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[Legacy_Elvamir]

               At World of Caenyr we use mainly custom content, with the exception of some awesome haks designed by the CTP team.  However, we've found over recent years with broadband being widely the norm as compared to the early years, that it doesn't really detract players like it once did.

To simplify it even further, however, we utlize Tanita's Worldgate. This is an AWESOME program for managing hak updates, so when we make changes players don't have to redownload entire haks, the just run this program and it updates their haks by downloading and installing only the files within them that were altered. Very simple system and saves a lot of time for the players. '> Highly recommend it for anyone using custom content!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadooow]

               

Elvamir wrote...

To simplify it even further, however, we utlize Tanita's Worldgate. This is an AWESOME program for managing hak updates, so when we make changes players don't have to redownload entire haks, the just run this program and it updates their haks by downloading and installing only the files within them that were altered. Very simple system and saves a lot of time for the players. '> Highly recommend it for anyone using custom content!

+1 for worldgate, i also use it for NWN1 PW and my players dont have any issues with additional content

Its therefore odd that there is a new initiative to make a hak autodownloader (and then use that new one) when a suitable autodownloader already exists. Maybe not perfect but I managed to put together a worldgate archive containing my PW paths etc. so player only need to unpack it and click update.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_painofdungeoneternal]

               WorldGate is something I used for our PW before the AutoDownloader, it's from back in 2008 and requires some technical expertise to use, not a lot. ( there also was another one that was similar ) And I can say it was wonderful for what it does, but I used to do the hand holding of helping end users get our content, and reminding them to go run it. I actually first developed Never Launcher while using World Gate, mainly to merge content and assemble the content for my PW ( "dex2" ), and dealing with continual version updates.

My project is not aimed at a technical issue, like downloading, like launching, like fixing gamespy, my project is aimed at players who do not want to think, to enable them to just hit "play" and get in game. I am intending on doing all the work for the player, and for the author/PW admin make it support whatever current process they are using, even if that means supporting WorldGate by downloading it and configuring the download url, but then that seems like it will add another step for the player, will probably just have to recreate how it works .

I imagine some PW's will want to set things up to support what I am doing, others won't, but the trick to making things easy is to make it so from the player perspective, regardless of whether they want to play on a PW, play a Single player module from the vault, or if they want 30 different sets of custom content for use in their SP game, they can just select what they want and hit play, and for it to just work regardless.

WorldGate is aimed at a downloader for your PW, my goal is a downloader for ALL PW's, and Single player, and includes version control / merging of Vault content. It's overall design is more like the Nexus Module Manager in scope, except it's actually going to support those who use mac's as well ( which tends to not happen with most of these tools ), and it can merge 2da's, tlk's, erf's, hak's, compile scripts, and whatever other work is required of the player beyond just hitting "play".
               
               

               

                     Modifié par painofdungeoneternal, 03 mars 2013 - 03:55 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Elvamir]

               That definitely sounds very awesome, bro!!! Definitely wasn't suggesting your efforts are a waste of time, hope you didn't take it that way. Was just commenting on the discussion about whether or not custom content detracts from players by explaining the way we manage that issue at World of Caenyr. I love the idea of a program that makes the process thinkless. We do have to post and remind people to run Worldgate, so something like you suggest would be a great improvement. '>