CannisRabidus
DCoder,Sep 28 2005, 06:58 AM Wrote:5. YROs can contain multiple maps.This I did not know.
Quote:What logically follows (my understanding, might be incorrect):This is potentially very useful!
1. Using assault01.yro and assault02.yro would fix the problem of "maps are in the list, but no preview and can't play them", aka undownloaded mappacks having entries in the maplist - entries would only appear once the user has the mappacks.
2. Using .yro, when assault03.yro is released, the user can just drop it in his directory and play. Using .mix, he would have to wait for the modder to update the PKT inside his mod, and redownload the entire mod.
However assault03 is going to have some 2-flag maps, which might require mod updates to fully support. If such support is needed then this solution won't help here, because I'm complicating things for 03. I'll have to think about this.
Right off the top of my head though, this system would:
1) Remove the ability for the modder to construct his own mapfilters for assault maps. He'd be stuck with a one-size-fits-all set of gamemode defintions in the YRO.
2) Similarly, it makes it impossible for a modder to selectively disable assault maps should he wish to.
Quote:3. Can YROs contain other files except map/pkt? (Assault Mappack #2 contains terrain fixes which enable tunnels.) This is an important point for non-TX users...Unless YR does things with the YRO format that RA2 could not do with the MMX format, then it seems the answer is most probably no. We wanted to do this several years ago to add new graphics with maps, but it didn't work, despite the fact that MMX is supposed to be a MIX. This was a long time ago and we were pretty unsophisticated then
Quote:Now I just tested an idea, which I should have tested long ago, but never thought of. Mea culpa...You're testing 2 different things. One test is an identical filename, and the other is including the gamemode definition that already existed. Which makes it work right? Or are both needed?
I always tested a loose missionsdc.pkt with content like...
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