How do you stay organised when it comes to downloading mods?

[GlaydrChyle]

( Sorry if this is in the wrong place again.. I was debating on whether to put it in Game help or Game discussion)

I've attempted ( Round about four times now) To download meshes for maps I want to create. The downloading is fine and the installing of the mesh it'self is okay. I understand the entire ordeal with the "Create new Mesh" thing where you have to often save them as your own before you can come to use them for your actual map making. It's just that, thousands of times now I've had to re-install feral heart and it's all because I am disorganised!

I always seem to place some kind of file into a crazy and wacky place. Wacky enough, it stops the game from working all together.        well, well then Mr Chyle!

Whether it's just me and my terribly all over the place' brain I dunno' But I seriously can't seem to organise things what so ever in game!

So I've simply resorted to creating separate files on my pc hard drive to keep all the meshes and files for them in. I think I have about six now? all for sky, textures, terrains, yadayadayada terrible organisation if I'm honest xD

So here's a discussion for you all:
                                                          How do you all stay organised when it comes to downloading things and having to extract items and place them into the game?

Sorry again if this also seems a bit funny or doesn' make sense, I'm tired

[Preach]

I tend to put it in a separate folder - or the least I can do, is just download it there and leave it there when needed. I don't necessarily need mods but I do just download that comes to mihd. I am Picky after all.

But yeah, I put it in a separate folder.

[hugrf2]

When it comes to object groups and stoof, I just take some stuff from old object groups and stuff them all together into one to make space. I make sure the object group isn't too big, though, of course, but yeah. ^^'

...Otherwise, I'm not even sure if I stay organised very well at all other than that. lol. I guess I don't really need to? Maybe I'm not sure of the question, either.

[GlaydrChyle]

...Otherwise, I'm not even sure if I stay organised very well at all other than that. lol. I guess I don't really need to? Maybe I'm not sure of the question, either.

I suppose it really just comes down to how you make your maps if you do. Or otherwise how you get everything organised when you try to add new items into your game. Or even explain how you do things like download mods, to other people.

I always have some kind of brain-mush moment where I all of a sudden I forget everything I learned in game. So when I try to tell people how to do something I always end up saying " Do the thingy.. by presing a button and it does stuff" Or something like that.

So I understand what you mean and I can completely relate.

[WolfQueen]

When I download a mod, I usually keep a copy of the files in my downloads folder. It's pretty much my backup folder. :p

I have a backup folder for vanilla FH files in my main game folder, but I only started to use it.

[PrettyReckless]

Simple. I don't. xD
Seeing as I keep track of what I am adding to the game, I download the old files and change it back to what it was.
If I mess things up bigtime, I have my preferred mods and textures in my download folder/on Mediafire. c:

[Scornhound]

I'm not really organized. When it comes to putting in objects, I just take that chance and stuff them all in my_objects folder. But what I do do is that I'll keep the zip/rar folder up so I know the name of the objects in case they do not come with any .object file. Well, I'm also so not organized that I also stuff the .object files into my_objects folder too and they still work. What I really have trouble on is having to find exports of objects that are in my exports folder after exporting a map. ^^; Yeah.

[Hooli]

I usually just drag all of the .zip files onto my desktop and write the .mesh files down in wordpad or on a piece of paper before loading up the meshes in game. When it comes to losing files, I'm not the best at recovering them easily.. I tend to just run around the forums until I come across everything again, which will take only a few minutes sometimes, while other times it could take hours.

[ZombieKitteh]

I'm not terribly organised on this matter exactly; but I'm not sure if anyone knows or has done this before, but you can have multiple FH game clients. I have three.

One specifically for me map making.

One for just normal FH and me getting/using others maps.

And the last is for me creating mods or for anything I need a 'clean slate' game for.

It doesn't exactly help with this exact situation, but further down the line it could be something to think about. c: Just add numbers to the ends of the folder names and desktop icons to remember

[G4RG0YLE]

Well, I don't even think of organisation. c8 I rarely download stuff- only MMs, claws, items, and that's about it tbh, also make sure I want to download it all before I do it. I'm a very decisive person, and I never go without actually checking E V E R Y T H I N G more than 4 times.