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Community Mods Testing
File:Titans-icon.png Community Mods Testing
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Locate your PA directory and PA installation directory
Locate your PA Directory
Make a backup of your entire PA directory.
Locate the stable directory in your PA installation. The PA installation directory will be different if installed using steam.
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Create a copy of your PA installation
Make a copy of your PA installation directory. eg on your desktop
This copy will be updated and launched manually.
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Update the build in your copy of PA
Replace the FMOD files with: https://palobby.com/fmodex64-4.44.60.zip
On Windows replace the PA.exe and server.exe executables in bin_x64 with copies from the PA Test zip (see link in title of testing room).
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Update the user interface in your copy of PA
Merge replace media/ui in your PA app directory with https://github.com/mikeyh/pa-ui/tree/community-mods
Fonts and videos are not in github so if you replace media/ui you will need to at least add back the fonts to /media/ui/main/shared/font/
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Update the server script in your copy of PA
Replace media/server_script in your PA app directory with https://github.com/mikeyh/pa-server-script/tree/custom-commanders
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Create empty client_mods and server_mods directories
For faster startup... rename your client_mods directory to client_mods-PAMM and server_mods directory to server_mods-PAMM in your PA directory.
The client_mods directory may be named just mods on older installs.
File system mods are only used during mod development.
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Launching the test build
The test build is launched manually using the first PA.exe in your copy (not the PA.exe inside bin_x64on windows).
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Switching between the test and stable build
To switch back to the stable build rename client_mods-PAMM back to client_mods and server_mods-PAMM back to server_mods in your PA directory.
File:Gold-rank-icon.png Many mods may not work at this time
Any mods using mixed case will fail to load.
A fix will be in the PTE.