Whats the best Pretender MOD?

[Skirmisher]

Originally Posted by Foodstamp

Time to take it off the list of mods imo

Just copy the contents into your "mods" folder.

I did that.

It was in dominions3/mods/mythology

It made its own directory.
However it doesnt work.

Thats probably my biggest beef with modding.
Alot of the stuff doesn't work as advertised.

[Endoperez]

Try putting the files from dominions3/mods/mythology to dominions3/mods/.

The important thing is having the file that ends in ".dm" in your dominions3/mods folder. Then it will show up properly. If there's a folder for images, it also has to go into dominions3/mods, but just moving everything all at once should work fine.

Sometimes the .dm is in a subdirectory, just open it and you should see the .dm and the image folder. Move them to \mods, together, and it hopefully works.

[Skirmisher]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

Try putting the files from dominions3/mods/mythology to dominions3/mods/.

The important thing is having the file that ends in ".dm" in your dominions3/mods folder. Then it will show up properly.

That's the ticket thank you. that .dm file was NOT in the mod directory.

[Gandalf Parker]

Many of the mods dont package standardly. Some put everything (.dm images text etc) in the MOD dir. Some start the package within its own directory (forcing you to move the .dm out), some start in the mod dir as the base path, some start in the dominions3 dir as the base path which causes it to create a MOD dir beneath the MOD dir if you unpack it in the MOD dir as you would many of them.

A menu option, or a third party program, would be nice for creating a standard package. Or even a section in the MOD FAQ with some recommendations. In particular Id like to see an effort to enforce a mod-name-README.txt with at least basic description in a nice standardized format. Maybe the CBM authors could set something up.
(yeah I know, ME of all people preaching standards)

But never the less, some of the best mods available need some understanding of the desired structure in order to move things around alittle bit to make them work.

Gandalf Parker
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[Foodstamp]

Originally Posted by Endoperez

Try putting the files from dominions3/mods/mythology to dominions3/mods/.

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That is what I meant, but I should have been clearer.