I'll try to answer these.Edit: Looks like .exe beat me too it lol
1) You need to have something to open the torrent file I believe. I always use
Utorrent, which can be downloaded
here.
2) All of the trees that had that texture formerly would be retextured, yes. My suggestion to you if you don't want this to happen is to go into the Feralheart fold on your C drive or whereever its saved, making a copy of bot the material and image of the texture and saving it as a separate one with a different name.
3) Before you start thinking you can make a game like FH, keep in mind that there is a LOT of work ahead of you. If you really want to start somewhere, I would suggest opening an IT server (Impressive Title Server). Impressive title was the game before feralheart that included much more detail in game mechanics, but not as good graphics. You can retrieve the source for a basic IT server
here on the KITO website.
A little advice, If you want to make the game just to have a few friends on then don't bother. You won't be motivated enough to finish it. You'd be in charge of:
- Fixing bugs, dealing with complaints, hackers and all that stuff.
- Designing game models, (You can't just snatch some off the internet unless there free)
- Knowing the game code inside and out. (A lot of it you have to do with wordpad and if you don't learn, there is no way you'll get it to work.)
- Making maps, (Keep in mind you won't have map maker to use.)
- Hosting it 24/7
There is much more as well. If you are really motivated to make a server, then i say go for it!
Just know there is a lot of work involved. (This is coming from a dork who tried but could never get his server to work.)
If you are talking about making a game from scratch, then good luck... All I can say about that.