Menu organization methods

[fritzfarlig 31]

many bats/lots in the menu can be a huge mess
when they are not numbered correctly
what is the easiest method and tool to change this ?

[Raymond7cn 6,773]

Hi Fritzfarlig, There is a post wrote by @rsc204 Link, I guess it's maybe relevant to your question. I also remembered @CorinaMarie and @Cyclone Boom had made some improvements of DAMN, if you want to use DAMN, I suggest you'd better have a look at those, Sorry couldn't find that links now due to so many links in my favorite.

Best Regards,

-- Raymond

[Cyclone Boom 17,016]

15 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

I also remembered @CorinaMarie and @Cyclone Boom had made some improvements of DAMN, if you want to use DAMN, I suggest you'd better have a look at those

Good to mention that, and I believe it was the topic where Cori made her custom code for the DAMN Manager.

As follows:

Then see this post for the latest version of the script for setting the paths.

I must admit using the DAMN and creating Menu Management Lots (MMLs) isn't something I'm personally experienced with. There is a tutorial on it which Paeng originally wrote, although I've not investigated this myself as of yet. It's something I'd like to do though eventually when building up a properly organized Plugins folder.

Here's the guide:

 

Maybe those who are presently familiar with using the tools might be able to provide additional details, or guidance to any questions you may have.

 

15 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

There is a post wrote by @rsc204 Link, I guess it's maybe relevant to your question.

Well found there too. This does look very useful info indeed as a summary.

[fritzfarlig 31]

thanks for posting I will take a deeper look and maybe have some questions   

[fritzfarlig 31]

DAMN  hmmm yes I know, but I will only change the numbers in a quick proces is there any tools maybe only ilive reader 

[fritzfarlig 31]

I DL your custommenu.dat file but not sure with one I replaced it with in my damn/support folder

[SIM-ple Jack 17,445]

This is what I have going on DAMN. As you can see, the game is not in (x86) Is it supposed to be? That's where GOG put it, not me.

Tutorial videos would really save a lot of question being asked.

 

From another thread-never got an answer.

[CorinaMarie 29,785]

1 hour ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

As you can see, the game is not in (x86) Is it supposed to be? That's where GOG put it, not me.

The original disc based version went in (x86), but where GOG puts it is fine too. If you are using the little patch I wrote for DAMN, it knows 3 or 4 locations to look now rather than it being hard coded for only the very first original game location.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,445]

25 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

The original disc based version went in (x86), but where GOG puts it is fine too. If you are using the little patch I wrote for DAMN, it knows 3 or 4 locations to look now rather than it being hard coded for only the very first original game location.

Okay, what or where is the little patch you wrote for DAMN? Boy, this gets better and better as it goes on, and I still have DAMN-NAM and DAMN Manager to go yet.

[CorinaMarie 29,785]

3 minutes ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

Okay, what or where is the little patch you wrote for DAMN?

 

I believe it can be found here.

On 1/20/2020 at 10:00 AM, Cyclone Boom said:

Then see this post for the latest version of the script for setting the paths.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,445]

I am totally confused now. I don't have an SC4InstallDir.ini . And I did a search. Am I even putting all this junk in the right SC4 folder? Am I supposed to put it all with the doc folder where I have plug-ins?

[CorinaMarie 29,785]

11 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

I don't have an SC4InstallDir.ini .

As I recall, that is an additional option if your SC4 install path is not one of the standard ones. It's used when all else fails. Otherwise, you don't need it.

[fritzfarlig 31]

7 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

As I recall, that is an additional option if your SC4 install path is not one of the standard ones. It's used when all else fails. Otherwise, you don't need it.

looks like I have fixed it now damn working in game 

[c4bl3fl4m3 405]

I forget if I asked this before, but has anyone ever gotten the DAMN to work on a Mac? Because I desperately need to reorganize my Parks & Landmarks & Rewards menus, and it would be superhelpful to reorganize the Other Transit menu too, and there's no iLiveReader for the Mac, so the DAMN would be my only other option... right?