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Offline Gibbusflame

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Where to place downloaded mods etc......
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.
« Last Edit: June 28, 2009, 11:05:24 pm by Gibbusflame »
 

Offline peterv

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #1 on: June 28, 2009, 11:08:49 pm
Data/effects
  

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #2 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.
 

Offline peterv

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #3 on: June 28, 2009, 11:11:38 pm
Listen to the General, he knows much better  :p
 

Offline Gibbusflame

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #4 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?
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #5 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.
 

Offline Gibbusflame

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #6 on: June 28, 2009, 11:25:08 pm
Mkay, thanks again.
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #7 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.)
 

Offline Gibbusflame

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #8 on: June 28, 2009, 11:28:02 pm
Okay
« Last Edit: June 29, 2009, 12:19:56 am by Gibbusflame »
 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #9 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\).
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Offline Aardwolf

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #10 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.
 

Offline Gibbusflame

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Still can't get LNebula's to work
Reply #11 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.
 

Offline Dragon

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Re: Still can't get LNebula's to work
Reply #12 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.
 

Offline Gibbusflame

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Re: Still can't get LNebula's to work
Reply #13 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.
 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #14 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.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #15 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.
 

Offline Gibbusflame

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Re: Where to place downloaded mods etc......
Reply #16 on: June 30, 2009, 03:13:31 pm
So I extract them and keep them in the VP folder. Thanks
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