This is somewhat of a stopgap solution to the issue of the game failing to launch when gameDir is set to a directory without the necessary assets. USC is shipped with the assets needed to at least run, so it can handle this scenario by copying them over to gameDir when it is detected to be empty. For my nix package I wrapped the executable with a bash script that does this at runtime, but it makes sense to me for the game to do this.
A more elegant solution would be to separate the specification of asset paths (for example, implementing -skinsdir, -fontsdir, -songsdir, etc), as well as allowing these options to contain multiple paths to be searched, akin to the colon-separated list of directories in $PATH. In this scenario, the game could always search the executable path for necessary assets, while still allowing the user to specify additional ones.
This is somewhat of a stopgap solution to the issue of the game failing to launch when
gameDiris set to a directory without the necessary assets. USC is shipped with the assets needed to at least run, so it can handle this scenario by copying them over togameDirwhen it is detected to be empty. For my nix package I wrapped the executable with a bash script that does this at runtime, but it makes sense to me for the game to do this.A more elegant solution would be to separate the specification of asset paths (for example, implementing
-skinsdir,-fontsdir,-songsdir, etc), as well as allowing these options to contain multiple paths to be searched, akin to the colon-separated list of directories in$PATH. In this scenario, the game could always search the executable path for necessary assets, while still allowing the user to specify additional ones.Fixes #645