Expansions Manager

The Expansions Manager was devised by Cim for Oolite v.1.82, and ushered in the move from OXPs to OXZs.

Downloading an Unzipped Expansion

Go to the Expansion Pack Manager in Game.

Select List OXPS.

It will now show you the list of OXPs you have installed as OXZ files.

Highlight the one you want to fiddle with and press X.

Oolite will then extract the OZX to a folder in AddOns.

The folder will end .off

Change this to .oxp.

Oolite will now ingorne the original version and will run with the OXP version in Add Ons and any changes you make to it.

If you make a mess of it, deleting the .oxp version will cause Oolite to go back to using the OXZ version.

To edit I'd recommend Edit Pad Lite 8. It's free, won't mess up the file format and is colour coded so will highlight code typos.

EG. If you have missed a , or a " in a text string it will show as white rather than yellow, so you can quickly see the mistake. ;-)

Been a bit of a blessing when I've been C&Ping long lists of procedurally generated text from my latested log to my array file.

Cyan: Installed; updated pack available for download.
Orange: Ready to download, but Oolite will also download extra packs to make it work.
Brown: Conflicts with an already installed pack.
Gray: Incompatible with this version of Oolite.