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Proposal about Full Conversion mod setup
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RE: Proposal about Full Conversion mod setup

I think it's a great idea, and actually it could be a little better:
Instead of using /mods dir, we can just use /custom_stories directly.

And we could make a small app in java to manage those mods.
To launch, delete, read description, whatever.

Why /custom_stories instead of /mods:
  • Because everybody has /custom_stories in their resources.cfg already. So nobody has no edit anything to use this app. And you can choose whether you want this app or not to keep your mods organized.
  • Players can keep placing their mods there, like they always had. Plus, with this app, they wouldn't have to worry about the type (CS or IFC). The app could just look for the main_init.cfg inside the folder, and consider it valid as IFC. If there's no main_init.cfg, then the app just runs Amnesia with no arguments. In case of having a main_init.cfg somewhere, it uses that path to launch the game. And we could even have different buttons for win/mac/linux.

I wouldn't worry about mods sharing resources, each IFC have their own resources.cfg. And we all make sure to put our own mod first on the list. To avoid this kind of problems.

What you think?

07-08-2014, 07:19 AM
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