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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Gibbusflame on June 28, 2009, 10:40:38 pm

Title: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 28, 2009, 10:40:38 pm

I just downloaded the backgrounds needed for blueplanet (lightspeed's nebulae) but I don't know where to place it!
Sorreh, but what folder does it go in? Does it go straight into the installation folder? (C:Game\Freespace2) or some other specific place?
Help please s'il vous plait.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: peterv on June 28, 2009, 11:08:49 pm

Data/effects

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: General Battuta on June 28, 2009, 11:09:17 pm

Put it in your /mediavps/data/effects folder, not /data/effects. And you'll need the MVPs to run Blue Planet.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: peterv on June 28, 2009, 11:11:38 pm

Listen to the General, he knows much better  :p

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 28, 2009, 11:15:29 pm

Do I need to create a data/effects folder?
My folder says ....../freespace2/MediaVPS....
Are they in the wrong spot?  :ick:

OH YEAH, 1 last thing (sorry xD)
Blueplanet is a .rar file, is that something I need to convert? How?

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: General Battuta on June 28, 2009, 11:21:17 pm

Yep, just un-rar it with WinRar or 7zip. Both free downloads.

Y'know, let me go look. Now that I've actually taken a moment to think about it, I don't think the Lightspeed nebula belong in /data/effects, because I think they're already included in the MediaVPs.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 28, 2009, 11:25:08 pm

Mkay, thanks again.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: General Battuta on June 28, 2009, 11:26:08 pm

Post if you have any tech support problems with Blue Planet. We'll get 'em fixed. It is my favoritest mod ever (though there are a few others of similar calibre you simply must play.)

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 28, 2009, 11:28:02 pm

Okay

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 29, 2009, 02:46:01 am

Lightspeed's Nebulae are indeed included in the 3.6.10 MediaVPs. If you have the 3.6.10 MediaVPs, you won't need separate LS Nebulae. (If they weren't, the correct place for the .dds files would have been \freespace2\mediavps\data\effects\).

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Aardwolf on June 29, 2009, 05:19:36 am

Make sure you're using the up-to-date version of Blue Planet, too... check in the Blue Planet board if you have issues. And be sure to look at the stickied threads before posting.

Title: Still can't get LNebula's to work
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 30, 2009, 02:59:53 pm

I extracted all the files from the folders I DLed to MediaVPs/data/effects, but it still isn't working. Is there something I'm supposed to enable? Wrong folder? Help please.

Title: Re: Still can't get LNebula's to work
Post by: Dragon on June 30, 2009, 03:02:14 pm

Which version of mediavps do you use?
They should be integrated into latest ones.
You may need to place stars.tbl in Mediavps/data/tables ,but it would be better to just get the latest mediavps.

Title: Re: Still can't get LNebula's to work
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 30, 2009, 03:06:00 pm

I should have the latest version, 3.6.10, but I don't think I used that file correctly either.
I still need to convert it (I think), its a .7Z file.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 30, 2009, 03:10:35 pm

... Indeed. The FreeSpace (Open) game engine reads .vp files. It does not read .7z files. You must extract the .vp files from the .7z files with an archive handling program of your choice.

I recommend 7-Zip, but WinRAR is also known to work.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: General Battuta on June 30, 2009, 03:13:22 pm

Yeah, just extract the MediaVPs and forget about Lightspeed Nebulae. Those are present in the MVPs, after all.

Title: Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Post by: Gibbusflame on June 30, 2009, 03:13:31 pm

So I extract them and keep them in the VP folder. Thanks