[REL] PA Alpha Client Mod Manager

Try opening PA Alpha Mod Manager.exe.config as plain text (so with any text editor) and try setting the path manually. Mine looks like this

Code:

      <setting name="PADirectory" serializeAs="String">
        <value>C:\Program Files (x86)\Planetary Annihilation</value>
      </setting>

The new zip you have packaged is packaged wrong. It should only have the content that is within /media so your .zip would have the folders "pa" and "shaders" at the root, along with info.txt.

I went ahead and tried fixing it, but it doesn't seem to play nice with the mod manager. It simply doesn't work. But when I extract it directly, it works fine so that part is my fault. I'm looking in to it.

It's probably my fault as well. I tried the automatic packager, but it complained about something being wrong with my .Net installation so i tried to package it manually instead. Clearly I made a mistake.

I am not impressed.

Right. That just means that you need .NET 4.5. The only reason you need 4.5, is because any prior .NET versions don't have native zip support. I could probably quite easily find a zip library that runs on .NET 3.0 or even 2.0, and then there wouldn't really be any problems. I would go do that, except that keeping your .NET stuff up to date is useful for future cases with other applications.

You can find it here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

Also, yeah. I had no idea who he was talking about when he said "yourlolcat's"

Thing is, according to my Programs and Features panel, I already have the 4.5 .NET framework. In fact I have every form of .NET framework under the sun. And yet, for some reason, a large number of automatic installers seem to keep on feeling the need to reinstall it from scratch every time i run certain programs.

I suspect the installation of them is borked somehow, and I should just uninstall the lot, and reinstall from scratch. I've just not got round to it yet.

I'm so sorry! I thought I was going to try your name by memory off of the top of my head... I'll be avoiding doing that from now on

as for the .zip I made I think I this case my zip was right before I changed it.

As for the app it still crashes if it isn't being run for the first time after being unpaked on a fresh boot. ... for both.

I don't get it because you have win 8 too.

Did you try manually editing your path I suggested? Also, what is a crash? You just say it crashes? What do you mean? What happens?

Also, yes you had the format correct before.

yes I edited the path manually but it only runs once anyhow.

After when i execute it (as an administrator), it appears in the task manager as a backround process then dies.

I made my two strategic icon mods (#1 #2) compatible.

By the way, the mod packager didn't seem to work, it crashed on launch. I do have .NET 4.5 and launched it as administrator, but it crashed with no message. Doesn't really matter, was perfectly easy to do manually.

guys sorry for being stupid, but ive tried about 1000things and i cant get this to work with steam? i cant find my pa directory, or it doesnt like the one i try and use

I don't think its meant to work with Steam... I use steam for vanilla and Uber client for mods.

Why you think so?

Only Steam difference specific it's game executable linked with Steamworks and use it for user authentication.

Do you have any idea how to make the mod manger work?

I decompiled mod manager binary and checked what's wrong: manager trying to find "PA" subfolder in folder you choose also will try to run "PA/PA.exe" file instead of just PA.exe. Actually I can recompile it, but I'm hate .Net and it's need to be fixed by author anyway.

jacoby6000 It's was fun to read your warnings in source code a lot... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

PS: Probably I need to find github link before. :lol:

Heh, I didn't realize anybody actually used this.

Anyway, the new modding system makes this thing (almost) completely obsolete. There's really no reason to use it anymore. The only things it could possibly help with, are mods that edit game assets (models, icons, etc

As for steam, it should work just fine assuming the steam directory setup is the same as the PA launcher directory setup

It's not same. As long as I remember Steam doesn't have "PA" directory inside.
Strange that you hardcoded it's this way.

PS: You only use .Net, or anything other too?

For steam, I wasn't sure if it maybe was like steamapps/common/Planetary Annihilation/...

This is stricly .Net (C#), but I also know php, html, javascript (jquery, angular, node...), java, C++, lua, a little bit of pascal, and I am a master of the almighty Expression 2 (see wiremod). Right now the job I'm at has me doing C#/ASP.NET, but I just got offered another job doing a variety of things.

Check PM please.

My directory is in D inside steamapps common, its not accepted as a valid directory...

Try using the new mod manager instead.
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-pa-mod-manager-v2-0-2.50726/