[RFE] Add functionality to store additional custom data in the new user data folder

MegaMek / mekhq

MekHQ is a java helper program for the MegaMek game that allows users to load a list of entities from an XML file, perform repairs and customizations, and then save the new entities to another XML file that can be loaded into MegaMek.

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[RFE] Add functionality to store additional custom data in the new user data folder #3807

Open 9Epsilon9 opened 10 months ago

9Epsilon9 commented 10 months ago

Development release 49.17 introduced the functionality of a basic User File Directory.

This is very helpful but a few key areas were not included. If possible, could this functionality be rolled out to:

Custom unit sprites (currently these have to be stored in the data/images/units/"various folders")
data/images/units/localclient_mechset.txt file (this text file links the custom unit sprites above to chassis and exact models they apply to)
data/images/force directories
data/boards directories

Thom293 commented 5 months ago

Also Campaign Presets, please.

Or basically anything in the userdata folder.

Thank you.

Thom293 commented 5 months ago

Also the new terrainconditionsoddsmanifest.xml located here:

\mekhq-windows-0.49.20-SNAPSHOT\data\terrainconditionsodds

Thank you.

IllianiCBT commented 5 months ago

Also Campaign Presets, please.

We shouldn't save Campaign Presets. Transferring Campaign Presets between versions without resaving can potentially cause issues.

Thom293 commented 4 months ago

Also, adding an ability for the campaigns folder to be added would be super helpful. This is where campaign saves are stored and still has to be manually coped between versions. Thank you.

SJuliez commented 4 months ago

Each of the suggestions is, unfortunately, its own challenge. I rarely work on MHQ so I can't comment much on these.

boards are a problem because they are actually gathered by the server. Not a problem when playing locally but on a remote server the local user dir isn't going to help. I already started on that and the system is rather resistant to change.
Campaign saves/game saves are loaded from a file chooser so there's two ways to go: a) have the file chooser point to the user dir by default and b) loading games/campaigns not from a file chooser but a selector.
Campaing presets: as Illiani commented
xml files: probably possible, given time to work on it. Must choose for each if the user dir file should replace or add to the internal file.

Thom293 commented 4 months ago

Thank you for looking at this!