Help! Advice on where to start with modding
Help! Advice on where to start with modding
Hi everyone this is my first time posting on here ( I have on pckf before though) and ive been playing keen 4 since i was 3 and have recently been mucking around with mods and fanmade games. But i was interested about where to start with modding as i love the series so much i would like to try some.
Any help would be appreciated thanks.
Any help would be appreciated thanks.
Hi there, glad to see you're jumping right into Galaxy modding. The first place to start is Ceilick's comprehensive tutorial. And if you're looking for some inspiration, check out the entirety of the Galaxy mods so far, almost all of them are worth a play.
If you still have any question after that (chances are you will), be sure to ask!
If you still have any question after that (chances are you will), be sure to ask!
Yep, I'll agree with Draik on this (unbiasedly, of course ;-p). Be sure to grab it from http://0x27.com/downloads/tom.zip since the link in the tutorial is out of date. If you have trouble, chances are your problem may already have been addressed in TOM's own thread, but if not I'll be happy to help you sort it out.
In section 1 of the keen modding tutorial where it says:
Now, open a command prompt. To do this, go to your computer's start button, and either click 'run', or in the search field type 'run' and click the first result. In the run box, type 'cmd'. Now you have a command prompt open.
You'll see something like C:\Users\UserName>
Type: cd desktop/Keen Modding/My Mod/modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"
My computer "cannot find the path specified" in the command prompt.
So any ideas?
Now, open a command prompt. To do this, go to your computer's start button, and either click 'run', or in the search field type 'run' and click the first result. In the run box, type 'cmd'. Now you have a command prompt open.
You'll see something like C:\Users\UserName>
Type: cd desktop/Keen Modding/My Mod/modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"
My computer "cannot find the path specified" in the command prompt.
So any ideas?
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Oh, the command should probably be split, like the following (also using \ instead of /):
cd "desktop\Keen Modding\My Mod"
modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"
As for the quotation marks around the directory names, they may not be necessary, but it somehow feels safer for me when the are spaces within directory names.
cd "desktop\Keen Modding\My Mod"
modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"
As for the quotation marks around the directory names, they may not be necessary, but it somehow feels safer for me when the are spaces within directory names.
You need to have your Keen modding folder on your desktop in order for this to work, otherwise the command line points to a place that doesn't exist. If you want to have your keen modding folder elsewhere, you will need to direct the command prompt to that location instead.Does it matter where i have my keen modding folder?
Please post exactly what you're typing in the command prompt/dosbox; I can't think of any reason why this isn't working other than typing it wrong. Again, the command is:
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modkeen -episode=4 -export -bmpdir="graphics"