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Mr. ?
June 14th, 2001, 03:00 PM
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
June 14th, 2001, 03:03 PM
After you installed the patch, did you rename the path again?
Suicide Junkie
June 14th, 2001, 03:59 PM
Installing the patch resets PATH.TXT
Mr. ?
June 14th, 2001, 04:57 PM
When I noticed the components I made were gone I changed Path.txt to say MyData. It still did not work, though.
Nitram Draw
June 14th, 2001, 05:00 PM
Did you make the components in a separate Components file? The patch overwrites the original files I think.
Mr. ?
June 14th, 2001, 06:22 PM
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
June 14th, 2001, 06:24 PM
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. ?
June 15th, 2001, 01:41 AM
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
June 15th, 2001, 02:24 AM
<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. ?
June 15th, 2001, 05:41 PM
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
June 15th, 2001, 06:14 PM
<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. ?
June 16th, 2001, 01:24 AM
That fixed it. I thank you for your help. This game Rocks!
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