Scippy, you bad, terrible man!
I understand that you put alot of effort in making some unique servers, and it's gratifying to have a good turnout...but to sabotage the "FromSC" batch file so that OP won't load after it's run, that's almost, well, Romulan.
Ummm..... I blame the wife!
The server itself is good stuff, last time I was on it took 3 CTDs after forgeting to turn scroll-lock off to get me to take a break...what's that model you're using for the SparrowHawk, is that a FASA Rom?
Heh Heh. I've done that myself, especially when playing late at night. Forget to turn off scroll lock, CTD. Restart OP and log on. Start mission, realize I *still* haven't turned off scroll lock, CTD. Rinse and repeat.
The starhawk model is a real SFB model of the starhawk. I pulled it from Ghost's Fleetdock 13. Most of the others I got from either there, or from Desty Nova's site.
Fleetdock:
http://www.strategyplanet.com/sfc/omega/fleetdock13/Desty Nova:
http://members.aol.com/destynova02/myhomepage/index.htmlNote that the splash page on Desty's site shows what a real G1 should look like, but I thought they looked more flashy with the egines they have from Fleetdock. (For my own game, however, I did replace the resized FF's I used in the installer for the Hydran PF's with the boxier truee PF's of Desty Nova.)
There are other servers besides SC2, and people should be able to move freely between them.
Seriously though, I was going to be flip-flopping between SC and the Forge server, but after I run that batch file, I will have StarfleetOP in the windows task manager processes, but the application itself never loads...running ToSC.bat fixes that, and I'm sure I can just manually move around shiplists and such, but I'm concerned that something other than missions, models, and lists is getting altered. Any ideas 
?
That was my intent with the installer/uninstaller scripts. You *Should* be able to change back and forth at will. I'm at a bit of a loss to understand why your application would run on the task manager but not appear.
The installer does the following:
1) Checks to see if you have a SC_SAFElist. If you do, then SC is already installed and the bat file terminates.
2) Backs up the shiplist, ftrlist, strings, and model.siz file to files with the prefix SC_SAFE. Example, shiplist.txt becomes SC_SAFElist.txt
3) Installs the new shiplist, ftrlist, strings, and model.siz file
4) Copies the non-stock missions scripts to your scripts folder
5) Creates the SqdnCmmd folder in your main OP folder and fills it with the PF models.
The uninstaller does the following:
1) Checks to see if you have an SC_SAFElist. If you do not, then SC is not installed and the bat file terminates.
2) Erases the shiplist, ftrlist, strings.txt, and model.siz files
3) Converts the SAFE versions of these back to their original name
That's it. The new models and scripts remain on your hard drive. (The models are easily removed by deleting the SqdCmmd folder, and you probably already had the missions anyway, so they should take up no additional space.)
If some of that screws up on your machine, then you might not be able to log onto a server. But none of it should affect the ability of the game itself to start. The thing to make absolutely sure of is that the FromSC and ToSC files are located in your SqdMaker folder, which is in your main OP folder. If you tried to put shortcuts onto your desktop and actually put copies on your desktop, then the directory paths will not be correct and the files will not work. (Which still *should* not cause the problem you are describing..... )
The bat files are just text files with the bat extension. If you want, you can right click on them and choose "edit" to see their contents. You will see a series of DOS commands you can follow along with and check their logic.
Any of you other techies got any ideas what could be going on here?
-S'Cipio
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