Krooga on 11/12/2006 at 00:51
I'm just curious, is there any reason why Zombe's Mod Manager extracts the contents of the CRFs in the patch directory?
Nameless Voice on 11/12/2006 at 01:27
It's because of the way the patch works.
Anything in the patch folder will override all other content. That means that it would override replacement content installed as part of a mod.
The modmanager gets around this by extracting the patch data and then hiding the patch folder.
That way, the information contained in them can be overriden properly by mods.
Kolya on 11/12/2006 at 17:36
The next version will get around this by offering to merge the patch CRFs into the existing ones.
Nameless Voice on 11/12/2006 at 18:20
Which I have to say is a much cleaner method.
I've already manually done the same to my own.
Krooga on 12/12/2006 at 06:23
Yeah, I think I might do the same, tidies up the SS2 directory a bit. With the CRF files being ZIP archives, could I just add the patch files to the main CRF files with any old ZIP program? Or do I need to use particular settings for compression and whatnot?
Kolya on 12/12/2006 at 23:17
The CRFs pack files with minimal compression. Considering todays systems are much faster you can compress them as you like.
