Well, Source-descended games have me stumped. There’s a bunch of a variation in behavior between them (consider L4D2 campaign creation versus Portal 2’s map transitions) and I’m trying to find the right technique to make PackBSP work differently depending on what the user has selected… Even assuming I can correctly identify the features of what they picked.<\/p>\n
Sometimes that means little things like specifically looking for certain entities that aren’t listed in the FGD files. Other times it almost means changing what GUI a user will see. \u00c2\u00a0Creating completely different “editions” of PackBSP seems like it would lead to its own difficulties keeping everything updated, so I’m hoping to find some solution with the Spring framework. I considered the Apache Commons-Configuration library for a while, but I really do need the ability to swap out different code and wiring as opposed to key\/value settings.<\/p>\n
This gets a little weirder when you consider how to handle new mods. Should it limp along, treating “Mod X” as if it were the same as default Half Life? How easy would it be to add support for Mod X? How would the program recognize it if the authors did a revamp and released “Mod X 1.5”?<\/p>\n
Perhaps the best solution is to mostly divorce the detection of games from the identification of games. So the user sees that they can pick “Zombie Shooterz” as a game, but it is up to them to tell PackBSP to use the “Half Life 2 Episode 2” setting, or the “L4D2” setting, depending on what code-base the game is built from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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