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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Zarax on July 25, 2015, 07:15:58 am

Title: An old dog is looking to learn new tricks
Post by: Zarax on July 25, 2015, 07:15:58 am

Hello, after several years I decided it would be nice to give another try to FS2 modding, however I found that my skills are pretty much atrophied after a decade away from FRED and tables.
I'm looking for a way to merge FS port and FS2 ships, weapons and mediaVPs in a single package to serve as base for furter modding, hoping that there's a better way than copying entry by entry and doing error checking.

Could you guys give me some suggestions or point me to some good tutorials?

Thanks!

Title: Re: An old dog is looking to learn new tricks
Post by: mjn.mixael on July 25, 2015, 08:47:04 am

Unless such a mod pack is already available (i can't think of one), you'll have to copy the data from FSPort  to make it yourself. Now, you could use FSPort as a base mod dependency and add the FS2 stuff to it with modular tables, but FSPort tends to be buggy and has an overly complicated mod structure. I'd suggest not going with that plan unless you want a steep learning curve up front.

Title: Re: An old dog is looking to learn new tricks
Post by: Zarax on July 25, 2015, 09:34:44 am

So I should use FS2 as base and add FS1 entries as needed, right?

Title: Re: An old dog is looking to learn new tricks
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on July 25, 2015, 01:29:17 pm

That would be the recommended approach, yes.