Multiple versions of same addons

[OxPecker 0]

What do people think about multiple versions of the same weapon or vehicle being made by different addon makers?

I realise you can't tell makers what they can and can't make, but does anyone find it a bit confusing and messy?

I know many addon makers follow the 3 letter tag to avoid naming clashes, but still.

An example is M4 variants - there have been so many packs of these made, as well as one's that come with troop packs, I can barely keep track any more.

And it's hard enough for mission makers to use addons in their missions due to people having to d/l them, let alone when there are 6 different versions to choose from (I think there 6 M249s released at the moment).

SO what does the community think? Any suggestions for handling this better, happy as it is, or what?

[miles teg 1]

Nah, I agree. They need to named carefully to avoid conflicts. What's confusing is that alot of M249's addons are mostly just modified versins of either the Taiwan Mod's M249 or Quakergamer's M249.... But I have just about all of them and so far so good.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[theavonlady 2]

What I like are new addons being made with separate class names like MODNAME SOLDIERS, MODNAME ARMOR, etc. (where modname is a unique identifier for the addon maker).

[OxPecker 0]

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Yes, that does help.

It's a shame the way OFP multiplayer handles addons. But I guess you would sit in the loading screen forever if you had to wait to get any missing addons for a mission, especially something big like the HK pack.

What I think we need is a central site that lists ALL addons, where do download them, class names etc etc. This would be a huge task, but I think I saw a month or tow back that someone here had attempted something similar.

Also if the community could pull together to organise addon packs (like the Desert pack peanuckle is arranging) it would help too. Some process to vote for addons you want in a pack, then compile a pack (with the creators permissions), or several packs more likely. Since this is the most central point for the OFP community, i think it should be done through these forums if possible.

[Totmacher 0]

Your right, we have to koordinate ouer work, but nobody want it. Modteams do not work togeter. Wy? There are many psg1 wariants or m4, m16 and so on. Do anybody need so many weapons. I plan a big weaponpack with all weapons from the HK pack and ohter in one pbo. To make it for mapper easylier to make missions. My question. Do you download hundrets addons for one mission ? or hundrets mission to one pbo ? Nobody wants to helb me But i do not stop my work. ! I plan to set a new standart of quality.

[Guest]

this is something I've been thinking about posting for a while, and this seems a good opportunity. I think it would be good for us (and the OFP community) if we at OPGWC could "reserve" the tag "ds_" for our addons, just like DKM and BAS seem to have done for theirs. If other mod teams could do the same, and maybe we can set up a thread/database on these forums, it might help everyone when it comes to downloading stuff. Say one thread, with one post each from each mod team listing their addons, the names of them, a link to a website. When each team releases new stuff, just edit the post. What do you guys think?

And if I see one more re-skined M1A1...........

[Eviscerator 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Leone @ Feb. 07 2003,12:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">this is something I've been thinking about posting for a while, and this seems a good opportunity. I think it would be good for us (and the OFP community) if we at OPGWC could "reserve" the tag "ds_" for our addons, just like DKM and BAS seem to have done for theirs. If other mod teams could do the same, and maybe we can set up a thread/database on these forums, it might help everyone when it comes to downloading stuff. Say one thread, with one post each from each mod team listing their addons, the names of them, a link to a website. When each team releases new stuff, just edit the post. What do you guys think?

And if I see one more re-skined M1A1...........<span id='postcolor'>

this is already there....its called OFPEC

[pzvg 0]

Well, I personally download them all,then look at them and decide which I'll keep <or modify on my own hook,hell my game my rules, 'long as I don't upload or fail to credit, it's freebase>

Who's name is on it is a GUIDE, and ONLY a guide, they might have had bad info, or an off day <reversed name on an otherwise perfect pistol eh?>

and there is no such thing as too many addons,if you can't keep track of them,improve your filing system.

Hint,I open new D/l into a folder that has the dateof the download on it,these reside in my main download folder, every 30 days all folders past 30 days get reviewed and either backed up to disc or deleted, depending on quality and interest level. <------pay attention you mod teams that like to put exes in your downloads, I positively LOATHE that crap,

youcan make the best mod in the world,but include an exe,and you've earned it a shotput into the wastecan,

don't say we dinna warn ye either.

[Guest]

What's wrong with an exe? Would you you prefer to have to download and install 50 individual files?

[N.o.R.S.u 0]

Zip and Rar are made for that purpose, exes are much slower to install and sometimes they just don't work. Individual addons don't add any new code to the game so that's why there's no need to use exes, unlike in BIS' offical patches.

[Guest]

Yep...point taken. For complicated installs such as a large mod an exe would be useful, but for individual addons...yeah, there's no point in an exe.

[pzvg 0]

Using the BW mod demo for an example (not picking on them,other mods do it also)

when an exe unpacks, IT decides where it's going,which makes sense, right up until the moment it installs those Leo tanks in your dedicated WWII addons folder, with no easy wayto remove them, ditto for those of us with multiple addon folders to avoid the dreaded "failed load memorymap" message

nothing like your entire clever work around being shot to hell by a mod team using an exe.

Now don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with exe's (I should have been clear)

Just badly written ones, if you are going to use it,include the lines needed to allow the shmoo on the other end to DECIDE where your mod will unpack,trust me that's good for a rave review all by itself.

[Guest]

Yep....I agree. I think a mod should put all of its files in one folder (named after the Mod) and you should be able to choose where in your OFP that Mod folder goes. I don't use the default installation path for OFP and things that want to install following only that path shit me right off, as I'm sure it does anyone else not following protocol

[Koolkid101 0]

I'm mad at the people who made the U.N and Canadian troops they were awesome but they took up too much of the men space!

[Bronski 0]

The biggest thing people need to take advantage of addon wise is the ability to make a new group for their addons. Also it would be nice to have the older ones updated.

A great example of this is the SEBNam pack. Very easy to find everything.

I also prefer zips and rar files to exe's. With zips and rars i can see what the names of the pbo's are and are easier to take out when i don't need them.