A standard! A standard!

[geoschmo]

My personal preferance it to have only the directory the files are actually in. The race name directory for example for a shipset. But for a mod I like the Modname folder and the data folder under that. I will put it where it needs to be thank you. But a standard to me would be useless anyway cause I will never stop checking them before extracting them.

Geoschmo

[Cheeze]

When installing a new race/shipset, sometimes the problems comes from how completely the creator worked on it. Some are just a shipset and generally the AI files so it can play as a computer foe. Others have list of design names and perhaps one or more empires files to go with the shipset. This would require files in different directories, so the creator was just trying to be helpful. These creators usually include a readme file to tell you how to install it, so you might try looking at the zipfile's contents before unzipping.

[Gryphin]

I unzip to a folder totaly separate from the game
My main game folder is: D:\SE_TDM_FQM
I unzip to > d:\SE\Races\RaceName
Then I go to whereever it unziped to
Cut it
Paste it to the ..D:\SE_...\Race
Extra steps but at least I know where everything is.
I guess a standard would be nice. I'll follow it when i am ready with my sets.

[capnq]

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." -- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

[Captain Kwok]

I think .zip files should be setup with paths so that you can just unzip them to your Space Empires base directory and they'll be placed as intended.

[Gryphin]

The more I think of it I feel I would like the sets to be expanded into a folder with their own name. I want it to be up to me to tell it what folders above there such as:
D:\SE_TDM_FQM\Pictures\Races
or
F:\SEIV\TDM\Pictures\Races

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by capnq:
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." -- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

That's weird. I've been saying that for about 20 years and never knew where that came from....