I must be missing something

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Fri, 25. Jun 04, 23:26

I have been working on a "Sea of Tranquility" sound mod that eliminates some of the repetitive voice effects, but it doesn't seem to work.

I followed the instructions in Burianek's sticky about sound modification; Here's what I did:

1) Identify undesired sound effects in the 440001.pck file.
2) set the duration to 001 milliseconds in 00044.xml.
3) save and zip to 00044.xml.gz.
4) crypt to 00044.pck.
5) x2build to tranquility.dat and tranquility.cat.
6) copy to x2 root directory and rename 06.dat/06.cat (05 is removing the "modified" tag).
7) Run game and learn that nothing has changed.

The game is running in modified mode since I have access to the script editor.

I tried putting tranquility.dat/cat in the mods folder and activating them, but to no avail.

What am I doing wrong?

XeHonk · Post by **XeHonk** » Fri, 25. Jun 04, 23:34

the 0004?.xml file isnt pck'ed (well.. at least mine isnt)

and.. are you sure it's in the proper folder? /mov/0004?.xml

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Fri, 25. Jun 04, 23:38

I'm new to this. Are you saying I should put the modified 00044.xml in the mov directory? there isn't one there now. I found 00044.xml by unpacking 01.dat.

XeHonk · Post by **XeHonk** » Fri, 25. Jun 04, 23:54

...\mov\00044.xml

that's where my file is at
and i'm saying that you cant just package files into other folders and expect the game to find 'em
(the .cat/.dat files do have a directory tree, not just a list of files)

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 00:00

I will try that.
Is there a way I can repack 01.dat with the modified file?

XeHonk · Post by **XeHonk** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 00:00

you can, but you really really really shouldnt do that :]

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 00:03

Well.. I,ve already reinstalled three times and one more wouldn't hurt so bad. So how would I go about repacking 01.dat?

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 00:24

I tried putting 00044.xml in the mov directory but it didn't work. Any ideas about how to include directory information in dat/cat files?

The_Rock · Post by **The_Rock** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 01:05

This guide may help..

Burianek · Post by **Burianek** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 01:38

I think it mentions in the guide that if you have the 01 - 04.dat files in your root directory the game will run off of those. (At least it should, damn author) It's a question of priority.

Mods selected to be active placed in the /mods directory have highest priority. If none of these exist,
the game uses the packaged 01 - 04.dat files in your root directory. If these have been moved or deleted,
the game has no choice but to look for unpackaged files in folders.

So if you want to make the game use a .xml file you've placed in an unpacked /mov folder, you need to move the original .dats out of the root directory and run the game using completely unpacked files. You should have them all since you did unpack 01 - 04.dat in order starting with 01.dat right? (That way newer files overwrite older ones in case of the same file being in two .dats
Does that make sense?

I updated this guide to reflect this knowledge
http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?p=480309

XeHonk · Post by **XeHonk** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 01:46

he was trying to pack the file
.. but he packed it wrong

that's the whole problem imho ^^

Burianek · Post by **Burianek** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 01:52

Right,
pack it correctly or run the game in unpacked mode.
(Sorry, I got a little carried away off topic

)

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 01:52

I was not trying to pack the file. I was trying to do this the right way and it didn't work. Of course I immediately began to consider doing it the wrong way.

I don't mind playing with unpacked files but I would rather it function as a mod so I can upload it for other people to use.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I am not the only one who would rather not know that the fighter drone has left firing range for the 73rd time in the last 4 minutes.

Burianek · Post by **Burianek** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 01:55

"Packing the file' refers to making a .dat / .cat combo out of it so that other users can use it easily.

You'd make a /temp dir
make a /mov dir in it (since that's where the .xml file belongs
Don't run gzip or x2tool -crypt, I don't think it's needed.
Back out to the dir that contains /temp that you created
run X2build temp temp
you'll get temp.cat and temp.dat that should contain your file.
I think the prob before was that you didn't have the directory structure right.
Think of the .dat file as a .zip that will be extracted to the /x2 directory. You need the files to be placed in the right location.

Blood Guzzlin Pete · Post by **Blood Guzzlin Pete** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 02:02

Thanks, I'll do that. Maybe you could add the info to the sticky.

Bezredahl · Post by **Bezredahl** » Sun, 27. Jun 04, 08:03

A: They both burn up and are destroyed by the friction!