Where i must place .hpi ?

SCHIZO · Post by **SCHIZO** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:54 am

Game have very stupid manual. Nowhere don't sayed where i must place *.hpi and other recourse files in linux.

It is not so obvious as you think.

I have all CDs but hpiview install /path/to/blablabla don't works.

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hpiview install /media/TACD1
please mount/insert your TA cdrom now (TA CD 1)Installation failed:
    Unable to find TA's cd path!!

please use this syntax:
    hpiview install path_to_TA_cd

CD mounted... WTF?

Post by **zuzuf** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:34 pm

hm, which version of TA3D do you use ?

which package do you use ? (source, binary 32, binary 64)

I think none of released packages contains the installer fix/improvement that makes it retry to find the CD during 5 sec, if it's not mounted when it's looking for it this will fail.

This is how to do:
1) mount the CD
2) start ./hpiview install /media/cdrom (replace /media/cdrom with the path where your CD is mounted)
3) follow instructions (just change CD as asked on screen)

if it still fails, you can install resources manually. Just copy totala2.hpi from the first CD, and extract totala1.hpi from totala3.hpi. you can do that with any HPI viewer or with hpiview:
copy totala3.hpi in TA3D's dir and type:
./hpiview extract install\\totala1.hpi

Game have very stupid manual.

if you want you can help us improving it. Since we are mostly developers and testers are involved in the project for quite some time now we don't see how difficult it can be for new users

SCHIZO · Post by **SCHIZO** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:13 pm

May be i stupid? But what is ta3d dir?

/usr/share/games/ta3d ? or may be $HOME/ta3d/ or may be /usr/games/ta3d?

Info:

openSUSE Linux 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP x86_64

Name : ta3d
Arch : x86_64
Version: 0.4.2
Release: 0.pm.1
Size : 9.3 M

Installed from repo via YaST, not sources

This is how to do:
1) mount the CD
2) start ./hpiview i....

See 1st message. It's don't work.

Post by **zuzuf** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:42 pm

ha, ok I see

SuSE packages try to install ta3d the way you would do with other softwares ... but 0.4.2 is clearly not ready for that so they use a hack : they create a ta3d directory in your $HOME folder with lots of links to the original files/dirs in /usr/...

so you should run commands from $HOME/ta3d/

I tested those packages on OpenSUSE 11 but I got an error with Allegro ... it wasn't built with the exact same version that I had installed (same version number but they removed/changed a symbol

so it didn't want to work).

We didn't create SuSE packages here, so I cannot provide more help on them, but we know better how our home made packages work

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:18 pm

It will be easier in the next stable release (0.5.1 the current 0.5.0 is the devel version). There will have a dedicated resource folder like other unix apps.
From the roadmap, a deb/rpm package will be provided.

SCHIZO · Post by **SCHIZO** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:59 pm

don't work

How to install wanted files manually?

Post by **zuzuf** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:06 pm

don't work

can you be more precise ?

does it print an error message ? what happens ? does the program crash, complains about something missing ?

Balthazar · Post by **Balthazar** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:57 pm

don't work

How to install wanted files manually?

Copy totala1.hpi and totala2.hpi in $HOME/ta3d/

That`s should be enought to run the game

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:31 pm

I can confirm.
I have only totala1.hpi and totala2.hpi in my folder and it works well (but the campaigns will be missing)

Post by **zuzuf** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:46 am

campaigns are in totala4.hpi (CD2), but totala1.hpi cannot be copied easily from all CDs of TA. On my CD I have to extract it from totala3.hpi ...

Where i must place .hpi ?

Where i must place .hpi ?

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