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doubleshadow
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
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 Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 17:29 Post subject: doubleshadow's X3 ModManager |
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X3 ModManager latest version 0.0.5 - released 14.2.2006
Download from www.doubleshadow.wz.cz
Tutorials / How-to's:
You can now find the tutorials on X3 ModManager page on X-wiki.
Old tutorials hosted on this forum:
- How to unpack your game with X3MM (if you want to do that)
- How to make a mod with X3MM
Changes
* fixed bug caused by previous "bug fix" - this time everything should work (I really hope)
* another nasty bug with file extracting (see x3mm changelog). Strangely enough, it seems that no one run across it (myself included).
Description
Updated version of X2 ModManager.
Now it will correctly rename files when compressing to catalogs and decompressing back. It will also compress only certain files. All is fully configurable.
FAQ
Q - When I start the program, I have an error saying:
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Error starting program:
File not found: "some file.dll"
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A - You need to download and install the "C runtime and zlib1 library installation". It is available at the same download page where the X3MM is. It might be good to install it into your system directoy (windows\system32 on Win XP) as those files are used by all of my tools.
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doubleshadow
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 17:30 Post subject: |
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0.0.2 - First public version. I tried to remove/fix all the bugs that were in X2MM. I was too lazy to fix them back then... 
Now you can fully decompress your game with just few mouse clicks. I will write tutorial how to do that for newbies.
Enjoy.
EDIT:
Here is the tutorial: How to use X3MM to unpack your game
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OCASPAWN
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Posts: 34 on topic
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 19:39 Post subject: |
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   gr8 m8 thanks will get it now and play 
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Nightwind
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 20:34 Post subject: |
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Thanks mate, you make all of our work that much easier 
Can't wait to give it a whirl.
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Tartarus
Joined: 16 May 2005
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Location: The X Universe
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 20:56 Post subject: |
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| doubleshadow wrote: |
| I will write tutorial how to do that for newbies. |
THANK YOU!!!
I have never even laid eyes on the coding for games before, and I'm sick of waiting around for things to happen, and seeing everyone else ranting on about their success with your scripty-mod thing whatchamacallit.
My curiosity is all consuming!
Besides, I have reason to believe that my game is screwed up on a very fundamental level, and getting to know the code better may help me in solving this problem.
Besides... I want to make my own ships!!! 
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argharg
Joined: 11 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 22:59 Post subject: |
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woot.. great does it mean we can mix CapShip Rebalance+Cockpit Callback+Minimal HUD ?
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LightningNova
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 23:26 Post subject: |
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| argharg wrote: |
woot.. great does it mean we can mix CapShip Rebalance+Cockpit Callback+Minimal HUD ?
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...and if so, can someone explain how? I tried it and while I had cockpits on fighters still, the capital ships had no weapons 
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Galaxy613
Joined: 28 Dec 2004
Posts: 2504 on topic
Location: USA, VA
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 23:42 Post subject: |
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| LightningNova wrote: |
| argharg wrote: |
woot.. great does it mean we can mix CapShip Rebalance+Cockpit Callback+Minimal HUD ?
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...and if so, can someone explain how? I tried it and while I had cockpits on fighters still, the capital ships had no weapons |
What do you mean the capital ships have no weapons?  Oh and if you are going to make the combined mod yourself you must be aware that if you are going to over write files you will have to ditch one part of the Capital Rebalance mod... the part that gives cap ships better/fixed power plants because that part is in the tShips file which the Cockpit Callback is mainly based on.
So to make it you must unpack in this order:
Capital Rebalance, then Cockpit Callback, then Minimal HUD.
Once you unpacked them into the same directory, just pack the folders into one mod and it *should* work...
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DemaeRamen
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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Location: Saf Landun
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| Posted: Mon, 5. Dec 05, 23:57 Post subject: |
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That's bonkers!
I'm an ignoramus and within 5 minutes I made my own mod cocktail out of the PBE-Flak edit and the no fog 200km one.
Getting me to do that is like teaching anvils to fly. Well done!
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LightningNova
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Dec 05, 11:35 Post subject: |
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| Galaxy613 wrote: |
What do you mean the capital ships have no weapons? Oh and if you are going to make the combined mod yourself you must be aware that if you are going to over write files you will have to ditch one part of the Capital Rebalance mod... the part that gives cap ships better/fixed power plants because that part is in the tShips file which the Cockpit Callback is mainly based on.
So to make it you must unpack in this order:
Capital Rebalance, then Cockpit Callback, then Minimal HUD.
Once you unpacked them into the same directory, just pack the folders into one mod and it *should* work... |
I spawned an M1, hopped into the cockpit and it had no guns (I went to the wepaons panel and it was empty) - I am sure I did something wrong, I'll try again tonight To be honest, I didn't have much time to play with it yesterday.
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doubleshadow
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
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Location: Czech Republic, Prague
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Dec 05, 14:23 Post subject: |
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There's a bug in the X3MM 0.0.2 
Yes....
And what's worse, it's a quite critical bug. Kind of. Under certain circumstances the X3MM can crash.
It will happen when you try to overwrite a compressed file in a catalog and the file which is already in the catalog doesn't contain valid time stamp (last modification date). It will also happen when you try to display infromations about such file.
I found this bug when I was playing with files in Cockpit Callback mod.
So better get the new version: http://www.doubleshadow.wz.cz/x3mm/index.php?p=download
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stk
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Dec 05, 18:03 Post subject: |
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hi,
thx for your great tools!
is there any way you could spill the beans on the
exact file data, organization of bytes, etc to pack/unpack
the cats/dats...?
i got so far that i can do the .pck<->xml/txt conversion on single files,
but the xor 0xc8/zlib inflate/deflate does not work with the x2 cat/dat files.
tia
stk
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doubleshadow
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
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Location: Czech Republic, Prague
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Dec 05, 18:33 Post subject: |
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| stk wrote: |
hi,
thx for your great tools!
is there any way you could spill the beans on the
exact file data, organization of bytes, etc to pack/unpack
the cats/dats...?
i got so far that i can do the .pck<->xml/txt conversion on single files,
but the xor 0xc8/zlib inflate/deflate does not work with the x2 cat/dat files.
tia
stk |
Then you are hell of a programmer 
I had to ask Stone-D to send me his files 
Check your PM.
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stk
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue, 6. Dec 05, 18:41 Post subject: |
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thx a bunch
btw, not that good, just stumbled on your old thread with stone-d and changed a few things
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Nightwind
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed, 7. Dec 05, 02:15 Post subject: |
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It won't let me unpack the .dat files, infact I have't been able to do anything with the .dat files, any help?
Cheers
~Nightwind
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