Combining TDM Modpack and Imagemod mod

[Rex_the_Hex]

Combining TDM-Modpack and Imagemodmod...

I am trying to figure out how to do this. It appears that the imagemod consists of 4 downloads, combat, components, facilities and planets. I am trying to figure out how this all works. Looking at the one for facilites, I see many facil_xxx.bmp files. Then looking at my install of SEIV I can see a bunch of facil_xxx.bmp in there, so I assume I just add the new facil_xxx.bmp files to there. Hopefully the other three files have bmps files in them as well that I can figure out where to add them. It also appears that there are just one set of images for these, that are not effected my the mod you are playing.

Now, I would assume we need to let the game know about these new bmp files we have. I think that is where imagemodmod comes in. imagemodmod has a data folder and inside of that folder are a bunch of text files. I also see two data folders in my SEIV install. One is under the Space Empire IV Gold directory and the other is under the TDM-ModPack directory. All three of these data folders seem to contain the same .txt files. Well, files with the same names, but I am sure the contents of the files differ between the three folders. I checked the ones called facility.txt and they seem to be the same except for the Pic Num, which is encouraging.

So, what do I do with the .txt files in the imagemodmod data directory to get the new images in my TDM-MODPack mod, without otherwise changing the TDM-Modpack mod? I bet I need to replace/edit some of the .txt files in the data folder of the TDM-ModPack directory.

Wheh, did that make any sense? Is there an automated way to do this or no?

Thanks.