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macoati · 10-05-2002, 03:35 PM

I did, Willow. Since I use my laptop when I am on the road (supposed to travel roughly 1/2 my time but the last month and a half were strange - been home almost the entire time) I installed WW on my laptop two weeks or so ago. Downloaded vdub AFTER I attempted to run a party through Valeia - the left-hand gate was dead plus a few of the buildings (like the town hall). I then did the vdub fix on the townmask files (I saved the originals for some reason in a new location). Then when you posted your question (I was actually on the road and didn't have my login info for the forum) I extracted the hub files as well. So, at that point I had all six extracted and I had saved the original hub files with the original mask files. When you suggested doing vdub on just the hub files I quickly replaced all of the extracted files with the original files and extracted the hub files again (leaving the original mask files in the townavi folder). This left me with original mask files and extracted hub files. With only the hub files extracted the gate and the buildings were still dead.

So, to summarize:
1) I have had mask files extracted with original hub files - gates & buildings work.
2) I have had both mask and hub files extracted - gates & buildings work - no apparent game-play issues (only in Valeia - no saves elsewhere)
3) I have had hub files extracted with original mask files - gates & buildings are dead.
4) My laptop has W2k on it...home comp has XP.

There really aren't any other combinations unless you want me to check each mask file one by one...I'd have to pull some saves from my other comp to do it but I'm fairly sure it would be a waste of time.

[ 10-05-2002, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: macoati ]

10-05-2002, 03:35 PM	#14
macoati Manshoon Join Date: February 27, 2002 Location: WY Age: 57 Posts: 184	I did, Willow. Since I use my laptop when I am on the road (supposed to travel roughly 1/2 my time but the last month and a half were strange - been home almost the entire time) I installed WW on my laptop two weeks or so ago. Downloaded vdub AFTER I attempted to run a party through Valeia - the left-hand gate was dead plus a few of the buildings (like the town hall). I then did the vdub fix on the townmask files (I saved the originals for some reason in a new location). Then when you posted your question (I was actually on the road and didn't have my login info for the forum) I extracted the hub files as well. So, at that point I had all six extracted and I had saved the original hub files with the original mask files. When you suggested doing vdub on just the hub files I quickly replaced all of the extracted files with the original files and extracted the hub files again (leaving the original mask files in the townavi folder). This left me with original mask files and extracted hub files. With only the hub files extracted the gate and the buildings were still dead. So, to summarize: 1) I have had mask files extracted with original hub files - gates & buildings work. 2) I have had both mask and hub files extracted - gates & buildings work - no apparent game-play issues (only in Valeia - no saves elsewhere) 3) I have had hub files extracted with original mask files - gates & buildings are dead. 4) My laptop has W2k on it...home comp has XP. There really aren't any other combinations unless you want me to check each mask file one by one...I'd have to pull some saves from my other comp to do it but I'm fairly sure it would be a waste of time. [ 10-05-2002, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: macoati ] __________________ Macoati