Post by doo2002 on Feb 5, 2005 12:06:10 GMT -6
i copied this from trucksimfans so the credit goes there
If you want to know how to use others mods, and skins ingame, you need to print this out if possible, understand this fully, and completely, before you attempt to add any outside source material into your game.
-------Outlaw Kustoms File Structure Help-------------------
Now, the first step is to get you the winrar file archiver, if you don't think you'll need it, or you think you don't want it, guess again. It can extract and archive any zip out there, plus any zip as far back as pentium two, and until another comes out, this is all you'll need to handle any zip.
download.com.com/3001-2250-10176481.html
Now, please make sure you print this out for future reference, it will allow you to follow any tutorial that anyone types out with the ol' c:/programs/yadda/yadda/yadda. This will be universal in helping you understand it all, and if it doesn't, I really don't know what to tell you. Let's get going.
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We start at your desktop. Look for a computer shaped icon, named "My Computer" and click on it.
Here we are in your main computer directory, here you can find all drives in your computer, and also, your computer's Document folder, were :AA keeps your editing folder after installing the game, but I'll get to that. click the drive your game is installed on, stock file installation, will be on the c:/ drive, unless you customized the path when you installed the game like me, my game is on my d:/ drive, but it's all the same really.
After you clicked your dive of chice, you'll see an assortment of files, just look for the one that reads programs, and click it.
Now find your games main folder named "18-Wheels of Steel:AA, and click it.
The only folder you need to worry about right now, is the "aa" folder, next I'll show you what to do with the base.scs, if you listen to me earlier, and do now have winrar.
Now find your base.scs, and left click it, if you have installed winrar, it will open it automatically.
Now that we are looking at the base.scs's contents in winrar, look at the top left, and select extract.
Now, after you selected the extract botton, we should all look like this, with the drag-bar and all, this is where you will path the base.scs, to copy it's contents, in your Documents folder.
Select threw the drag-bar accordingly, select computer/my documents/18 wheels of steel:AA, and hit extract. This will give you all the nessessary files you'll need to edit your game, add downloaded materials, so forth.
Now, refer back to the first two steps, and get into your "My Documents" folder.
Now you should be in your "My Documents" folder, now select your games edit folder, as seen above.
Here are the folders you want if you want to edit the game, add downloads, or to just gauck and stare, whatever, here you are.
All the real eye candy will be in here, the "makes" folder, in here is where the game keeps tractors, trailers, and all that come with them.
Choose folder "trailer" or folder "truck" depending on what you are doing.
Select your truck of intrest, once inside a given truck's folder, they are all structured the same.
Choose the "acc" folder, this is where each trucks content is stored, trailers are set up the same way aswell.
This is the main file directory for a truck, you'll see folders such as "interior", "paint", engine", transmission", so on. this is where downloads are to be pointed, as far as trucks, paint jobs, and related material.
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This concludes Outlaw Kustoms File Structure help. Please read carefully, and follow step by step if you want to start easily understand this game, and how to work it.
I can not help conflictions with adding downloads to the game, and something happends like pink paint jobs, not showing up at all, or all that comes with using outside sources to edit your game, that is to be done at your own risk, and please follow all creators instructions for adding downloads, if problums arise, please refer to the creator.
I will post all related links for other tutorials for this game, and please follow all instrutions, I, nor does any editor make a tutorial, much less like this, for people to skim threw it, or skip parts, only to lash out at the editor, expecting someone to hold their hand threw the process, this will get you nothing. They were made for a reason, so please read, and have patience, this is not an over-night process for most, and takes time to learn, and master, so please take your time as well.
Outlaw.
If you want to know how to use others mods, and skins ingame, you need to print this out if possible, understand this fully, and completely, before you attempt to add any outside source material into your game.
-------Outlaw Kustoms File Structure Help-------------------
Now, the first step is to get you the winrar file archiver, if you don't think you'll need it, or you think you don't want it, guess again. It can extract and archive any zip out there, plus any zip as far back as pentium two, and until another comes out, this is all you'll need to handle any zip.
download.com.com/3001-2250-10176481.html
Now, please make sure you print this out for future reference, it will allow you to follow any tutorial that anyone types out with the ol' c:/programs/yadda/yadda/yadda. This will be universal in helping you understand it all, and if it doesn't, I really don't know what to tell you. Let's get going.
-----------------------------------------------------------
We start at your desktop. Look for a computer shaped icon, named "My Computer" and click on it.
Here we are in your main computer directory, here you can find all drives in your computer, and also, your computer's Document folder, were :AA keeps your editing folder after installing the game, but I'll get to that. click the drive your game is installed on, stock file installation, will be on the c:/ drive, unless you customized the path when you installed the game like me, my game is on my d:/ drive, but it's all the same really.
After you clicked your dive of chice, you'll see an assortment of files, just look for the one that reads programs, and click it.
Now find your games main folder named "18-Wheels of Steel:AA, and click it.
The only folder you need to worry about right now, is the "aa" folder, next I'll show you what to do with the base.scs, if you listen to me earlier, and do now have winrar.
Now find your base.scs, and left click it, if you have installed winrar, it will open it automatically.
Now that we are looking at the base.scs's contents in winrar, look at the top left, and select extract.
Now, after you selected the extract botton, we should all look like this, with the drag-bar and all, this is where you will path the base.scs, to copy it's contents, in your Documents folder.
Select threw the drag-bar accordingly, select computer/my documents/18 wheels of steel:AA, and hit extract. This will give you all the nessessary files you'll need to edit your game, add downloaded materials, so forth.
Now, refer back to the first two steps, and get into your "My Documents" folder.
Now you should be in your "My Documents" folder, now select your games edit folder, as seen above.
Here are the folders you want if you want to edit the game, add downloads, or to just gauck and stare, whatever, here you are.
All the real eye candy will be in here, the "makes" folder, in here is where the game keeps tractors, trailers, and all that come with them.
Choose folder "trailer" or folder "truck" depending on what you are doing.
Select your truck of intrest, once inside a given truck's folder, they are all structured the same.
Choose the "acc" folder, this is where each trucks content is stored, trailers are set up the same way aswell.
This is the main file directory for a truck, you'll see folders such as "interior", "paint", engine", transmission", so on. this is where downloads are to be pointed, as far as trucks, paint jobs, and related material.
-----------------------------------------------------------
This concludes Outlaw Kustoms File Structure help. Please read carefully, and follow step by step if you want to start easily understand this game, and how to work it.
I can not help conflictions with adding downloads to the game, and something happends like pink paint jobs, not showing up at all, or all that comes with using outside sources to edit your game, that is to be done at your own risk, and please follow all creators instructions for adding downloads, if problums arise, please refer to the creator.
I will post all related links for other tutorials for this game, and please follow all instrutions, I, nor does any editor make a tutorial, much less like this, for people to skim threw it, or skip parts, only to lash out at the editor, expecting someone to hold their hand threw the process, this will get you nothing. They were made for a reason, so please read, and have patience, this is not an over-night process for most, and takes time to learn, and master, so please take your time as well.
Outlaw.
