I want your mods!

[Kristoffer O]

Or at least I like to try them out from time to time

Unfortunately I can't use them if you use capitals in the dm file and not in the tga's and vice versa. My linux is case sensitive and the game crashes when I try to use some mods.

I was about to try the Avernum mod, but ran into problems.

Edit: Seems it was only the Avernum Guard and the Avernum Archer that had the problem.

Others might have the same problem.

[Kristoffer O]

Tharoon Servant spear is not capitalized in the tga.

[lch]

Hah, I have told Sombre about the case thing some days ago, too, and he said that he'll now pay greater attention to it.

You'll be able to download 8 of the mod nation in one big package in a couple of days, when I have prepared them for that mod nation game that I plan to host.

[Gandalf Parker]

I should be able to come up with a quicky line that you can do to fix that. Some SED or TR command to convert them all to lower case.

[Kristoffer O]

Just tried Insectiods. It worked fine. Quite interesting mod with the one way shapeshifting breeding machines. It took me a while to realize that I had a mictlanish sacrifice dependent dominion.

I imagine the swarm queens are rather powerful. 3 monthly flying freespawns with fear and 19 def seems quite a bargain.

[Shovah32]

Choke-points are definitely that mods friends. Dominion 10 at a chokepoint with a few spawners and you have an army per turn. To fight against you the enemy HAS to fight your dominion or its all over.

[llamabeast]

The capital letter issue is quite a recurring issue. I just always make sure to run dominions via a terminal window the first time I use a new mod. Then when it crashes it tells you which file caused the problem. So I rename that file and try again, till it works. It generally takes two or three attempts with each new mod.

Gandalf's idea is a good one, it should be possible to fix automatically.

[DrPraetorious]

ls */*.tga */*.rgb | awk '{print "mv " $1 " " tolower($1);}' | csh
# If you get a bunch of "file does not exist" messages, make the directories.

awk '{fout = ARGV[ARGIND] "_fixed";} {pmode = 1;} /\.rgb/ || /\.tga/{print tolower($0) > fout; pmode = 0;} (pmode == 1){print $0 > fout;}' *.dm

ls *_fixed | awk '{print "mv " $1 " " substr($1,1,length($1)-6);}' | csh

# Try that.

# Er.... back up your mods directory first.

[Sombre]

I'm currently in the process of making sure my mods are linux friendly. All releases from this point onwards will have no case issues.

In fact this week/end I will hopefully rerelease all of them fixed for linux.

Ulm Reborn will also get a couple more pretender choices and I'll do some CBM version work. Sylvania and Avernum maybe.

[Leif_-]

Kristoffer O said:
Or at least I like to try them out from time to time

Unfortunately I can't use them if you use capitals in the dm file and not in the tga's and vice versa.

So don't allow capitals in file-names in a dm. You have the power! The power of Greyskull.