I want your mods!

Sombre · #1 June 6th, 2007, 02:39 AM

But that wouldn't stop people randomly putting capitals in the tga filenames. The reason people do that is because windows doesn't care about case.

It's not too hard for linux users to fix, anyway.

Ballbarian · #2 June 6th, 2007, 03:04 AM

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It's not too hard for linux users to fix, anyway.

Now that is blatant case insensitivity.
I personally am a very case sensitive windows user.
I think that it is a coder thang.

Leif_- · #3 June 6th, 2007, 01:16 PM

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Sombre said:
But that wouldn't stop people randomly putting capitals in the tga filenames.

No, but Dominions could insist that all files it read must be in miniscules only. It's the only way to make sure all the mods and such are platform independent.

Sombre · #4 June 6th, 2007, 09:22 PM

In the long term, maybe, but realistically all that would do is make it so the mods don't work for anyone instead of just not working for linux users. Until they were all fixed that is. It would take less effort for linux users to simply fix the mods they want to play, or explain things to the mod makers, like me, who had no idea that some OSs actually cared about case.

Gandalf Parker · #5 June 7th, 2007, 12:38 AM

Well it was pretty likely to enforce case since the game is created on linux. Its hard for the devs to consider all the possible cross-compatible features. Ive asked for the text files, such as .map files, to be dos version instead of unix. Personally I wish all the file formats were more cross-platform friendly.

DrPraetorious · #6 June 7th, 2007, 01:32 AM

AFAICT it supports either DOS or Unix format text files on either platform. I have to switch all the text files into unix format to manipulate them with awk etc., though, so I usually prefer to keep them in Unix format even on my win machine.

Anyway, I just posted another mod, and everything in it is lower case

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I find artwork is much less of a problem now that I can just do pixel carpentry on KO's stuff.

Gandalf Parker · #7 June 7th, 2007, 11:10 AM

Yes it works for both. And I work most of mine on linux also. But my thinking is that its usually true that linux people can handle the difference better than windows people.

Xietor · #8 June 10th, 2007, 10:34 AM

Hi all,

I am in some desperate need of advice. To test the Epic Heroes Mod for mp, we are running a 12 race game on a 250 province map. We are on turn 8 and one of the players(Ctis) posted this:

Small problem... When I opened my army set up an error message popped up saying that it could not open the Flytrap1.tga file. Help? I really don't want to stale again.

The flytrap1.tga file is the domsummon20 monster that the Ctis Epic Hero can summon in a strong dominion. SO I am guessing Ctis had no problem doing his 1st 7 turns because this offending creature was not part of his armies.

The real curve ball is he says he uses windows, not linux. While flytrap is capitalized in the mod, I use windows and have no issue whatsoever summoning the creature.

My second question is this: to make Epic Heroes Mod user friendly to Linux users, are there any files other than the tga files that have to be lower case? Do the names of the monsters, weapons, and everything else have to be lower case as well? Before I release the next version, I want all issues with Linux users resolved.

The link to the mod being used in the game is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?e99ud3xxhng

Thanks in advance for any assistance.