I may look silly here, but I post this for those who might make my mistake.
I was extracting VP into my fresh IL-2 folder. That did not work. When I made a vp folder, extracted vp-modpack into that, and then copied pasted il-2 fresh into the VP folder, it runs. Which is just as in the video ? Now when I did that, a box came up warning that there where a number of files with the same name. Did I want to replace them? Had no idea. But chose NO as I thought that the files already in the folder would be the VP ones. Perhaps that was wrong?
What is weird is that when I extracted the patch, the patch ended up in its own folder called vp_modpack_patch, and skins vp_modpack_paintSchemes.
Extraction procedure was right click on the zipped patch file
Extract file to
the vp-modpack folder.
Did that, but, do not think it worked.
In the overall folder, there are a number of fb_3do08.SFS(example) and maps fb_maps06.SFS
It is almost like the files did not know where to go? Extracting the patch should have caused it to overwrite/patch things not make a folder? Skins should have installed in skins etc? I used 7-zip.
Wonder if it is my system?