Proportions Mod: Multiplayer anyone? - Page 14

PvK · #**131** April 5th, 2002, 01:28 AM

Game started!

To show ships of players with non-built-in ship sets correctly, be sure to extract their shipsets from PBW to your Proportions/Pictures/Races folder, under their appropriate names. You probably want to delete their AI files from those directories, though. If you have those races in your non-Proportions pictures directory, I think you can just put in an empty folder with the name of the shipset in the Proportions/pictures/races directory, and it'll work.

If anyone's confused by that or would like a giant file with all the needed shipsets, let me know.

PvK

Cargus10 · #**132** April 5th, 2002, 05:15 PM

Aargh! I can't get the pvkprop1 game to load

I've put it in the Savegame folder, but I get a generic "cannot load" error when I try. Anyone have any ideas?

Cargus10 (aka Greenstar in the PBW forums)

Gorgo · #**133** April 5th, 2002, 06:42 PM

Do you have the correct Version of the Proportions Mod installed?
Have you created you .emp file with the correct Version or maybe with an older Version of the Mod?

PsychoTechFreak · #**134** April 5th, 2002, 06:52 PM

You have to unzip the file, have you ?

Edit: The file does not necessarily show up as a zip, but it is a zip. Right-click on it and send it to your zip manager program.

[ 05 April 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

Cargus10 · #**135** April 5th, 2002, 07:53 PM

Yep, I've unzipped it, and yep, I have 2.0 installed - I pulled it off the Proportions website the day it was posted there.

Cargus10 · #**136** April 5th, 2002, 07:55 PM

Speaking of the .emp file - where must it reside? In the Savegames folder as well?

oleg · #**137** April 5th, 2002, 07:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Cargus10:
Speaking of the .emp file - where must it reside? In the Savegames folder as well?

No, in Empires folder.

geoschmo · #**138** April 5th, 2002, 08:29 PM

If you can't open the first turn it has nothing to do with your .emp file. It's probably the path.txt has not been changed to use the proportions mod. Normally this gives an error about not having the same data files, but in the case of proportions you get the genaric "Cannot open" error. Probably because of the changes tot the racial traits file is my guess. Any way, my guess is edit the path.txt file, or use the modpicker and you will have no problems.

Geoschmo

PvK · #**139** April 5th, 2002, 08:36 PM

Yes, although the .emp file is needed to actually play a PBW game, just to start it up. I should have seen an error when I set up the game if the .emp were bad. It sounds like the "cannot load game" error that comes up when the current Path file points to a Version that is quite different from the mod the game turn was created with. He says he's been able to run Proportions though by himself.

I think the advice would be to back up or remove his current Proportions folder, and re-install Proportions. Perhaps, for instance, his zip extractor didn't create the right sub-folders, or didn't extract all of the files, or he was browsing the Prop data files and inadvertantly changed something, or something along those lines.

PvK

Cargus10 · #**140** April 5th, 2002, 09:56 PM

OK - probablyu I messed up something when I tried to import the shipsets - every shipset people are using had different pathing information, and it's possible I moved soemthign to the wrong place. I'll just re-install Proportions 2.0 and try again - but it won't be until late tonigth before I can try, as I have tickets to the Braves-Mets game tonight