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ok..................... I downloaded the Herc Mk III..................... how do I use the bloddy thing?

basically you need to learn how to table edit. This time the VP View section of my FAQ is the place to start.

ok, I'm workin' on it. thnx neway else that i need 2 kno about?

uh............ sry, but that just confused that crap outa me................ I don't get it. I'll keep tryin' at it, but i just wanted to kno how to use the downloaded ships in a game...... Is that this complicated?

You will need the VPView32, like Kara said you can get it in his Faq, here is a link to the VPView Guide.

http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hoste ... vptut.html

Ok... brief as I can be, cos I'm at work;

FS2 stores information in tbl files; for example, ships.tbl lists the details of every ship in the game (name, model, hitpoints, speed, whether the player can fly it, etc). You need to add a new entry in this (unless the mod comes with its own table file)

The actual ship models - what you see on screen - are saved in .pof files. Also, the textures for the ship are pcx files. You need to either put these files in the data directory, or data/maps (for textures) and data/models (ships).

Finally, you often have VP files; VP files basically store a bunch of other files in one handy package (a wee bit like a zip file, but uncompressed). In order to edit tbl files - or any other existing game data - you need to extract it from the VP file. VPView is the program that does that.

Hope that helps out.

thnx, I'll try to figure it out. thnx every1

yea, just so u kno... that last 1 was me