Comments - PiCroft

If you want to run this with the GOG version, the instructions aren't actually enough as the configs in the latest GOG version are different and don't match up to the settings. These instructions assume that your Blood installation comes from GogGalaxy and is fully functional (i.e you have working movies).

First, copy the contents of the mod into the root of your Blood install directory.

Next, you need to make a bunch of changes to a bunch of files. They aren't too hard to do, but it does require chopping and changing a bunch of different files so it might be an idea to backup each file I tell you about as you reach it just in case. Also, what you see in your files might not match exactly what I see, so no guarantees. First, find and open your dosboxBlood.conf.

Copy everything in this file. Now open dosboxBloodDW.conf.

Look at the bottom of this file and you should see something like:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

@ECHO OFF
etc etc...

Select everything above these lines and paste in what you copied from your dosboxBlood.conf. This should make sure that your (working) Blood dosbox settings are applied to DW.

Next, open dosboxBlood_single.conf

I don't know what yours says, but mine says:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

@ECHO OFF
mount C ".."
imgmount D "..\game.ins" -t iso
c:
cls
blood.exe
exit

What you now need to do is replace the bottom part of dosboxBloodDW.conf (everything from [autoexec] and below that you DIDN'T copy over before) with whatever is in dosboxBlood_single.conf, WITH ONE EXCEPTION:

In dosboxBloodDW.conf, you should see the line:

BLOOD.EXE -ini dw.ini

When you copy over stuff from your default Blood file, you MUST make sure that this line still retains the "-ini dw.ini".

You can now close these files.

Next, you need to find a file called "DW GOG". It's actually the shortcut used to launch the mod. I suggest you open Notepad or other text editor as it will make modifying the next bit easier.

Right click it->properties and look at the "Start in" and "Target".

Now find the "Launch One Unit Whole Blood" shortcut. Again, right-click->properties.

Copy onto separate lines the contents of "Target" and "Start in" from both shortcuts so you can compare them. You'll notice they have slight differences. You need to modify the DW shortcut so it matches as closely as possible the original One Unit Whole Blood shortcut, but preserving the switches that feed it the DW config.

In my case, I needed to modify the DW shortcut "Target" field to:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GalaxyClient\Games\Blood\DOSBOX\DOSBox.exe" -conf "..\dosboxBloodDW.conf" -noconsole -c exit

and the "Target" field to:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GalaxyClient\Games\Blood\DOSBOX"

Obviously you should substitute your directory into those paths.

Finally, you need to get the movies and music to work.

Open your dw.ini. Look for the line that says SourceDir= and make sure it says:

SourceDir=D:

and then make sure that all the cutscene and music paths have NOTHING except the name of the file you want, like so:

[Episode1]
CutSceneA=dw1a.smk
CutWavA=dw1a.wav
CutSceneB=dw1b.smk
CutWavB=dw1b.wav

This should finally be enough to both get the mod running and have movies work. Hope this helps!