Windows installer including the Ultima VI mod (and other mods)?

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Exult is a project to recreate Ultima 7 for modern operating systems, using the game's original plot, data, and graphics files.

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Windows installer including the Ultima VI mod (and other mods)? #474

Closed DominusExult closed 2 months ago

DominusExult commented 3 months ago

It might be beneficial to include the Ultima VI mod and other mods (though Glimmerscape is currently the only one of those not deprecated), the same way we include our mods: You select them, they get downloaded and installed along with Exult.

@agentorangeguy if this were acceptable for you, I would like to include the Ultima VI mod. However there are two things to discuss on this:

currently your download has the problem with the cfg file (not correct location in the zip
no unified download as it changes with each release My proposal is that you either fix the cfg problem (and maybe the unified download link) on your side or we add a fixed download to our download page (currently we have a direct backup copy).

wench commented 3 months ago

I have concerns about including third party mods that we are not responsible for, But I guess we already do give a lot of support for the U6 mod and if we include it, it will install without issues so it might not make much difference. We really could do with some way to indicate who the source of the mod is, and we didn't create it. I have seen some amount of confusion around the place with people thinking that we made it.

DominusExult commented 3 months ago

I will see what to label these to make it clear in the install tree view. For now I think "third party mods". Let me write the iss file to show how it will look.

At least for the U6 mod it will be a good thing as people are getting confused how to install it :)

DominusExult commented 2 months ago

@wench The installer would look like this (also added sizes of these and the other other downloads). Anything you would like to be changed?

wench commented 2 months ago

Seems about all that can be expected. I don't think anything needs to be changed.

i30817 commented 2 months ago

Android should have something similar, imo. In Ubuntu, the ppa installs the latest in repository mods on installs and upgrades.

For more general linux distro availability the packagers would have to get a clue that there are 3 mods available just from the exult source, and that they can be installed in read only locations, just like the static data if the install process asks for it (but without having to ask).

DominusExult commented 2 months ago

The Android port has this on its ToDo list, and for other systems, I recommend a new issue and possibly a pull request