apocalyptech / eschalon_utils

Eschalon Books I, II, and III Character and Map Editors
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Utilities to "diff" and "patch" maps #9

Open apocalyptech opened 10 years ago

apocalyptech commented 10 years ago

It might be useful to have a pair of utilities similar to diff+patch, which are aware of the map format.

Specifically, this is something which would be useful if somebody modifies one of the base maps in the game, and then later BW releases a patch which fixes some bugs on the same map. With these utils, you'd be able to "diff" your mod versus the old stock map, and then re-apply your patch to the new version, thus making it pretty likely that you'd pick up on the bugfixes (though of course you'd want to check by hand, in case some of the changes overlap.

Anyway, might be useful to have.