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Title: Combining PBO files.... Possible?
Post by: zipp on 07 Apr 2003, 20:16:29

I have an online group that play regularly, we surf the OFP sites looking for addons and vote on the ones all of us think would be useful.  The problem we are having is keeping track of the addons in the addon folders.  Is it possible to combine all the downloaded addons and make them a single PBO file?  are there files inside the PBO that would have to be edited for each addon.  How can we do this to make our addon managment easier?

Thanks in advance for your help

Title: Re:Combining PBO files.... Possible?
Post by: qwertyuio on 07 Apr 2003, 21:17:33

Yes this is possible, but it will require

SEVERE

[/b][/i][/u] re-writing in the cpp file, in which every addon you have will have to be defined!

So, if you're doing that, I wish you luck...

Title: Re:Combining PBO files.... Possible?
Post by: zipp on 08 Apr 2003, 16:53:13

I take it make those changes will be difficult?

Title: Re:Combining PBO files.... Possible?
Post by: SelectThis on 10 Apr 2003, 18:01:27

Yep, very very difficult and time consuming. eg,  You'd need to retag all the classnames, redirect the cpp to the new pbo, redirect the custom textures for all the p3d models to the new pbo, plus get permission from the author to edit them for public release.
SelectThis

Title: Re:Combining PBO files.... Possible?
Post by: benreeper on 10 Apr 2003, 23:47:31

Use a folder.

Ben

Title: Re:Combining PBO files.... Possible?
Post by: zipp on 13 Apr 2003, 17:46:40

Surely it can't be as easy as making a folder called something.pbo and dropping the addons we use in it, or is it?