Ping: Dutch - Your Multiplayer Batch Files

[CraigSca]

Dutch,

These are your instructions for FOF2004:
This is how 3ric did it. I do it almost the exact same, and you can sort of make up yours from these instructions.

1. Go to your universe directory (i.e. H:\Games\FOF2004\universe)
2. Create a folder called "CFL" and a folder called "NFL" (the "CFL" folder will be your MP folder for the CFL and the "NFL" folder will be your single player folder with the NFL team names and cities.
3. Now copy the current "frfoot.fcy" and "frfoot.fni" files from your "UNIVERSE" folder into your "CFL" folder.
4. The tricky part now is getting the old files from your original cities and nicknames list. These should have been backed up. If you did that, copy those to your "NFL" directory. If you didn't, you will need to recreate them within the game (or have somebody send them to you). Anyway, once the game looks like the NFL cities and nicknames are right, copy those two files ("frfoot.fcy" and "frfoot.fni") into the "NFL" directory.
5. Next on the list is getting your logos in the right folders. Put the "CFL" logos (the *.bmp files 1-33) that mckerney and the gang put together and put them in your "CFL" directory.
6. Put your "NFL" logos (*.bmp files 1-33) into your "NFL" directory.

Now that you have done that, you have all the files in the right spot. Next up is making a batch file that will move the files around everytime you load the game. It's not hard, just cut and paste. So let's move on.

7. Right-click on your desktop and select "New-->Text Document".
8. When that opens up you want to copy 3ric's code from above verbatim into the text document.

Quote:

copy universe\cfl\frfoot.fni universe\
copy universe\cfl\frfoot.fcy universe\
copy universe\cfl\*.bmp pictures\
start frfoot2004.exe

9. Click the "Save as" for this file and name it "CFL.bat" (you may need to change the "Save as type" to "Any file" and leave encoding as default. Then you want to copy this file into your directory that frfoot.exe file is (your FOF2004 home directory)

10. Repeat steps 7-9 but exchange CFL with NFL and use the following 3ric *.bat code.

Quote:

copy universe\nfl\frfoot.fni universe\
copy universe\nfl\frfoot.fcy universe\
copy universe\nfl\*.bmp pictures\
start frfoot2004.exe

Now, when you run the "CFL.bat" file, it copies all the files associate with the CFL into FOF2004 and starts the game. You are now in MP heaven. And when you run the "NFL.bat" file, it copies all the files associated with the NFL into your FOF2004 and starts the game. Now you are in Single Player heaven.

That's all, looks like a lot, but it's simple, and now you know what a batch file is and does.

I was in the midst of implementing them for 2007, and I noticed there is no frfoot.fcy file in 2007, however there is an frfoot.fgr. Do I copy the .fgr file instead of the .fcy file?

Have these instructions been tested for 2007?

[Dutch]

The *.fcy and *.fni files are in the universe folder. I have already set up the batch files according to these instructions for a number of MP and SP leagues. (Although the fcy and fni files currently in the MP leagues are all generic.) They seem to work just fine. What I do not know yet is whether there are other files neccessary now or if those are still the only two that are required.