A question from a newbie

[Mr. ?]

I just got SE4 in the mail yesterday, and I must say this is one great game. But I do have a problem. I downloaded and installed patch 1.35 after messing around with the game for a while, and that's when I noticed that the modifications I had made no longer worked. Before I had installed the patch I had taken the folder called Data and made a copy of it, this one I labeled MyData I changed the components.txt file and then went into Path.txt and replaced Data with MyData. Does anyone know what I should do to get the components I created to show up again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Dracus]

After you installed the patch, did you rename the path again?

[Suicide Junkie]

Installing the patch resets PATH.TXT

[Mr. ?]

When I noticed the components I made were gone I changed Path.txt to say MyData. It still did not work, though.

[Nitram Draw]

Did you make the components in a separate Components file? The patch overwrites the original files I think.

[Mr. ?]

Nope, I checked the MyData file, It wasn't rewritten when I installed the patch. The only thing that I can see that was changed was the path.txt file. It says

using mod directory := none

I changed none to MyData but it still does not work, but it did before I installed the patch.

[NqzvenyOynve]

Data needs to be a subdir of MyData.

[Edit]
To clarify:
MyData needs to contain custom folders(Data, Races, etc), not just custom data .txt files.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mr. ?:
Nope, I checked the MyData file, It wasn't rewritten when I installed the patch. The only thing that I can see that was changed was the path.txt file. It says

using mod directory := none

I changed none to MyData but it still does not work, but it did before I installed the patch.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>



[This message has been edited by NqzvenyOynve (edited 14 June 2001).]

[Mr. ?]

Okay, I have put those folders under MyData (Data, Races, etc) but now when I start the game it says that it can not load "Settings.txt".

[This message has been edited by Mr. ? (edited 15 June 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Okay, I have put those folders under MyData (Data, Races, etc) but now when I start the game it says that it can not load "Settings.txt".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Settings.txt must be here:
SE4\mydata\data\settings.txt

It may say "can't read xxxxx" if there is an unknown error in the file, like a double-line halfway through one of your component definitions.

[Mr. ?]

Settings.txt is under SE4/MyData/Data but I have not changed anything in it. I have replaced Components.txt with the original file so that all the stuff under MyData is just like the original files, however it still says it cannot load settings.txt.

[Suicide Junkie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Settings.txt is under SE4/MyData/Data but I have not changed anything in it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Ahh, then you probably need to compare the settings.txt to the new patch's settings.txt.

The patch probably added some new settings that must be in settings.txt.

[Mr. ?]

That fixed it. I thank you for your help. This game Rocks!