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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Govenator on March 31, 2014, 09:26:53 pm
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Hello all,
I downloaded this campaign and it is not showing up in my campaign room. Per everyones advice I have not put it in my freespace2 folder. I created a folder called jtep.
Any ideas?
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It's not enough to place a mod's files in their own folder; you must also select the folder as the active mod. If you're using wxLaucher, you can do this by clicking the "Mods" tab, clicking the mod that you want (you may need to scroll through the list to see the mod), and then clicking "Activate."
For this mod, however, there are some things that you must do first (I'll assume you got it here (http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.30)):
This mod is an example of how not to package your mod: placing all of its loose files in one place rather than in their proper folders or, preferably, in VP files. Fortunately, the author was kind enough to include installation instructions in the readme file. Make sure you only follow the second set, not the first set.
You might have noticed the lack of a mod.ini file. Unfortunately, wxLauncher doesn't let you select folders that lack this file, and even if it did, you would not get MediaVP enhancements. To fix this, first create a file called "mod.ini" in your mod's folder. (I advise you to make Windows Explorer show file extensions first; otherwise, you might end up creating something like "mod.ini.txt" instead, and that won't work. How exactly you do this depends on what version of Windows you have, so I suggest googling it.) Next, open your newly created mod.ini and add the following text:
[multimod]
secondarylist = mediavps_3612;
If you want to use a MediaVP version other than 3.6.12, change "mediavps_3612" to the folder where the desired MediaVPs are installed.
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Yarn you are awesome!
That worked and everything is fine for now. Also I appreciate the explanation as this will help me understand other mods as well. I had no idea how mod.ini files were created and now I see how simple they are. Also I believe other mods with vp only files will no longer confuse me (I used to put them in my FS2 folder until everyone told me to stop that. It was the only way I got them to work.) I'm very new but hope to one day be able to contribute something useful to this site so thanks for explaining.