Fyron's Quadrant Mod Discussion Thread

ArchAngel7 · #1 November 18th, 2002, 04:13 AM

Well, I went to the PBW site, logged in, and spent 20 minutes downloading this file only to realize it wasn't in a .zip format and I couldn't even open it or extract it to the SEIV directory!

Fyron · #2 November 18th, 2002, 04:27 AM

Rename the file and add .zip to the end of it.

geoschmo · #3 November 18th, 2002, 05:28 AM

I have corrected the link on PBW so it will have the .zip extension on it when it's downloaded from now on.

Lord Blam · #4 November 21st, 2002, 07:46 PM

My apologies if this is a dumb question, but I've read an awful lot of Posts and not found a solution to my problem.

I am using SE4G 1.78 and installed both Fyron's Quadrant Mod Deluxe 2.00 as instructed, and the latest planetary image mod pak (ver 1.8) (apparently as instructed in its sparse documentation -- I extracted the zip into the /pictures/planets subdir).

When I generate a new quadrant map, everything works as expected in FQMD except that none of the 'new' planetary graphics show up on my system view screen. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

Suicide Junkie · #5 November 21st, 2002, 07:53 PM

When you unzip the planetpack you will get a file called "newplanets.bmp" You need to replace your planets.bmp with the new file.

You can delete planets.bmp and then rename newplanets.bmp.

I did it that way so that the zip wouldn't overwrite any files when it was installed. It seems to be too much of a hassle for the end Users, so I think I'll change that to automatically replace planets.bmp from now on.

Lord Blam · #6 November 21st, 2002, 08:02 PM

Thanks...an easy fix, and now I've got it working beatifully.

ArchAngel7 · #7 November 23rd, 2002, 08:41 PM

Great job IF! I have noticed a problem with missing pics/info. I created a dense cluster - 248 systems, 3005 planets. The following systems all had the same error. Planets X and XI were missing pics and under Atmosphere it said NA. The systems were: Aldron, Celestine, Cron, Da'Lush, Double Helix, Estonia, Hachioji, Legaer, Lermontov, Melcil, Morak, PiPowwed, Recalde, Seimei, Strackea, Tharsis, Ugrumph, and Wanduk. If this is something I can fix on my own please let me know. Thanks.