file type csh

vmxa1 · June 6, 2002, 12:38

Help, I have some files that are ships that I found on the web at some point and I am not sure what they are for. They have a file type csh. Anyone know what the deal is with them? I stuck them in a folder for Moo2, so I guess that is the game they are associated with.

moomin · June 6, 2002, 13:17

Are you shure those aren't c-shell files?

Open one of them in a text editor and see if it begins with a line like

#!/bin/csh

vmxa1 · June 6, 2002, 14:44

Nah, shells are for unix types. This is some ships file for Moo2 that I am not sure what you do with it. It has names like avenger, defiant, antarian. Looked at them with a hex editor and it is jibberish except for the name.

moomin · June 6, 2002, 15:44

Well, it was worth a try, wasn't it.

Don't have a clue. Did you download these with an editor?

Spaced Cowboy · June 6, 2002, 16:01

If they are ship files, can you rename them to the standard ship extension and then try to open them in the program?

vmxa1 · June 6, 2002, 16:37

I can try, what is the std name? I was hoping someone would be able to say, oh yeah I have that and it is blah blah blah. I wonder if it belongs in one of the lbx file, but I do not know how to get it imbeded. Thanks.

Spaced Cowboy · June 7, 2002, 09:12

Sorry Vmxa1, most of the time I'm posting from work. Don't have my games here as my boss probably won't like it if I played games all day long.

bbess1 · June 7, 2002, 21:49

You've definitely got a ship file. Go to Jeffery Tobin's ZOETROPE
site and hunt around, I'm sure you'll find out anything you need Moo2 related. All the old SFF.net threads are stored there. A wealth of info from the early gaming gods of moo2. Huge amounts of info!!! Have fun here's the link http://www.sff.net/people/zoetrope/

vmxa1 · June 7, 2002, 22:42

Thanks. I went there and followed the links to some good sites. They had the ships, so that is what they are, but still do not know what I am to do with them. Do I copy them into some folder to see what they do or do you need a tool to incorporate them into the game. I did find a few game scenarios that were created, so I am going to try them out.

vmxa1 · July 1, 2002, 20:02

Ok, I got it now. Using Corion2, you can load the defiant.csh in as either a replacement for an eisting ship in the game or as a new ship design. You can use the editor to change any ship and save it as a csh file to load later. I just wanted to see what the ships I found looked like.