As I have been adding content to the CivGold, the loading times were starting to get pretty long. I looked and discovered that I had nearly 650 MB worth of LeaderHeads (so far). Well, I decided to make an FPK.
I read the tutorial, I followed the instructions, I got a 0 byte file.
Okay, so I figured I did something wrong, so I re-read the tutorial, every post in the thread this time and see where I went wrong.
So I go at it again.
Rinse, repeat... 587 MB file that the game cannot read....
Okay, I try it in different folders, still nothing.
So I re-read the tutorial again. I do it step by step by the process. Again I get a 0 byte file.....
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to get it to do the thing it is supposed to do. I do it the same way EVERY time and get a different result every time... one time 121 MB, the next 288, the next 1.2 GB, and so on.
Long story short, on the 19th attempt of doing it precisely the same way, it creates a file that the game can read AND works... however, now the game cannot find the icons for the leaderheads even though they are in the FPK and the directory structure was preserved *head desk*
So I call my friend Pete in San Diego who is a more experienced modder and he says "Oh... well, I'll say this much: PakBuild has personality, the kind that is usually followed by disorder."
It seems that he has had quite a lot of experience with PakBuild, very little of it good. So his solution is to just put up with the long load time.
His final advice: "Make a sammich or something, it's just a game...."
I read the tutorial, I followed the instructions, I got a 0 byte file.
Okay, so I figured I did something wrong, so I re-read the tutorial, every post in the thread this time and see where I went wrong.
So I go at it again.
Rinse, repeat... 587 MB file that the game cannot read....
Okay, I try it in different folders, still nothing.
So I re-read the tutorial again. I do it step by step by the process. Again I get a 0 byte file.....
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to get it to do the thing it is supposed to do. I do it the same way EVERY time and get a different result every time... one time 121 MB, the next 288, the next 1.2 GB, and so on.
Long story short, on the 19th attempt of doing it precisely the same way, it creates a file that the game can read AND works... however, now the game cannot find the icons for the leaderheads even though they are in the FPK and the directory structure was preserved *head desk*
So I call my friend Pete in San Diego who is a more experienced modder and he says "Oh... well, I'll say this much: PakBuild has personality, the kind that is usually followed by disorder."
It seems that he has had quite a lot of experience with PakBuild, very little of it good. So his solution is to just put up with the long load time.
His final advice: "Make a sammich or something, it's just a game...."