Grognak's Mod Manager v1.7 (Updated March 6, 2013!)

[BaldingPuma]

Okay i'm new to all this modding stuff and trying to go through this whole thread did not go well but can someone help me figure out just how to run and install this mod manager on windows 7, probably really simple but im stumped

[Whale Cancer]

Okay i'm new to all this modding stuff and trying to go through this whole thread did not go well but can someone help me figure out just how to run and install this mod manager on windows 7, probably really simple but im stumped

Extract into the same directory as FTL.

Done.

Edit: Oh, and put any mods in the 'mods' folder that is extract along with the mod manager.

[Dragnar Dragon-Blood]

ok i have installed this and i have the scrap mod that came with it and a star wars star destroyer mod but now my game wont run it will stop working before it even gets to the main menu. please help.

[Whale Cancer]

ok i have installed this and i have the scrap mod that came with it and a star wars star destroyer mod but now my game wont run it will stop working before it even gets to the main menu. please help.

Ask the developer of the Star Wars destroyer mod, sounds like a faulty mod.

[Dragnar Dragon-Blood]

ok i have installed this and i have the scrap mod that came with it and a star wars star destroyer mod but now my game wont run it will stop working before it even gets to the main menu. please help.

Ask the developer of the Star Wars destroyer mod, sounds like a faulty mod.

no ive seen people use it it works but i might have done something wrong and im looking for suggestions as to what i may have done

[SicleFire]

Okay I open the main.py and it come up with a text box and not any GUI. I believe I installed the mod tool right and I'm mac. Any help?

[BaldingPuma]

Okay i'm new to all this modding stuff and trying to go through this whole thread did not go well but can someone help me figure out just how to run and install this mod manager on windows 7, probably really simple but im stumped

Extract into the same directory as FTL.

Done.

Edit: Oh, and put any mods in the 'mods' folder that is extract along with the mod manager.

Ok but then i try to run the mod manager and all i get is a blank black screen

[melajo2021]

Help.Every time i start modman.exe i select my mods and then modman.exe starts to unpack it can install the mod i have but then when it gets to the second mod its say permission denied.Does anyone know how to fix it.

[SGR_Zonemaster]

um for me modman.exe is a virus (backdoor)

can i have a direct or one that is not infected!

[Zorael]

Tried on linux and ran into some obstacles. Distro was Kubuntu 12.10 amd64, python reported version 2.7.3.

First, main.py:407 looks for realpath[:realpath.rindex("\\")].

Code: Select all

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 407, in <module>
    dir_root = realpath[:realpath.rindex("\\")]
ValueError: substring not found

I think it might be better to use os.path.dirname() here instead. Slicing by index of '\\' sounds like it would only work in Windows...? (Has anyone gotten it to work in linux, or OSX for that matter?)

Second, the linux instructions are very confusing;

To install the mod manager itself, unzip all of the files in the archive and move them into the folder:
Windows: in which FTLGame.exe resides.
Mac OS X: in which FTL_README.html resides.
Linux: in which FTL resides.

The FTL tarballs extract into a directory called FTL, which in turn has a shell script in it also named FTL. This script moves into the subdirectory data and runs *another* shell script also called FTL. That one checks what architecture is in use, then navigates into either amd64/bin or x86/bin, and finally the real FTL executable binary (one of the two). So there's a lot of FTLs.

src/readme.txt is even less helpful! :3

Mac and Linux users, copy all of these files to the correct directory. After that, just run main.py and you should be set.

(It turns out you want them in: FTL/data/)