Modder's Patch

posted on January 24th, 2012, 11:04 pm

I have been in a predigament. I want to use the FO engine for modding but unfortunately all of the odfs are compiled into a singular file. I want to request a modder's patch that decompiles the odfs into seperate original format individual files. If this is not possible, could it be possible to have the odfs from prior to compiling to help me use as a template.

In addition, I'd like the odf directory restored and then able to be configured so that we could have customizable directories (in case we were to separate our odfs into groups.

posted on January 24th, 2012, 11:11 pm

Here are some links that you should find very helpful on these subjects

Modification Modules - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations
ODF Files - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations

Cheers!

posted on January 24th, 2012, 11:57 pm

Actually I would like a zipped copy of ODF's too. The FPQedit program runs very very poorly on my computer and as such I can only extract one file at a time before the program crashes. Extracting ten files takes 5 minutes. I would like a copy of the ODF's that I can just drag and drop into my mod.

Possible to put on the download page?

posted on January 25th, 2012, 12:07 am

@Kainalu: These issues should have been solved with 3.2.6 - have you tested in the latest patch? I noticed no recent (post 326) bug report about this, and there were a few testing versions of the FPQ packing system released on the forums here as well in 3.2.5

posted on January 25th, 2012, 12:32 am

Ah, 3.2.6 was a Tunngle patch, I never installed it. Linux is fickle with Windows games, if it works, I don't fix it 

I'll get that installed and give it a run. Thanks, Lord of Night