14.02.2008, 09:53
Yes I agree, I know it looks like these reticle folders are getting out of hand. Consolidation will be done when it's ready to move out of WIP and into the finished mods section. Right now it's still a work in progress. And the process is working. The K14 sight, the P-51s and Ki-61s and other corrections have all come from you guys. I hope we get a few more like the CorsairMk series and maybe the P-39s and some more Japanese reticles. I haven't extracted the reticles myself, I've only worked with the ones floating around here. I'm also missing some of the file names, some are different than the ones in the plane_ru.properties file. Any help here would be appreciated.
The new wrapper system is simple once you understand two things. First is it will not overwrite a file that it has already loaded. The second thing is it loads the Mods folders in alphabetical order.
Whichever Mods folder's files are loaded first are the ones used and the rest are ignored.
So if folder "A" contains 3do/cockpit/P-51B/reticle1.tga and folder "B" contains 3do/cockpit/P-51B/reticle1.tga then folder A's P-51B reticle is used and foler B's is ignored.
The beauty of this system is it allows quick and easy testing and changing mods. The down side is one mod can easily prevent another or parts of another from being used. Most conflicts I've had have come from old mods still loading from my old Files folder. After I renamed the Files folder to zzFiles they loaded last and eliminated a lot of conflicts.
The new wrapper system is simple once you understand two things. First is it will not overwrite a file that it has already loaded. The second thing is it loads the Mods folders in alphabetical order.
Whichever Mods folder's files are loaded first are the ones used and the rest are ignored.
So if folder "A" contains 3do/cockpit/P-51B/reticle1.tga and folder "B" contains 3do/cockpit/P-51B/reticle1.tga then folder A's P-51B reticle is used and foler B's is ignored.
The beauty of this system is it allows quick and easy testing and changing mods. The down side is one mod can easily prevent another or parts of another from being used. Most conflicts I've had have come from old mods still loading from my old Files folder. After I renamed the Files folder to zzFiles they loaded last and eliminated a lot of conflicts.