A suggestion to improve the OOB Manager

[MarkSheppard]

Many good points Don, I see that keeping things "idiot proof" is a key design parameter for you guys.

Anyway, I think I may have a solution that will satisfy everyone and make modders' lives easier.

There's a freeware program out there developed to manage Silent Hunter III mods which would work excellently for SPCAMO products; Jonesoft Generic Mod Enabler.

Link to a Download from a Rome Total War Fansite



You uninstall the file in your WW2 or MBT folder, creating JSGME.exe, JoneSoft.txt and the MODS folder.



Running JSGME.exe for the first time reveals a blank slate. We gotta make some mods.



We go into the MODS folder and create folders matching where the modded files would go.

E.G. SHP Files as part of the MOD would go into

MODS\ModName\Game Data\Graphics

LBM files would go into

MODS\ModName\Game Data\Pictures

OOB files would go into

MODS\ModName\Game Data\OOBs

And So on.



We now have a mod on the list. To install, you just select the Mod, then hit the ">" button. The program will then copy the appropriate files into the matching directories; if it encounters a file that's already there, it makes a backup of that file to the !BACKUP directory.

To uninstall the mod, you select the mod from the Activicated Mods side and hit "<". It restores the original game files that were overwritten from the !BACKUP directory and deletes any files that were added.

[Double_Deuce]

Thi looks a lot like the MODSwapper for SPWAW. I mean it does the same thing. It basically makes installing/unistalling Mods a 2 click deal (select --> swap). It could be useful BUT probably only by a small #, at least until/if it catches on.

[junk2drive]

I use Modswapper to try to make SPWAW look like SPWW2. Also to swap uniform colours depending on the terrain to make it easier to see the troops.

The graphics in SPWW2 might be good enough to negate the need.

Most mods, like the ID flag mod, are a love/hate thing. You install them or you don't.