MrHoody wrote:Macspt wrote:Hey Grognak,
I'm sorry mate...could you dumb it down even further for me? I'm currently stuck at the Launch File stage and I can't seem to get the terminal to do ANYTHING at all :\ Thanks in advance to whichever kind soul decides to help!
Section 3: Creating a Launch File
When you need to use GMM to add or remove mods, you have to use Python. Python is a programming language which comes with Mac OS X. Using Python requires some very basic knowledge of "Terminal". Terminal is a command line utility that is also included with OS X. Think of "Terminal" as the "Dos Prompt" of Windows. Many people are not comfortable with Terminal, so it may be easier to simply create a "command" file to launch GMM. If you are more familiar with Windows, consider a command file the Linux/Unix version of a batch file. (*.bat)
A couple words about the "Terminal". Like MS-DOS, you cannot mouse click in the Terminal. You have to use your mouse keys to move the cursor around if you make a spelling mistake. In Terminal if you don't type in a command and simply press ENTER, it just goes down to the next prompt. The same thing also happens when you succesfully run a command.
1. Open your Mac hard drive icon from the desktop.
2. Open the Applications folder, and the Utilities folder.
3. Double click the utility "Terminal" to launch it. You should have open a white box that reads "Terminal-Bash"
4. Now type the following into Terminal.
echo "python <---(echo)(space)(quotes)(python)
5. Now, drag the "main.py" file from the "Contents" folder inside the FTL.app into the terminal window. If you do it right, it should populate the folder or hard drive path to that file. Mine looks like this.
echo "python /HD/Applications/FTL.app/Contents/main.py
6. Now finish up the command by adding the following items to the terminal window.
echo "python /HD/Applications/FTL.app/Contents/main.py" > ~/desktop/GMM.command <--(include the quotes)
7. Now if your press ENTER, it should create a file called GMM.command on your desktop.
8. The Terminal windows should have returned to it's default prompt after you ran the command succesfully. You still need to change the permissions on the command file so you can use it.
9. In the terminal type the following:
chmod 700
10. Drag the Gmm.command file from your desktop into the Terminal window, and it should again auto populate the path to the file.
chmod 700 ~/desktop/GMM.command
11. Press ENTER, and Terminal will just return to it's default prompt if it processed the command succesfully.
12. Now test the file by double clicking GMM.command on the desktop. If it launches GMM, you did everything right.
13. Last step. Move the GMM.command file somewhere safe so it does not accidentally get deleted. I placed mine in my "Documents" folder, and then dragged the file to my doc to create a shortcut.
When you double click GMM.command, it is going to open a small box named "tk", another "Terminal" window, and a prompt from GMM asking you if "Did you purchase FTL through Steam?". Simply click YES or NO to the prompt. Close out the "tk" box because you don't need it. Select the mods you want to load by Command+Clicking on them, and then click the PATCH button. Once the patching is complete, you will get another prompt stating "Patching completed successfully". Click OK, close all open windows, and launch your game as you normally would.
