Drizzle:Setting Up

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Part II, where we do something besides download and install!

Okay. Now that you've downloaded everything and have Netbean installed, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

First things first: You need to move your MOUL files to a place you can get to them easily, and make some folders.

For those of you that don't know, your MOUL folders are located on your hard drive, normally in this spot:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\GameTap\games\140000150\data

Now you'll see 3 folders there: avi, dat, and sfx. I would highly recommend that you select all the files in the sfx folder, copy them, and then paste all of them in your Uru sfx folder. Else you won't have many sounds in the MOUL Ages.

Next, go to the dat folder, and copy all the files that are there.

Now go to your hard drive and create a folder called something that you'll know. I made one called "MOUL Files", how original of me, huh?

After you've done that, I recommend you make an empty folder for where you are going to have the converted files end up. Mine is:

C:\MOUL Converted\output

Again, not very original, but serves our purposes. NOTE: as you can see I have another folder inside the MOUL Converted one that says: output.

Okay, now that you've taken care of that, let's launch Netbean!

Using Netbean

Once your run Netbean, which seems to take a few seconds to get loaded, you should have a screen that looks like this:

NOTE: Your screen may not look EXACTLY like mine here, as I already have something loaded. Don't worry, just keep following my steps here.

Now DON'T PANIC!! I know, I know...I about had a heart attack too! But if goofy old me could figure this out, then I'm sure any of you can.....besides...I've had some excellent tutoring on what scripting and program looks like by guys like D'Lanor, Trylon, Boblishman, and Nadnerb..........Who are all over at the Writers Guild, where you can get all the tools and learn how to create Ages! <-------Shameless Plug

Okay, first things first. Go up to the top of the screen to Files and click on it. You should get a drop box that looks like this:

Click on where it says "Open Project" Take it to where you put those Drizzle files. You want to click on the FOLDER that says: DrizzlePrp. Click on that folder ONLY ONCE to highlight it, then click on the Open button.

Okay, now you should see this:

Up there to the top and left, click on the + symbol next to where it says DrizzlePrp.

Now you're screen will look like this:

Now click on the + symbol where it says Source Packages. Now your screen will say:

Now click on the + symbol where it says gui. Your screen should change to this:

Almost there! Now DOUBLE click on the file that says GUI.java! Your screen will go to this:

yay! Get ready to do some editing......

Editing some Java

Okay, now we're going to edit some Java. I don't know one darn thing about Java, but I recognize scripting when I see it, be it Python, HTML, or Java.

In the screen before, you had something appear when you double clicked on the GUI.java file. If you look closely, it looks a lot like a window with buttons in it! You might even recognize some of the if you do any Age Creation! But this is not where we want to be. Instead, move your mouse up and click on where it says "Source". Look at my pic below to help you find it:

The yellow arrow points to where you need to click. When you do, you'll notice that the window changes to a bunch of text.

Now, you need to scroll down on that text, until you find what looks like folder locations: IE: D:/Program Files/ubi soft, etc, etc, something like that. It should be near the top of this file.

When you get there, it should look something like this:

BUT NOT EXACTLY like that. I've already changed the script in mine.

As you can see you have words in green that say: pots, moul, out. you need to change what each of those equal to, meaning you need to change the file locations. pots needs to point to where your Uru:cc is installed. moul needs to point to where your MOUL files that you copied are, out is that empty folder we made, remember? This is where it's going to dump those files when it converts them.

Now, I know, you see something like that where it is all grey. Notice however that infront of all that you see // // means to "comment out" something. So you can leave that stuff alone.

Now that you've done that, go up to File and click on it. In the drop box, click on where it says: "save file"

Okay, you've now modified Drizzle to work on your computer.

Now we need to run Drizzle to convert your Ages!! DON'T exit Netbean yet.

Running Drizzle...(finally!)

Okay, now we run Drizzle. But we use Netbean to run Drizzle.

Go to the top of the screen in Netbean and find the word Run up in the menu. click on it. A drop down box will appear. At the top of it, should be Run Main Project, click on that......or you can just hit F6!

Give it a few seconds, and tah dah! You should have a screen that looks like this:

Don't ask me what all those buttons mean! For that, Dustin will have to explain. For now you only need to worry about a couple of things.

Look at the upper right hand part of the screen. You'll see 4 things you can select:

moul pots absolute output

Now, we ain't tryin' to convert our Uru:cc files, and we don't have any output yet. Absolute is not vodka, but shows all the files. Go ahead and click next to MOUL and put the dot there.

Now, click on the down arrow next to the top box. This will list the MOUL files you copied over. You need to pick an Age you want to convert. In the picture below, I've picked Jalak:

Notice how there is more than one PRP file that has the word Jalak in it. This is important. You will have to convert each of these files. For now though, let's just covert Jalak_District_BuiltIn.prp

Once you have selected that file, (or what ever one you picked), find the button that is labled: Recompile Prp. Click on it.

When done, you should see something in the small white window towards the middle:

What you are looking for is the words: Recompilated Completed! This means that the prp file has been sucessfully converted for Uru. Now, you MAY get some errors with certain files and Ages. That's okay as long as when it's done, it ends with Recompilated Completed.

Go back and select each and every Prp file for the Age you want to convert. If you want to convert them all at this time go right ahead. We still have other things to do after this.

Move the Files

Okay, as you most likely saw this coming, we need to now move all the files you converted from your output folder you made, to your Uru dat folder. Once you have done that, you then need to go back to the folder that has the copy of all your MOUL files. Open up the dat folder there again. Each Age will have the following kinds of files:

.age .prp .fni .sum

All we did was covert the prp files. We now need to copy each .age, .fni and .sum file from here to where your dat folder is in your Uru:CC install.

Now that you've done all that, you'd think you'd be done, right? Wrong....there is yet more to do!! Look at the next post: Part III Finishing it up