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Moon_Dew:

--- Quote from: DarkRain on October 05, 2013, 01:35:30 am ---In fact, in order to change a file's extension (in this case pk3 to zip) you need to rename the file -- of course windows systems have the tendency to hide the file extension from you, but usually only for known file types, I don't think that pk3 would be a known file type in most systems (btw not knowing what type of file you are opening is a security risk)

That aside, did you find the campaign.ufo file among the extracted files? And were you able to make the desired modifications?

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I found them, and, using PakScape, I was able to make the modifications...but they didn't work.  The game still worked, but it was still the plain vanilla version instead of the modded version.

DarkRain:
Some things come to mind
1. If you extracted the file check that the it is in the right directory (*.ufo files must be in a directory called 'ufos' within the 'base' directory, see the link above about ufo scripts)
2. if you added the modified file back to the pk3 check that it was added correctly
3. Double check that you modded the right campaign? (If you mod the 'standard' campaign and then chose the very 'easy one' for your game you won't see any difference oc)

Moon_Dew:
I don't even know how to extract it!  WinZip isn't working, WinRar isn't working, 7zip isn't working, PakScape doesn't seem to work, and I can't even rename the file!

DarkRain:
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Sorry, but there's only so much we can do to help you if you don't even know how to rename a file, even if the file extension is for some reason hidden when you try to rename the file, a quick Google search for "show file extension windows <insert version here>" would have given you literally thousands of pages that explain step by step how to disable that "feature", allowing you to change the file's extension while renaming it, so... really?

But since I'm feeling helpful today: here, that's a link to the original campaign.ufo in our repository, get it, make your changes, put it in the directory that I mentioned before (you'll probably have to create the 'ufos' directory, I really hope you can figure how to do that yourself), that should be enough for what you want.

Moon_Dew:
I probably do know how, but just to be sure, you mean making a new folder, right?

EDIT

Okay, I'm getting some bull-crap about permissions and what not.  I don't really know what to do here since I really, really don't like messing with options like that (my computer's buggy enough as is, you know.)  How do I get the permissions I need?

Oh, and guys, thanks for being patient with me so far.

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