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Troubleshooting / Re: Installed UFO Redux and now have no music

« on: May 24, 2015, 04:59:58 pm »

Just tried using that version of the nightly, but I still have no music. If I really have to play without music, I guess I will. Or I could try one of those sound mods and see if that makes a difference.

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Troubleshooting / Installed UFO Redux and now have no music

« on: May 23, 2015, 07:35:41 pm »

So I installed Openxcom nightly on Windows 7 and then installed UFO Redux but when I ran the game again I had no music. Sound effects still work perfectly fine and disabling UFO Redux brought back music. I did some Googling but couldn't find any results. Any suggestions?

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Troubleshooting / Re: I cannot figure out how to install mods

« on: May 18, 2015, 03:25:24 am »

Okay, finally got everything working! Compiled the nightly and was able to install UFO Redux. Thanks for the help guys!

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Troubleshooting / Re: I cannot figure out how to install mods

« on: May 17, 2015, 05:22:38 am »

yeah, if you have a data folder after installation, you're installing 1.0, not the recent nightly.  Check out this post for how to install mods: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3617.msg44187.html#msg44187

On linux, your user folder will be $HOME/.local/share/openxcom.  Check out https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom#linux for details.

According to my package manager it is version 1.0.2, so not the nightly.

The presence of a /data folder may mean that the aren't using a recent nightly.   

Kommando did you install version 1.0 (from June of 2014) or a more recent (After May 7, 2015) nightly build? 

The structure for the mods has recently changed to help support upcoming Terror from the Deep, so that may be where some of the confusion is coming from.

No mods folder in $HOME/.local/share/openxcom. I'll grab the latest nightly and start compiling it. If I have any issues I'll post them here. Thanks for the help so far.

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Troubleshooting / I cannot figure out how to install mods

« on: May 17, 2015, 04:07:59 am »

Hey all,

New to Xcom. I saw someone play it on YouTube and thought it looked interesting so I gave it a try. So I've gotten the game to work just fine, but I've been trying to install the UFO Redux mod (that's what the person on YouTube was playing and said it was highly recommended as it fixes a lot of the original games bugs) but, for the life of me, I just can't figure it out. All the guides I have found say to put the extracted files folder into the OpenXcom mod directory. The problem is that there is no mod directory (I am using Ubuntu 15.04, so it's /usr/share/openxcom/). The only thing in the openxcom folder is data/. I've tried making a mods directory both in openxcom/ and data/ and I've also just tried copying the mod folder directly into both and it never shows up in the mods screen in-game. Since I'm on Ubuntu I installed the game using the PPA so it's the 1.0.2 release if I remember correctly. I've really enjoyed the game thus far even if it is brutally difficult at times (so far my soldiers have a habit of being sniped from unexplored areas and dying in one shot. I've probably lost a dozen that way). Any and all help is appreciated.