Post by Teknoman on Jun 5, 2008 21:33:01 GMT
Well... after a long time im back on the tutorials board with something fresh.
I saw that new modders release their mods with manual installers (user need to copy and paste each file) but there is a way to make it easier for the final user.
Once you have your mod finished and woking you need to recreate the folder tree where the file is located and then compress it... confusing?... i guess yes, i'll try to explain it step bu step.
Lets say my table mod has 3 files:
- Table.3ds
- Table.jpg
- Leg.jpg
All those files are located at C:\Program Files\MDickie\Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)\Items [Look at the Address Bar on your Explorer]. Now if i want to copy those 3 files inside Items folder just by uncompressing the zip (or rar) file you need to recreate the folder structure but not everyone in this site uses english based Windows (me included) and not everyone installs the game in C:\ so to avoid the problem of folder names (mainly with "Program Files" folder 'cause it has a different name for every language) we will use the main folder of the game "Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)" as the root (root means the folder where evrything else is located).
1. Create a new folder and name it Items
2. Now inside this folder copy and paste all the files of your mod.
Now go back to the root folder (the root would be the folder we create before... "/Items", select that folder and compress it.
The file is create and once the user uncompress the 3 files will be automatically inside "/Items". but you need to say where the root folder is located, in this case we used "Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)" as the root so the user need to uncompress the zipped file inside that folder... where the .exe of the game is located.
An when you open (not uncompress) the zip file you will see that the Table mod is inside a folder named Items.
So if you want to use C:\ as the root you need to create all those folders: Program Files\MDickie\Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)\Items.
here is an screenshot
Hope you understood.
I saw that new modders release their mods with manual installers (user need to copy and paste each file) but there is a way to make it easier for the final user.
Once you have your mod finished and woking you need to recreate the folder tree where the file is located and then compress it... confusing?... i guess yes, i'll try to explain it step bu step.
Lets say my table mod has 3 files:
- Table.3ds
- Table.jpg
- Leg.jpg
All those files are located at C:\Program Files\MDickie\Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)\Items [Look at the Address Bar on your Explorer]. Now if i want to copy those 3 files inside Items folder just by uncompressing the zip (or rar) file you need to recreate the folder structure but not everyone in this site uses english based Windows (me included) and not everyone installs the game in C:\ so to avoid the problem of folder names (mainly with "Program Files" folder 'cause it has a different name for every language) we will use the main folder of the game "Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)" as the root (root means the folder where evrything else is located).
1. Create a new folder and name it Items
2. Now inside this folder copy and paste all the files of your mod.
Now go back to the root folder (the root would be the folder we create before... "/Items", select that folder and compress it.
The file is create and once the user uncompress the 3 files will be automatically inside "/Items". but you need to say where the root folder is located, in this case we used "Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)" as the root so the user need to uncompress the zipped file inside that folder... where the .exe of the game is located.
An when you open (not uncompress) the zip file you will see that the Table mod is inside a folder named Items.
So if you want to use C:\ as the root you need to create all those folders: Program Files\MDickie\Wrestling MPire 2008 (Career Edition)\Items.
here is an screenshot
Hope you understood.
