Ridgerunner said:
O.K. I got my laptop back, and I downloaded the turrets patch to the desktop. Could someone please give me moron instructions how to get it into the game without F-ing everything up again? Pleeeeeeeease?
Oh dear, Umm, how do I explain this in a way that you'll understand it.
MamiyaOtaru, I'd really rather you did this one. I can show it, I can do it in my sleep, but to tell him how in simple English?
Unzip the file turretsPatch.zip into a temporary directory.
You should be able to do that by right clicking on the file and telling it WHERE you want to unzip the file.
Once you have the file unzipped in a temp directory, look at the directory structure of the files. It SHOULD be:
Temp (or turretsPatch it depends on your unzipping programme and how you have it configured.) I'll call it temp
Temp
|__cockpits
|. . . . . . |__turretrear-cockpit.cpt (sub directory of cockpits)
|. . . . . . . . . . . . |__turretrear-cockpit.cpt (file in turretrear-cockpit.cpt directory)
|__units
. . . . . |__units.csv
. . . . . |__subunits (sub directory of units)
. . . . . . . . . . |__mediumrear-turret (sub directory of subunits)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |__turretgunsmall.bfxm (file in mediumrear-turret directory)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |__turretsmall.bfxm (file in mediumrear-turret directory)
Place each of the files contained in these directories or folders in the same directories or folders of your privateer directory. It's that simple.
Assume that temp is your Privateer or Priv directory.
Using drag and drop, COPY the CONTENTS of these directories into the directories with the same names.
You could drag and drop these folders into your privateer directory, but not knowing your system and how it's configured, you could do the same thing all over again.
As long as you only overwrite the FILES you're okay. You replaced the entire directory structure with your unzipping programme last time, wiping out all the other files and directories.
If you COPY these directories into your privateer directory you only overwrite files of the same name, not the entire directory structure. You want to overwrite the CONTENTS of the directories, not the directories themselves.