED, you're going to have to make a shortcut to FRED with the commandline -mod <yourmod>,mediavps and make a mission with it.

Title: Re: How do I "use" custom ships?
Post by: Titan on December 14, 2008, 05:37:25 pm

first, NEVER put ANYTHING in /freespace, /freespace/data, or /freespace/mediavps. it WILL screw up the game.

create a new mod directory in your freespace folder, for the purposes of this, name it 'nawyriamod', you can change it later. make all the directories (/nawyriamod/data/maps, /nawyria/data/models, etc)

put all the stuff in there (make sure any table files are either a modifed vanilla tbl, which has all the stock ships, or a tbm, which just adds stuff on.)

now, create a shortcut to fred on you desktop. right click it, go to properties, at the end of the directories, press space, and type in -mod Nawyriamod, mediavps

that SHOULD get it working.

EDIT: UGH, double clicked the post thing, never saw the new reply bit...

Title: Re: How do I "use" custom ships?
Post by: Nawyria on December 14, 2008, 06:03:24 pm

I finally managed to get it working. The magical word here appears to be Freespace 2/<modname>/DATA/... etc. Thanks for the help!