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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0005762 | The Dark Mod | Design/Coding | public | 24.09.2021 18:24 | 17.12.2021 19:08 |
Reporter | MirceaKitsune | Assigned To | stgatilov | ||
Priority | low | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
Product Version | SVN | ||||
Summary | 0005762: pk4dir support | ||||
Description | It would be easier for creators if the engine could support pk4dir directories, the way other Quake engines do for their own pk version. Just as you can place a zip file ending in .pk4 for the engine to read its data, you should be able to place a directory ending in .pk4dir for its contents to be loaded the exact same way. This helps developers working on data mods, for instance by not having to zip their changes from a Git repository for each test. In fact this is also the only way to allow data to be ran and updated directly from a cloned Github / Gitlab repo. I know you can already have the data you work with unpacked in your test FM (eg: darkmod/fms/myfm/def/myent.def) but in this case the mod is mixed with the FM used to test it and has to be manually separated: For any generic mod (content not meant to be map specific) you'd want it to work as either darkmod/mymod.pk4dir/def/myent.def or darkmod/fms/myfm/mymod.pk4dir/def/myent.def depending on case. | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
I think the first step would be to ask @greebo or @orbweaver if and how this is supported in DarkRadiant. But in principle, it sounds as easy as finding all directories ending with ".pk4dir" and adding them to search paths. |
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See the linked DarkRadiant entry 0002971. I'm confident that the editor will be able to support this without many changes if any at all. | |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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24.09.2021 18:24 | MirceaKitsune | New Issue | |
17.12.2021 15:28 | stgatilov | Assigned To | => stgatilov |
17.12.2021 15:28 | stgatilov | Status | new => assigned |
17.12.2021 15:30 | stgatilov | Note Added: 0014594 | |
17.12.2021 19:07 | greebo | Relationship added | related to 0002971 |
17.12.2021 19:08 | greebo | Note Added: 0014596 |