Hardware & Technical Adding mods to video games like FSX and Minecraft are a pain, and aren't as easy as you see them on tutorials.

[AluminumAlloy]

Adding mods to video games like FSX and Minecraft are a pain, and aren't as easy as you see them on tutorials.

Disclaimer: I am not attempting to add a mod into ED and/or any Frontier Developments-related games.

I just completely lost it after trying my very last time to add any kind of "file-folder thing" game modification whatsoever for any video game. That's the last time I ever attempt this for the next 5 to 10 years until a new technology develops and becomes popular enough where you don't have to place mods manually, neither do I want to hear the good ol' fashioned "just open up winRAR and unzip!" saying, which has turned out as the most annoying encounter you can find on mod installation tutorials yet. It won't be impossible, because iv'e seen an automatic-mod installation prototype for BeamNG.drive.

I was given a .zip folder to download as a livery modification for one of the default planes on FSX: Steam Edition, and wouldn't you know it--It showed up as a .can folder instead? And what's worse is that it automatically directed the folder into the "My Pictures" section! Not once have I ever seen that in a tutorial video, how is that supposed to happen?

Despite me following through entire tutorial videos for adding mods to games, everything will look entirely normal until at some point one of the files/directories won't be the same as theirs in the video. I'm sorry, but I just don't understand how people don't have these issues with modding--My PC was bought non-used and non-rigged from a reputable computer store, and it was custom-built by the technicians themselves. Since then not once have I ever messed around with directories and whatever else that could cause issues like these.

Thoughts welcome.

 

[Minonian]

Disclaimer: I am not attempting to add a mod into ED and/or any Frontier Developments-related games.

I just completely lost it after trying my very last time to add any kind of "file-folder thing" game modification whatsoever for any video game. That's the last time I ever attempt this for the next 5 to 10 years until a new technology develops and becomes popular enough where you don't have to place mods manually, neither do I want to hear the good ol' fashioned "just open up winRAR and unzip!" saying, which has turned out as the most annoying encounter you can find on mod installation tutorials yet. It won't be impossible, because iv'e seen an automatic-mod installation prototype for BeamNG.drive.

I was given a .zip folder to download as a livery modification for one of the default planes on FSX: Steam Edition, and wouldn't you know it--It showed up as a .can folder instead? And what's worse is that it automatically directed the folder into the "My Pictures" section! Not once have I ever seen that in a tutorial video, how is that supposed to happen?

Despite me following through entire tutorial videos for adding mods to games, everything will look entirely normal until at some point one of the files/directories won't be the same as theirs in the video. I'm sorry, but I just don't understand how people don't have these issues with modding--My PC was bought non-used and non-rigged from a reputable computer store, and it was custom-built by the technicians themselves. Since then not once have I ever messed around with directories and whatever else that could cause issues like these.

Thoughts welcome.

that's why we have mod managers like Nexus for bethesda games. And sorry but i have no idea if there is any for minecraft i played a lot with it, but never used any mod just vanilla.
I think that game have a good power balance, and its diverse enough to not need any.

But i suggest to look after it it's popular enough even in these days.

Here is one.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-tools/1262623-mod-manager

 

[AluminumAlloy]

Disclaimer: I am not attempting to add a mod into ED and/or any Frontier Developments-related games.

I just completely lost it after trying my very last time to add any kind of "file-folder thing" game modification whatsoever for any video game. That's the last time I ever attempt this for the next 5 to 10 years until a new technology develops and becomes popular enough where you don't have to place mods manually, neither do I want to hear the good ol' fashioned "just open up winRAR and unzip!" saying, which has turned out as the most annoying encounter you can find on mod installation tutorials yet. It won't be impossible, because iv'e seen an automatic-mod installation prototype for BeamNG.drive.

I was given a .zip folder to download as a livery modification for one of the default planes on FSX: Steam Edition, and wouldn't you know it--It showed up as a .can folder instead? And what's worse is that it automatically directed the folder into the "My Pictures" section! Not once have I ever seen that in a tutorial video, how is that supposed to happen?

Despite me following through entire tutorial videos for adding mods to games, everything will look entirely normal until at some point one of the files/directories won't be the same as theirs in the video. I'm sorry, but I just don't understand how people don't have these issues with modding--My PC was bought non-used and non-rigged from a reputable computer store, and it was custom-built by the technicians themselves. Since then not once have I ever messed around with directories and whatever else that could cause issues like these.

Thoughts welcome.

Big question is, though, how are people capable of showing their livery mods in multiplayer sessions? It's not like adding a new paint in ED since it's all integrated...Iv'e seen custom liveries in FSX multiplayer before, and what's even more questionable is that sometimes I see people's aircraft labeled as, say "Airbus A321 Paint1", "Airbus A321 Paint2", "Airbus A321 Paint3", ect. The vast majority of pilots are seen with them, and this likely indicates there's some hidden option that allows you to change the livery due to the list-like numbers.

 

[Minonian]

No idea never played with FSX but usually a skin is not so hard to download from one machine to another.