Re: [Vegastrike-devel] missunderstanding modding......

[Daniel A. <dan...@us...>]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 01:27, Stephane Vaxelaire wrote:
> > I added the 'modpath' variable in the config file to 'mods'....put my
> > mod in the mods folder in the data dir....ran vegastrike from the data
> > dir.....     ./vegastrike -mblack-paralysis explore_universe.mission
> > 
> > but VS refuses to load anything from the mod directory!!!!  it looks in
> > the mod folder in ~/.vegastrike/mods/black-paralysis only...not in
> > ~/devel/cvs/vegastrike/data/mods/black-paralysis   :-(((
> 
> First the mods variable in not yet used (defaults to "mods" anyway) because
> VS should load the mod config file if it exists then VS should know the
> modpath before reading config... or I could simply try to read the default
> VS config file, and then delete the VegaConfig * to recreate one if one
> was found in the mod...

hmm...I see your point...well, as long as the modpath variable is read
from one config file, just tell me which one to make good (when it is
eventually read) :-)

> But I have a question, do you have your mod only in the datadir and not in
> homedir/.vegastrike/mods ?

I created the directory homedir/.vegastrike/mods ..... do I have to have
anything in it?  hmm...I probably should have put in a config file...:-/

> > Also, it appears to look in the data dir before either of the mod
> > locations (from output below)!!!
> 
> No, it will just look in the home directory before looking for mods and then
> in mods dirs and then in datadir.
> I may change that soon.
> 
okay...maybe not having the config file in the homedir mod path stuffed
this up then...

> > also, the default mission for VS is still
> > mission/exploration/explore_universe.mission......but it should now be
> > exploration/explore_universe.mission ?!?!
> 
> If this is the default mission in the old dataset, yes it should be like you are
> saying. In data 0.4 it is ok.
> Will we still use the old dataset ? If yes, I wasn't aware of that and yes it
> may be hard to get CVS running with it now.

I don't think the old data will be kept on....I just haven't got the new
stuff yet :-)


	Dan.a


> Stephane
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