[MOD] IEX - AP/TC Sector Visual Enhancement - IEX 1.5b (27/07/2014)

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Post by -Skipp- » Sat, 28. May 16, 10:56

Hi, I wanted to install IE and IEX in my clean AP installation but it looks like I already have 05/06 dat files in my addons folder. Your guide says:

2). Copy & rename the cat/dat to ...\X3TC\addon\05.cat & ...\X3TC\addon\05.dat
4). Copy & rename the cat/dat to ...\X3TC\addon\06.cat & ...\X3TC\addon\06.dat

Am I supposed to overwrite these files? Usually you need to rename the dat file to a +1 number than the ones already in there.

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Post by X2-Illuminatus » Sat, 28. May 16, 18:00

A clean AP installation only has four cat/dat pairs.
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Post by -Skipp- » Sat, 28. May 16, 18:27

That's strange... My Steam version has 6 :(

i'm talking about the ones in the \addon folder

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Post by siddham » Sat, 28. May 16, 23:20

-Skipp- wrote:That's strange... My Steam version has 6 :(

i'm talking about the ones in the \addon folder
Just to say I checked my Steam folder for AP (clean)
and there are 4 pairs

My LU folder has 9

So that cannot be a clean install

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Post by -Skipp- » Sun, 29. May 16, 09:06

Well - I had TC installed but I uninstalled it before installing AP. But nevermind - I just did a backup of those 2 files, pasted in the mod and it looks like everything is working.

No crashes so I'm guessing it's fine :wink:

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Post by siddham » Sun, 29. May 16, 14:10

-Skipp- wrote:Well - I had TC installed but I uninstalled it before installing AP. But nevermind - I just did a backup of those 2 files, pasted in the mod and it looks like everything is working.

No crashes so I'm guessing it's fine :wink:
I would do a fresh instal
Obviously your instal is not clean
You never know what else may go awry later on

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Post by gastovski » Tue, 23. Aug 16, 21:50

IEX link doesnt work.

I found a new link here it is

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwKteJ ... JxM0k/edit

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Post by Crayons_Only » Wed, 24. Aug 16, 10:33

When I try to click on the IEX link it says it's expired. How do I get my hands on it?

(For LU 1.7.0)

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Post by X2-Illuminatus » Wed, 24. Aug 16, 11:47

See the post above yours.
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Post by Slushman » Wed, 24. Aug 16, 16:56

Quick question - does anyone know if this is compatible with the Star Wars mod by mikhailskatchkov? His mod changes some of the backgrounds already so I'm not really sure.

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Post by Alan Phipps » Wed, 24. Aug 16, 17:22

@ Slushman: Well I don't know if having the vanilla and mod author's backgrounds overwritten by somebody else's may make some of the gameplay text seem odd. This gets worse if the gameplay mod creates specific appearance sectors for plot purposes etc. You might be able to play around with the order in which some extracted background files are loaded - not sure.

The chances are that the game itself will still play properly as long as the new backgrounds are installed properly.
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Post by Moonrat » Thu, 25. Aug 16, 00:04

Charlesnchrg wrote:When I try to click on the IEX link it says it's expired. How do I get my hands on it?
(For LU 1.7.0)
gastovski wrote:IEX link doesnt work.
I found a new link here it is

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwKteJ ... JxM0k/edit
Apologies... I've been on my hols... :)

I'm hoping that I've updated the download links on the OP successfully with a new "bt link" which works alongside the Google one... please let me know asap if there's still an issue.
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Post by Moonrat » Thu, 25. Aug 16, 00:08

Slushman wrote:Quick question - does anyone know if this is compatible with the Star Wars mod by mikhailskatchkov? His mod changes some of the backgrounds already so I'm not really sure.
There is not a SW/IEX compatibility mod' out yet and as mikhailskatchkov's mod uses an altered map file + TFiles which IEX will get in the way of... however if you place the IE+IEX cat/dat files before the Star Wars mod' you'll certainly get some of the goodness... but not all... and some of it may look odd...

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Post by BlackArchon » Wed, 23. Nov 16, 17:59

The first entry indicates only LU 1.7.0 compatibility. Is it safe to use with 1.7.2?

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Post by Moonrat » Thu, 24. Nov 16, 21:42

BlackArchon wrote:The first entry indicates only LU 1.7.0 compatibility. Is it safe to use with 1.7.2?
I think it is. I don't think there were any map changes between 1.7.0 -> 1.7.2
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Post by BlackArchon » Thu, 24. Nov 16, 22:56

I just diffed the x3_universe.xml from 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, they were identical. So it shouldn't be a problem, I will try it in the next days. :)

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Post by Moonrat » Mon, 28. Nov 16, 20:46

BlackArchon wrote:I just diffed the x3_universe.xml from 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, they were identical. So it shouldn't be a problem, I will try it in the next days. :)
I think I did something similar (many Ringo Moons ago) and so hence no update ... Thanks for rechecking :)
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Post by BlackArchon » Mon, 28. Nov 16, 20:56

I'm now some hours in a new LU 1.7.2 game and there weren't any problems until now. :)

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Post by Urschleim » Wed, 7. Dec 16, 14:50

Wonderful mod, thanks!

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Post by SmackinJuice » Tue, 4. Apr 17, 07:16

IEX 1.5b TC Map Hot FixFor vanilla TC games only (ie. not XRM or TCAP), a small & simple hot fix may be applied using this file to avoid a full IEX 1.5b download.
Unpack the map file and place it in the '\maps' folder for TC. Please note that this should only be done for vanilla TC games only (not AP or LUV/XRM/TCAP).

do I still need to do this? as in even with the updated 1.5b file, or was this something for people who had a previous version aka 1.5a.

also what would I use to upack the file with? Thank you for anyone's help.

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