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D2X-XL requires organizing the Descent 2 data in various subfolders. Using these folders is mandatory.
D2X-XL will create all of these folders itself if necessary. Some of these folders may also be created when downloading and installing additional content for D2X-XL.
Main Descent Folders
- MS Windows: Arbitrary (e.g. c:\games\d2x-xl)
- Linux: /usr/local/games/d2x-xl, /var/cache/d2x.xl, $HOME/d2x-xl
- Mac OS X: /Applications/Games/D2X-XL, ~/Library/Caches/D2X-XL (important: Subfolders begin with a capital letter here)
Types And Storage Of Descent Data
D2X-XL distinguishes between static, variable and private game data.
Static game data data resides in the application folder on all OS's. Static game data comprises the basic game data files (*.hog, *.pig, etc), textures, sounds, models, missions, movies and mods.
Variable game data comprises all data D2X-XL computes from static game data. These can be downscaled textures and binary model files, both from the regular game data and from mods,
lightmaps, light data, meshes, missions states and downloaded files. D2X-XL will store such data in the variable cache folder. The variable data is stored by default in subfolders of
- Windows: subfolder 'cache' of the game folder
- OS X: ~/Library/Caches/D2X-XL
- Linux: /var/cache/d2x-xl
Private game data comprises game settings (*.ini), player profiles, screenshots, savegames, demos and on Linux and OS X also wallpapers. The private data is stored by default in subfolders of
- Windows: game folder
- OS X: ~/Library/Caches/D2X-XL
- Linux: /var/cache/d2x-xl
You can tell D2X-XL to use user specific static, variable and private game data folders:
- -datadir <static data folder>
- -userdir <private data folder>
- -cachedir <variable data folder>
On Linux, you will need to manually create /var/cache/d2x-xl and set its access rights to 0757 (sudo chmod 0757 /var/cache/d2x-xl); Otherwise, d2x-xl will not be able to write into it.
Alternatively, you can put all users who are allowed to play d2x-xl on your system in a group (e.g. "games"), make games own /var/cache/d2x-xl and sudo chmod 0774 /var/cache/d2x-xl.
The most important data folders are:
- config: Put all config files here (*.cfg, *.ini)
- data: Put all game data here (*.pig, descent.hog & .msn, descent2.hog & .mn2, *.256, etc.).
- demos: Demo files will be saved in this folder (*.dem)
- missions: Put all mission data here (*.hog, *.msn, *.mn2)
- missions/single: Special folder where D2X-XL will look for missions if you chose "play singleplayer mission" in its main menu
- textures/D2: Place all Descent 2 hires textures here (*.tga)
- textures/D1: Place all Descent 1 hires textures here (*.tga)
- textures/wallpapers: Place custom wallpapers (menu background images) here (MS Windows).
- $HOME/d2x-xl/wallpapers: Place custom wallpapers (menu background images) here (Linux).
- ~/Library/Caches/D2X-XL/Wallpapers: Place custom wallpapers (menu background images) here (Linux).
- sounds/D2: Place all Descent 2 hires sounds here (*.wav)
- sounds/D1: Place all Descent 1 hires sounds here (*.wav)
- models: Put all hires model data here (*.oof, *.tga)
- movies: Put all movie files here (*.mvl)
- profiles: Put all player profiles here (*.plr)
- savegames: Put all save games here (*.sg?)
- screenshots: screenshots will be saved here if this folder is present (*.tga)
Hints
On Linux, all Descent file names should be lowercase. You can rename all files in a folder to lowercase using the
command "for file in *; do mv $file $(echo $file | tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]]); done".
The mission folder can have subdirectories as well. You can place all pure singleplayer missions in 'files/missions/single';
if you select 'Play Single Player Mission' in D2X-XL's main menu, it will only display those missions in the mission
selection dialog.
Folders And Files
Here is a list of the Descent 1 and 2 files and the folders they should reside in. If you don't have some of the files,
just ignore them. Files not listed here can be safely omitted.
Descent 2 |
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| d2x-xl.exe |
sdl.dll |
sdl_image.dll |
sdl_mixer.dll |
| sdl_net.dll |
ogg.dll |
vorbis.dll |
vorbisfile.dll |
| smpeg.dll |
libpng14-1.dll |
zlib1.dll |
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Config |
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| d2x.ini |
descent.cfg |
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Data |
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| alien1.pig |
alien2.pig |
descent.pig |
fire.pig |
| groupa.pig |
ice.pig |
water.pig |
d2x-xl.hog |
| descent.hog |
descent2.hog |
descent2.ham |
hoard.ham |
| descent2.s22 |
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| banlist.txt |
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Movies |
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| d2x-h.mvl |
d2x-l.mvl |
intro-h.mvl |
intro-l.mvl |
| other-h.mvl |
other-l.mvl |
robots-h.mvl |
robots-l.mvl |
Profiles |
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| default.plr |
default.plx |
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Savegames |
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| default.sg0 |
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