[corvette108048]

I would like to know how to do this

[Dark Hunter]

You could do it by extracting them from... er, whatever VP the missions are in.  I'd check but my computer is doing something... odd, and I can only browse the Internet, not access files (long story).

But, for the love of all that is good, do NOT CHANGE ANYTHING WITHIN THE MAIN VPS! Extracting a mission does not count as changing... just don't put the VP together with the new mission in place. Bad idea.

VPView is a good program for extracting. I'd give you a download link... but descent-network is down, and so, therefore, is the only link I know. If there is a mirror, could someone else post it?

Anyway, you'd extract the mission, mess around in FRED, then you could put the mission into Data/missions. I believe the campaign would load it instead of the original mission. When you're done, just remove the mission from Data, and everything's back to the way it was.

[corvette108048]

Well thanks I did get the PLR viewer there so I will check it out when it comes back up

[jr2]

You could do it by extracting them from... er, whatever VP the missions are in.  I'd check but my computer is doing something... odd, and I can only browse the Internet, not access files (long story).

But, for the love of all that is good, do NOT CHANGE ANYTHING WITHIN THE MAIN VPS! Extracting a mission does not count as changing... just don't put the VP together with the new mission in place. Bad idea.

VPView is a good program for extracting. I'd give you a download link... but descent-network is down, and so, therefore, is the only link I know. If there is a mirror, could someone else post it?

Anyway, you'd extract the mission, mess around in FRED, then you could put the mission into Data/missions. I believe the campaign would load it instead of the original mission. When you're done, just remove the mission from Data, and everything's back to the way it was.

Correct. 

[karajorma]

Correct. 

With one small proviso. If you are using FS2_Open and the media VPs you should extract the mission from mv_models.vp instead of root_fs2.vp and you should place the edited mission in mediavps/Data/Missions instead.

If you don't do this the mission in mv_models.vp will override the one in Freespace2\Data\Missions and you won't notice any change at all.

[jr2]

I thought -mod directories had higher priority than even \data\path\files.fs2 of a lower mod level...

Ie, I thought that:

\FreeSpace2\fsport\fsport-missions.vp/missions/test.fs2 would be overridden by \FreeSpace2\fsport\data\missions\test.fs2

either of the above would have higher priority than:

\FreeSpace2\mediavps\mv_models.vp/missions/test.fs2 would be overridden by \FreeSpace2\mediavps\data\missions\test.fs2

either of the above would have higher priority than:

\FreeSpace2\root_fs2.vp/missions/test.fs2 would be overridden by \FreeSpace2\data\missions\test.fs2

but, the only thing that would have higher priority than anything would be an actual file dumped in the main FS2 directory, eg:

\FreeSpace2\test.fs2

What's the correct way for hierarchy in FS2?... I think it would be easiest to quote my post and change it to the correct version.  Plz?  Thx.. 

[karajorma]

Your assumptions about the priority are mostly correct (I can't see anywhere where I said anything to contradict them) The only thing you got wrong is the one about the main folder. That's now the lowest priority (A change from retail where it was the highest IIRC).

What you've missed is that there are a set of mission in mv_models.vp (the ones that give capships nameplates).

Dark Hunter's advice was to stick the edited missions in Data/missions. This would work fine if you were playing on retail or without the media VPs but as soon as you switch them on by using -mod mediavps in the command line the missions in mv_models.vp  have higher priority than anything else in the path except for a mission with the same filename in mediavps\Data\missions.

In addition if you start with the missions from root_fs2.vp instead of the ones in mv_models you'll lose all the nameplate texture replacements.

[jr2]

You're right, I did skip over the mediavps mv_models.vp missions... forgot about them; it now makes sense.  (Even though I mentioned them.  stupid me).  And, now I know about root dir files being lowest priority... ok, good.

Thx.