[Ruatha]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Wow... love that feature list... just beautiful. .

Other suggestions? OK, you asked for it, but remember I did say they probably belong in an other program:

-Scan through All race AI files automatically and either flag up or fix all those missing lines that generate annoying error Messages in-game. I imagine this would be a pain to implement in a program that supports several Versions of SE4.

-Option to scan pictures/races and subfolders and delete any superfluous copies of the styletester program: It's easy to end up with many redundant copies of this eating up your HD space. Some ppl might want a copy in each and every race folder, so there should be an option to copy it in, too.

-Option to create empty race folders in mod directory - ie I have a shipset in pictures/races/vikings but in order to use the shipset in adamant mod I need an empty adamant/pictures/races/vikings folder.


-scan all the general.txt AI files and look for missing dsgnname files, then copy them to mod subfolders where appropriate, and create a list of files that need to be found and downloaded.

-Race-style browser. (including an option to spit out a list of which installed mods and races are fully or partially neo-standard compliant or neo++ compliant, perhaps with some kind of races/mod compatibility table spit out at the bottom, so you can see which shipsets will look best under which mods.)

-(Not sure if this is possible) Option to look at your PBW games (either from the website or the saegame files) and determine what race styles you need to download. This ties in quite nicely with the following sugestion:

-(This one is really way out, and would probably require some kind of server somewhere, I think) Option to somehow scan the readme.txt, credits.txt and modlancher files of races and mods to determine what Version is currently installed. Then it either connects to a central server (and/or the SotAS site) or it searches for a URL in the local readme files and tries to determine whether a more up to date Version is available, then downloads, unzips and installs it.

If I think of any more i'll let you know.

-Some kind of support for the modinfo files for Maryx's modlauncher.
This is already included, it reads in the name and Version right now and uses everywhere. the rest info along with a button to the website from the modinfo.txt and the e-mail to the author of the mod can be reached through a click.

Ruatha I owe you many many pints
Let's save that until you've tried it....


-(Not sure if this is possible) Option to look at your PBW games (either from the website or the saegame files) and determine what race styles you need to download.
I'll try to prepare for this by scanning the registred shipsets that player has choosen when uploading their shipsets, not sure if this will be included in 0.8 as that is almost finished, but perhaps for 0.9.


As to the others...
When the companion is done, I'll try to make a "Fixit all" proggie, will make a button for it in the companion so that when it's done you can press that button in the companion to check all files and make shipset empty dirs in all mods.
It won't include everyting of the above but I think I can do most!
Thanks for the suggestions

[ July 24, 2004, 08:15: Message edited by: Ruatha ]