Official Launch of the SE4 Companion

Ruatha · #1 September 3rd, 2004, 02:59 AM

What does the dogscoff plug-in pack do?

It can scan your games at PBW and see if you have all the used shiupsets/races installed, if not it will help you to install them.

It can scan your shipsets for missing design.txt files.

It can copy empty shipset folders to your mod directories to give you access to those shipsets in the mods aswell.

It can scan the entiore shipset directory for un-needed files, alert you for thosa and delete them if needed, and
it can scan all race AI files and see if they are compliant with ver 1.91 of SE4 Gold, and if not ait can fix them all if you want it to.

And also is included Andres Shipset viewer, that will show all installed shipsets in beautiful pictures and tell you if they are neo compliant, this plug-in will alert for Active-X, just press "Yes" and you are go.

Fyron · #2 September 3rd, 2004, 03:25 AM

Would it be possible to get the auto-1.91 AI updater as a separate program, that scans zip files instead of the races folder? I would like to get all of the shipsets hosted on SpaceEmpires.net up to par with 1.91, without having to repack everything myself...

Ruatha · #3 September 3rd, 2004, 04:56 AM

Quite possible.
But I'd like people to use the current plug-in first so I'll get to know if it works ok or is buggy.
Right now it sets all missing parameters to either 0 or false, don't know if that's optimal..
I can make a zip AI scanner when I get home from the army in 5 weeks, or you could get the source for the plug-in, but it's in delphi though....

I already know of a semibug that I thought to fix but forgot, it sometimes scans all shipsets twice instead of once.. can increase scanning time quite a bit when there are 50000 files to scan, most are ofcourse not deep scan as the Ai files, but only name scans to see if they are needed or not, but still.

For know (Until I fix it sometimes) the explanation for this behaviour is that the plug-in is very thorough and checks everyting twice to be sure!

Fyron · #4 September 3rd, 2004, 05:09 AM

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For know (Until I fix it sometimes) the explanation for this behaviour is that the plug-in is very thorough and checks everyting twice to be sure!

Spoken like a true programmer!