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LogicAndTrick / sledge

An open source alternative to Valve's Hammer Editor for the Goldsource engine. (No longer in development)
https://logicandtrick.github.io/sledge/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Will Sledge ever be portable? #219

Open Pyroglyph opened 9 years ago

Pyroglyph commented 9 years ago

I know that Sledge is being developed and important features are yet to be implemented (such as Source support) but do you plan to make a portable version (as in one that doesn't make registry entries and also doesn't require admin privileges to install/run) because I would very much like to run it at my college to make a Garry's Mod map (the campus would make a fantastic map) and since Steam won't run there I have no other option really (although I am looking into Jackhammer and Source SDK).

tl;dr - Will Sledge ever have a portable version that doesn't need admin privileges to run?

LogicAndTrick commented 9 years ago

This is a good idea, a proper portable version should be possible, at least for the Goldsource engine. (Source needs the SDK to be installed for a lot of stuff, which makes portable versions kinda useless)

Can you use the zip release from the releases page? The installer needs admin access to register file associations and so on, but I don't think the editor does if you just extract the files from the zip. It's not exactly portable because it uses the AppData directory, but it should run. I might be wrong though because I haven't tested that in a long time...

You'd have to re-setup the game configuration on every PC you use, or copy the %AppData%/Sledge directory and make sure the game files (FGDs, Wads, etc) are always on the same drive path.