Confused Newby re Mods

Originally Posted by Kiwi Commandant

I have just bought and started playing SH3. When I download some mods, there is a zip file which seems to be called "..." and another called "Data". The instructions say "unzip the rar to your SH3 folder". Should I unzip both these files or just the one called "..."?

Thanks

If you use WinRAR and select 'extract' it'll extract everything as just the folder 'Data' and everything inside. Most people use JSGME to enable the different mods, as it is easy and reasonably foolproof, and makes backups instead of just overwriting the files.

If you use JSGME to enable your mods, what you would do is run JSGME once, which creates a folder in your SHIII directory called MODS. Create a folder in MODS for your extracted mod (name it whatever you want, so that you'll easily remember what the mod does) then copy the data folder into the new mod one.

For instance, say the mod you've extracted is for the merchant vunerability. What you should see, once you are done, is something like this (depending on where you put your SHIII files): C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\MODS\Merchant Vulnerability Mod\Data

In this case I named the folder "Merchant Vulnerability Mod" to make it easy for me to remember what it is. :p

Your other option is to copy the entire contents of the extracted data folder and paste it into: C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\data, selecting the 'yes to all' box when prompted. BE WARNED!! Make sure you first backup the data folder before doing that, because (unlike using JSGMW to install the mod) it is an irreversible step!