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Submitted by kathycf on Wed, 2012-05-30 18:39

KillerGremal wrote:

]Hm, un-tanking/re-tanking? - I hope you didn't mean this literally!?
Resp. did you use this simple batch tool? - It seems to work better than originally thought...

Also I hope the installation matters are gone meanwhile!?


Yes, thanks, the base Dungeon Siege 2 game is up and running fine although I had to install it on another computer and copy over the terrain file. I had no problems whatsoever installing and running Broken World, though, so yay. Laughing out loud

I did mean tanking/untanking literally. Is that a bad thing? :nervous: I've already started 3 games and have been playing problem free thus far. Kingdom of Ehb, Yesterhaven and Legends of Aranna. No Utraean Peninsula as I am already playing a campaign of that in Dungeon Siege 1.

I've not gotten as far as I would like with any of the games due to having been sick with some nasty stomach thing.

I followed Iryan's instructions here for the Legends of Aranna stuff:

iryan wrote:
Instructions for converting Legends of Aranna resources to DS2 format;
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/Converting_Legends_of_Aranna_Resources.pdf

I also read your blog entry regarding updating the files via hex editor and/or tanking...

KillerGremal wrote:
Of course it's also possible to un-tank the DS1 tank and to re-tank it again for DS2. This probably takes more time but makes sense if you have to update the DS1 content first to work in DS2.
In this context please note, if you untank+retank the Objects.dsres from DS1 it's necessary to delete the files inside art/animations/skrits before retanking (since the new tank will perform as mod usually overwriting DS2 files with the same name).

I was intimidated by the long list of files and so on, but after downloading everything I felt more confident. The process really didn't seem very difficult to me; was *not* very time consuming at all and of course, I deleted the skrits as you mentioned.
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