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Elbagast / TF2_Mod_Conflicts

Program to detect and analyse conflicts between TF2 mods
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Comparisions against in-game files #3

Open Elbagast opened 10 years ago

Elbagast commented 10 years ago

Consider adding checks against the game's files to provide information about which mod files are overriding existing game files, and which are adding new ones.

This would require setting up a way of scanning the game vpk files, but those are huge so more intelligent file scanning would be in order. This means figuring out how to detect and store stats about files and scan again only if they've changed since the last scan.

Elbagast commented 10 years ago

This might be worth putting of for now.

e.g. if you wanted a lot of small tools to share the game settings/information it would be better to figure out how to separate that from the program and call it when needed. This program would do:

"is this file in the game?" -> true/false

Another tool (e.g. a material maker that wants an existing texture) might ask:

"what files of this type are in the game and where are they?" -> list of files "what is the data for this file?" -> the file's actual data

So I guess I need to bear in mind what sorts of things tools will want to know and share.