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Posted November 14, 2012
http://www.the-postmortem.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2170

Just reading through the thread at posty reminded me of how frustrating addons for Blood can be. I had recently mangled a OUWB installation in which I had finally installed the Death wish addon by Bloatoid successfully, leading me to wonder if their wasn't a better way.

Any older Blood fans out there remember certain addons that contained uninstall batch files? Would a standardized method of creating addons limit some of the mistakes people such as myself insist on making? I know one of the problems has to do with ini files replacing Blood's ini or renaming said file. Also there's the replacing of retail blood resources with homebrew ones that usually involved renaming. I'm thinking an uninstall BAT would solve many of these problems if everyone could get together on some sort of minimum specs for an installation to have.
Posted November 14, 2012
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zZaRDoZz: http://www.the-postmortem.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2170

Just reading through the thread at posty reminded me of how frustrating addons for Blood can be. I had recently mangled a OUWB installation in which I had finally installed the Death wish addon by Bloatoid successfully, leading me to wonder if their wasn't a better way.

Any older Blood fans out there remember certain addons that contained uninstall batch files? Would a standardized method of creating addons limit some of the mistakes people such as myself insist on making? I know one of the problems has to do with ini files replacing Blood's ini or renaming said file. Also there's the replacing of retail blood resources with homebrew ones that usually involved renaming. I'm thinking an uninstall BAT would solve many of these problems if everyone could get together on some sort of minimum specs for an installation to have.
An add-on manager wouldn't be to hard to do, the only problem is that some mods actually need to mod Blood's original files to work correctly. You can backup and restore files as you've said, but in the even of a system crash, the files would be in a mangled order, unless the Add-on manager had error correction built in (md5/sha file hash checks). To be truly effective, it should be paired up with a website that offers the add-ons for download and user review. That way the user doesn't have to download a monolithic package like the "One Unit Whole Blood Launcher" and new add-ons can be advertized as they are released.
Posted November 14, 2012
I wouldn't mind that. I found Death Wish super easy to install, myself, you just drop the files in and make a shortcut. RAtM installed the same way, but BPF has some weird installer that I am terrified will break my installation.
Posted November 14, 2012
Thanks for responding the both of you.

@doccarnby

DW was simple once I grasped a few basics and updated to the latest version. Not too sure about having multiple versions out there is a good thing though. Also, returning Blood to its "standard" retail install state should never be an issue for the end user, at least not reqire a clean install of the game.

quote Dusty: An add-on manager wouldn't be to hard to do, the only problem is that some mods actually need to mod Blood's original files to work correctly.

If a bat file can alter Blood files a second bat can return them to there original state. You might have to require player use a certain version of blood- that's fair enough, but to alter retail blood files and have no way to set them back is a little harsh for our end users out there.
Posted November 15, 2012
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zZaRDoZz: quote Dusty: An add-on manager wouldn't be to hard to do, the only problem is that some mods actually need to mod Blood's original files to work correctly.

If a bat file can alter Blood files a second bat can return them to there original state. You might have to require player use a certain version of blood- that's fair enough, but to alter retail blood files and have no way to set them back is a little harsh for our end users out there.
that's why an add-on manager should make archive copies of the original files with checksums to verify the integrity of the file itself.
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