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Okay, for the love of all that is holy, please, please, PLEASE use unique naming conventions for your VXP shortnames. For example, if your name is 'Bill' and you make an expansion of an actor named 'Phil', do NOT JUST NAME THE SHORTNAME 'PHIL.VXP'. That is an extremely commonplace name, and as of right now, there's no way for VXPs to distinguish from each other. So if some other person comes along and makes a VXP called Phil.vxp, THE ENTIRE FUCKING UNIVERSE WILL IMPLODE AND RAPE YOU UNTIL YOU DIE. When you name an expansion, you have to remember to name it something that no one else using V3DMM will ever think to name it. Instead of naming your VXP 'Phil.vxp', try 'bill_phil.vxp' or 'bl_phil.vxp' or something that no one else is likely to inadvertently replicate. This is especially important with all the people making VXPs out of existing Quake 2 models and such, for which I assume that there is a limited amount of. If we get a billion people replicating the same models and giving them the same filenames and then actually using them, we are so screwed. Please, please, please give your files unique-looking filenames.

WHAT IF HE'S TICKLISH

At last, an important call to action that I didn't have to make. This is basically the last serious concern with v3dmm, so pay attention.

And nobody make jack.vxp. It's taken. ;_;

This really, really annoys me. It shouldn't be an issue.

Ummm, I'm going to look stupid now...

Can nobody use the names

blood1
blood2
...and so down to like 9

Sorry. I'm stupid.

NO ONE USE DAN.VXP

so basically ur name then the expansion name would be the best thing to do?

ex: Thol_****.VXP?

Yeah, that would be a good idea. Something like that.

or, gigmshGuydottydotdot.vxp?

I would be even more specific with filenames, to be honest. Your name or initials, the movie name or initials, and the prop name. Maybe even with a few random numbers in there.

I always used pb-name.vxp

Should i add more to it?

It should probably be enough, I'm just extra-cautious.

Bump- How do you rename vxp's then- Like say I wanted to release something but it has a lame name?

Assuming it hasn't been used in a movie before and no one else has a copy of it, you'd have to delete the expansion from your V3DMM expansions directory and rename the .3cn, .3th, .cfg, and .vxp to the new filename.

Cool thanks.

Okay, so heres the story;

I had these expansions, blood1 through to blood14. I've renamed them all (cfg's and everything) as james_humphreys_blood1 and so on.

However, the origionals (blood1) have been used in films by me, StabbyJoe and possibly Adam Bibilo, so am I right in assuming I will have to alert these two not to download then new versions and avi release any films that contain the origionals, or totally remove and replace the blood expansions into their movies?

Are the movies that use those expansions movies that have already been released? If you guys were careful, you could remove the expansions from the movies and delete them, but all of you would have to do it. If the movies in question have been released, however, it's probably too late and I wouldn't bother.

Now I have 7gen, I shortname all my expanstions vgg_name_vgg. is that ok?

Yes, that's good.

acoolguynamedFman.vxp?

stickying this, because this still comes up a lot. also - does anyone know if there's a way to change a mod's shortname without just entirely recompiling it? looking through old threads, the answer seems to be "no," but I wanted to double check...

I thought there was, actually. Can't for the life of me remember what it is but I'm convinced someone posted about it once.

I do not believe so.

Yeah, I should add that I know absolutely nothing about it and am purely going off some fuzzy memory with absolutely no concrete evidence at all.