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MOD - Creating a planet 0.980
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Monday, 24.10.2016, 04:41 | Message # 241 |
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| JackDole, There is no dot at the end of my file. The only thing I notice is that some of my SE files are saved under a different drive:
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| JackDole | Date: Monday, 24.10.2016, 04:50 | Message # 242 |
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| TheSpaceLeviathan,
then copy the folder 'addons' into the 'SpaceEngine' directory on this drive.
Maybe that helps.
Don't forget to look here.
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Monday, 24.10.2016, 05:14 | Message # 243 |
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| JackDole, This still isn't working. I will try again tomorrow, but I'm going to get some rest today.
I'm also going to reinstall the game. Maybe it will work after that.
Edited by TheSpaceLeviathan - Monday, 24.10.2016, 13:30 |
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Monday, 24.10.2016, 21:50 | Message # 244 |
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| I think I have officially given up. After even reinstalling the entire game, My star system still will not show up.
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| JackDole | Date: Monday, 24.10.2016, 22:29 | Message # 245 |
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Star Engineer
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| Have you installed Space Engine on the C: drive?
Install it on another drive. For example, on D:
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 02:21 | Message # 246 |
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| JackDole, I just installed it onto my D: drive, and some things were looking different and more like they should, but when I tried to make my planet, it once again did not show up. One thing I noticed that was different was that instead o the planet orbiting around RS #-#-#-#..., it said it was orbiting around A. However when i changed "A" to "Chara," I still came to the same results.
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 03:04 | Message # 247 |
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| JackDole, wait... is this file supposed to be a notepad file???
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| Ostarisk | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 03:19 | Message # 248 |
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| TheSpaceLeviathan, No, the type says it is a PAK file. the icon is there to show that It can be opened with notepad.
My mods
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 03:39 | Message # 249 |
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| Ostarisk, Ah okay. I hope to be able to get mods soon though.
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| JackDole | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 13:27 | Message # 250 |
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| TheSpaceLeviathan,
a '.pak' file is an archive file, just like a '.zip' file.
More specifically, a '.pak' file is a '.zip' file that has been renamed to '.pak'.
You can easily create a '.pak' file yourself.
You just need to create a '.zip' file and rename it to '.pak'.
The folder structure in the '.pak' file is the same as the subfolders in the folder in which it belongs.
The 'Catalogs0980.pak' belongs to the 'data\catalogs' folder, so the top level of its structure is as follows:
A '.pak' file for an addon, which usually simply belongs to the 'addons' directory, has, for example, these structures:
Code catalogs\clusters
\nebulae
\planets
\star
models\nebulae
There may be more subfolders, for example, for galaxies and spaceships and so on.
If you make a copy of a '.pak' file and rename it in '.zip', you can view the contents in the Windows Explorer.
Don't forget to look here.
Edited by JackDole - Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 13:28 |
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 13:44 | Message # 251 |
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| JackDole, When I open up Catalogs0980.pak, it opens in notepad and shows this:
And when I try to compress it so that it shows me the contents in a folder-like structure, it just does this:
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| JackDole | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 13:57 | Message # 252 |
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Star Engineer
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| You can not open a '.pak' file with notepad.
You can open it with an archive program such as 7-Zip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/
Or, if you change the extension '.pak' to '.zip', as I said, you can open it directly in Windows File Explorer. With a double click!
Don't forget to look here.
Edited by JackDole - Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 13:59 |
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| TheSpaceLeviathan | Date: Tuesday, 25.10.2016, 21:59 | Message # 253 |
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| JackDole, Thank you so much for your help!
I actually ended up opening notepad and editing things in there, then I went into "File" then "Save As..." and saved it to my planets subfolder after making it so that it was a SC file rather than a text document. What I was doing before was going into the planets folder, right clicking anywhere, and just making a text document that I named "MySystem.sc."
My new planet:
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| JackDole | Date: Wednesday, 26.10.2016, 14:08 | Message # 254 |
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Star Engineer
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| TheSpaceLeviathan,
actually, I do not quite understand it, it should have worked with the first method. I sometimes do it myself this way.
But main thing, it works now!
Don't forget to look here.
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| sgcommand92 | Date: Wednesday, 26.10.2016, 14:31 | Message # 255 |
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Group: Newbies
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| If known file extensions aren't set to be visible, naming a text document "MySystem.sc" will result in "MySystem.sc.txt", so it can't be read by SpaceEngine. By default, Save As in Notepad is also set to .txt, which will result in the same problem. This can be solved by setting the file extension in the Save As dialog to "all files".
You can also make all extensions visible, then rename it in Windows Explorer to change .txt to .sc. Google it to find the right options, as it depends on the OS version, and I can't show pictures right now.
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