[freespace2], directory structure, .mve movie player

[Taylor Richards]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:51, Net Beast wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Could anyone send me a listing of their directory structure for freespace2 
> in Linux?  I currently run it off of my mounted WinXP drive with the Babylon 
> 5 Mod installed and the compiled freespace2 executable copied to it.  I 
> would like to run it from my home directory in Linux.

The directories are case sensitive like Data/, Data/Missions, etc.  You
can get the full list if you grab the CVS and check out
src/cfile/cfile.cpp starting around line 228 or just look here:

http://cvs.icculus.org/horde/chora/co.php/src/cfile/cfile.cpp?rt=freespace2&r=1.9

The VP files are searched through alphabetically going down the above
directory structure in order.  You could just make a directory for the
linux version and put links to the VPs if what you want is to keep the
versions separate.  Any pilots and other game created files will go in
~/.freespace2.  No directories are required in the binary/game directory
except for the movies and everything else is automatically created by
the game in your home directory.  My file listing is at the end of this
e-mail and the B5 mod is installed under ~/.freespace2 on my system.

> Here is what my directories look like now.  When I'm in XP I use fsopen, 
> that's why you'll see the executable for it below.  Please let me know 
> what's needed and what's not.  Thanks.

I'm not sure if those mve's are supposed to be links or what but they
are certainly not the real movies at 100 bytes.  Movies should go in
Data/Movies if you want them to play.  I'm not sure why you have the
4dos.com executable in there since I'm pretty sure it has never been
used by the game.  patch32.dll shouldn't be needed anymore either and
some of the other (ie. *.url) stuff you could do without if you wanted.

> P.S. - are there any movie players let that will play the .mve files.  It 
> seems that MVEExtractor is no longer available for download.

Edit the Makefile and set MVE to "true" and the video will work kinda
slowly depending on your system and there is no audio.  An updated movie
player is in the works but I haven't had time to finish the audio which
is pretty much all that's left.


Taylor


[tazman at dragon freespace2]$ pwd
/usr/local/games/freespace2
[tazman at dragon freespace2]$ l -R
.:
total 1.3G
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4.0K Feb 16 12:58 Data/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          15M Mar 12 12:52 freespace2*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          972 Jul 13  2002 fs2*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.0K Feb 23 16:49 icon.png
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6.1M Nov 17  1999 root_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         117M Sep 15  1999 smarty_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         248M Sep 15  1999 sparky_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         253M Sep 15  1999 sparky_hi_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         165M Sep 15  1999 stu_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         187M Sep 15  1999 tango1_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          69M Sep 15  1999 tango2_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          48M Sep 15  1999 tango3_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          24M Jun 29  2002 tangoA_fs2.vp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         113M Sep 15  1999 warble_fs2.vp
 
./Data:
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4.0K Feb 15 16:23 Movies/
 
./Data/Movies:
total 694M
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          34M Jul 14  2002 bastion.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          79M Jul 14  2002 colossus.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          79M Jul 14  2002 endpart1.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          42M Jul 14  2002 endprt2a.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          42M Jul 14  2002 endprt2b.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         196M Jul 14  2002 intro.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          59M Jul 14  2002 mono1.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          53M Jul 14  2002 mono2.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          51M Jul 14  2002 mono3.mve
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          57M Jul 14  2002 mono4.mve


-- 
Taylor Richards <mtrs at bellsouth.net>