M8, there's really nothing to it.
1) download JSGME
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=3951
2) Install JSGME in you Silent Hunter IV main folder
My install is:
D:\Games\Silent Hunter IV\
(Do not install in the Data folder but directly in the main folder (being Silent Hunter IV\).
3) Run JSGME
once and it should create a MOD's folder
Should look like so (D:\Games\Silent Hunter IV\...)
\Data
\MOD's
\RegistrationReminder
\Resources
\Support
Then a bunch of files with the JSGME.exe application
Extra Note:
(After you've done that re-open JSGME and in the middle you'll see 'Tasks' click it and you see a window opening with:
_Load Mod profile
_Save Mod profile
______________
_Import Mod
_Find Mod
______________
_Refresh List
______________
_Generate snapshot of game files
_Compare gamefiles to snapshot
__________________________
Export activated Mod list to>
Press Generate snapshot of game files, this will creat a copy of all the files in the game so when you deside you've had enough of the Mod soup and want to change layouts you can, after you've uninstalled all the Mod's, have JSGME compair the game files to the snapshot.
4) Download the Mod you want Let's say you want TriggerMaru Overhaul 2.5, save it in a location of your choice and extract it there (extract cause its a ziped file).
My way is:
E:\Games Patches, addon's and Mod's\Silenthunter 4\Mod's\ TMO 2.5 <- in this folder I have multiple folders.
\TMO 2.5 zip file\here you can find the ziped file (TiggerMaru_Overhaul_2.5.7zip)
\TMO 2.5 extracted\ here you can find the extracted version
\TMO 2.5 Readme's\ here are the documentations and readme's
_ Once unziped, copy the unziped folder to the extracted folder and open it, 9 out of 10 times you'll have a readme file or documentation folder in it, cut and past that in to the TMO 2.5 readme's folder.
There should only ever be a 'data' folder in the Mod you want to install, it should look like this:
TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2.5\Data
5) Now for the "hard part" copy and past the TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2.5 folder in the MOD's folder you created with JSGME in the main game folder (see point 3).
6) Open JSGME and there you'll see the Mod you placed in the MOD's folder.
7) Select the mod you want to install and press the > button and the installation will start and move it to the right side window.
If by any chance you don't like the Mod simply select the Mod in the right side window and press < button, it'll move it to the left window.
Let's say you want 3 Mod's TMO 2.5, TMO 2.5 Small Patch and TMO smoke Mod.
Do steps 4 through 6 for all these mod's, when you done that do step 7, open JSGME and they will be in the left side window.
install them in this order and it will work.
1 TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2.5
2 TMO_Small_patch
3 TMO Smoke Mod
When you've installed the second Mod the first will be greyed out don't worry thats normal, installing the thired might grey out the second don't worry either. (if it's not greyed out the mod didn't change anything in the Mod you installed before this one).
Sometimes, you'll get a pop-up saying the mod you want to install is overrighting files already installed... Here's where you need to know if its ok to continue or not.
How do you do that.... simple... read the README.
If you want to install other Mod's on top of the ones you've already installed you should alway's read the README's for compatibility issues and other stuff.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE!!!
Always uninstall Mod's one by one and in ascending order:
Uninstall = 3, 2, 1
As alway's if you run into problems you can alway's ask here, people will try and help you.
HJ