Well, what I was up to, was preparing the 9 custom mansions for all our MMF-members and -guests, where not-standard music, screens, graphics, sprites and/or sounds are involved. So far, only 2 got "done". See upper left corner of our homepage.

As I tried to explain in a previous post, there is a major difference between:
1° sprites, sounds & graphics;
and:
2° screens & music.

When items from point 1 are involved, you really need to wait. As soon as I receive the updates of those mansions of the designers, they will get released.

When only music and/or screens are involved (and you can't wait  ) you need to create a folder with exactly the same name of the mansion + Data. In your example: Church Data. In that folder you put all screens and music files. You place that folder besides the mansionfile in the Custom Mansions folder. And when you start playing Church, the game automatically finds the needed files in the Church Data folder!

The reason that the other 7 mansions are coming a little bit later is because of other issues. E.g. sam skelton is right now busy with the fixings in Church.

ryos wrote on 06.01.2008 at 10:02:48:

Guilty as charged! 

aquaMat wrote on 24.01.2008 at 20:52:34:


I've been playing Dominator since the betas without manual swapping, via Decorum. Decorum's been available for quite some time (almost a year, right?), and is so much nicer than swapping by hand that I'm frankly a little bemused when people who don't use it complain about what a pain it is to swap files by hand.

I'm just saying.

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While I agree that it would be nice if designers did this, I also recognize that there's nothing stopping anyone from doing it themselves. It really isn't that hard...just a copy/paste job with a resource editor, right?

However, it's worth noting that Dominator will never be swapping-free, due to the fact that MM does not load custom sounds and (if Vern is to be believed) never will.

EDIT: I decided Joeb probably wouldn't mind if I posted Dominator (and Chase the Bots) here, wrapped in Decorum. So, here you go. Have fun.

Interesting. Out of curiosity, what sorts of issues did you encounter getting DoD ported over?

I'm also interested to know what factors kept you from "coming to grips", as you put it, with Decorum. Not that I'm likely to improve it (as you correctly note, it's pretty much unnecessary as of MM 1.0.8), but I like to hear constructive criticism on my work in the hope that things I do in the future turn out better.

As for my "just do it yourself" quip...I think I have to apologize. It's my kneejerk reaction to complaining on Internet message boards--there's so many people pining for others to do things for them that they could do for themselves that I tend to get a little grumpy about it. I do agree that it would be nice if developers adapted their mansions, and didn't realize the greater issues facing such efforts, but I'm also the type to try and fix things that annoy me before asking someone else to do it for me.

So, I'm sorry I said anything.

Oh, and sorry also for not giving credit for "Chase the Bots". I'd forgotten it was you who made that. I'll say it a third time - a "converted" version of Dominator is impossible due to the custom sounds. It remains the only graphic set for which something like Decorum is absolutely necessary if you want to avoid swapping by hand.