help with mods

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Sounds like you found the downloads, and are almost there.

As stated below, you need the Full install, rather than the patch.
For the planetpack, as it sounds like you want, you should dump the entire contents of the planetpack into your c:\MM\se4\pictures\planets\ folder.
This will overwrite your planets.bmp, and add almost a thousand portraits.

It works similarily for components, facilities and combat.

And don't do what I did. I was having a major brain fart, and was putting all of the pictures into my components folder, instead of splitting them up accordingly. I was doing this for about 2-3 weeks when I realized what I was doing. I still don't know if I got all of the appropriate pictures in their correct folders. I don't feel like going through all of my downloaded files, as they're so many of them, and most of them are labeled with those numbers that are generated instead of a proper name, and I'd have to go through them again to find out what is in each file. So just be careful in that regard.