Mini-Mods taking GigaBytes of Space ?

[excentriker.de]

The move thing doesnt work because it will move it from the original BF2

like i said the Levels-folder moved its location, so its clear that bf2 cant find it. What do we have todo now ? Maybe we can not start BF2 by doubleclicking on a link to the bf2.exe, but maybe we create or copy a batch-file that
1. moves the Levels-folder back to BF2-mod and
2. runs BF2.exe ?


The file layout is really simple: in your ...\Battlefield 2\mods\ you have move_levels.bat
in your mod-folders , also BF2 you have a batch-file that calls the move_levels.bat and starts the mod.

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file layout

...\Battlefield 2\mods\move_levels.bat

move /Y ..\bf2\Levels .
move /Y ..\mod1\Levels .
move /Y ..\mod2\Levels .
move /Y ..\mod3\Levels .

...\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\run_bf2.bat

call ..\move_levels.bat

cd ..
cd ..

bf2.exe  +menu 1 +fullscreen 1

...\Battlefield 2\mods\mod1\run_mod1.bat

call ..\move_levels.bat

cd ..
cd ..

bf2.exe  +menu 1 +fullscreen 1 +modPath mods/mod1

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I hope this was a little better to understand how it works.
I tested this and it works very well, but maybe you have to decide for yourself if it makes sense to move your levels-folder around on evry gamestart. I dont think that there is a risc or something, but if you have a big partition and a great amount of free space then you dont have to do this.

mfg

[excentriker.de]

Re: Mini-Mods taking GigaBytes of Space ?

someone tested it , does it work ?

[silent_tone]

Re: Mini-Mods taking GigaBytes of Space ?

This is just another totally rediculous decision by Dice. Making a small change to a single weapon requires duplicating most of the games binaries, when the change should be a 3KB file. What it should do, is every time the game loads a resource from the HD, check the mod folder for an override, else open it from the default directory. If I coded something this foolishly at my job, I'd be fired.

Somebody please tell me we're just not using the editor correctly.