Constitution, Miranda, Hero & Iowa Class (FO 3.1.3)

posted on October 14th, 2010, 7:46 am

Not sure about Windows 7, but in XP, if you do not enable Explorer showing file extensions then Windows likes to hide them.  If you call a file a.odf in notepad it will happily save it as a.odf.txt because it thinks you don't want to know about the extension.

Go into explorer and turn off this idiotic feature... can't help you with exactly how in Win 7... do a google.

posted on October 14th, 2010, 12:02 pm

welcome to the forums yospanky.

go control panel, switch to icons view, click folder options. Find the list of checkboxes tab. Then uncheck hide file extensions.

Hope u enjoy your time at fleetops.

posted on October 14th, 2010, 1:51 pm

Heh, thanks for that Myles.  I have been wondering about that.  I hadn't taken the time to figure it out, so thanks for making it easy for me.

posted on October 14th, 2010, 4:17 pm

I am very new to these forums. You guys are good, and I am a n00b.
So here is my problem. I am using Windows 7, and I am following the instructions on the notepad.
My first attempt is to add the lines to the first odf file. Sounds simple enough, but unfortunately for me,
windows 7 saves it as a .txt file instead of a .odf file... Any suggestions for my brain dead inabilities?

Do you do 'Save As' instead of Save? If you do regular save it should keep the original extension. As with regards to Saving, if it still doesn't keep the extension. Do File>Save As, then replace in the drop down menu 'Plain Text File (.txt)' with 'All Files' and be sure the odf extension is kept.

If that doesn't work, get Open Office or Notepad++.

It is necessary to know that with Win 7 the original parts of the game engine still have tangles with some copies of Win 7. Some people who even have the same version of Win 7 encounter different problems and scenarios. If you have problems that can't be solved with bug fixing from the devs, then it is likely W7.

posted on October 14th, 2010, 10:07 pm

Hey guys thanks for the quick feedback. My monkey brain figured it out, it was really a simple problem of not choosing 'Notepad' as the program to open the .odf file. heh  It works great! I'm sure I have some kinda error when entering the new data because the game doesn't say... "____ answered your distress call" I don't play competitive multiplayer online, this is pretty much all single-player fun. Keep on modding guys thanks!

[Tyler]

posted on October 14th, 2010, 10:15 pm

Last edited by Tyler on October 14th, 2010, 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I see the problem, I forgot the 'events' file information in the mod. Added a new .rar with the correct entries in.

Notepad is one of the easiest programs to edit odfs with.

posted on October 15th, 2010, 9:47 am

yup as tyler said notepad can handle odf perfectly. The issue was with windoze 7 not allowing u to change file extensions.

posted on October 25th, 2010, 8:47 pm

I'll stick with my Federation class




And of course a refrence for those that read TOS novels.......

'Moving the Moose, ma'am'

posted on October 25th, 2010, 8:52 pm

those models are awful

nearly as bad as 8bit

posted on October 25th, 2010, 8:54 pm

They're fighting beneath a Tholian web!!!!

posted on October 25th, 2010, 10:29 pm

the federation class model isn't bad.  its just that its in stock a2 is all.

posted on October 25th, 2010, 10:31 pm

They're fighting beneath a Tholian web!!!!

RTS_cfg has fun options.

And Myles, they're SFC series models from 10+ years ago that were converted..... what do ya expect (well the star empire is, dunno were the Fed class came from)

posted on December 6th, 2010, 12:33 pm

Damn i love that connie and miranda. Sometimes i wish, i could just build those miranda's together with the original excelsiors..(perhaps an update )

posted on December 7th, 2010, 7:50 pm

Sov, when was the last time you checked these?

Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - Project Progress

Apocrypha - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations

posted on May 28th, 2011, 6:37 am

I can't seem to get this to work, some of the files, like the consitution and miranda sod files are corrupted...help please?