Great idea for a really useful ofp application.

[Poet 0]

It would be fantastic if someone could make an OFP Launcher that lets you select Mod folders and then launches OFP with all the correct folders activated.

Its a pain having loads of Mod folders, and having to have some addons in their own folder because of compatibility purposes. Playing online or just SP gets to be a hassle making shortcuts all the time for all the different mod folders a mission or server might require.

It should be a simple app to make, that looks at your OFP folder and picks up e.g any folder prefaced with an @ ( e.g:  @Bas - it would mean people would have to name all their mod folders to @... ) and then present a nice tick list so you can select which folders you want and then launch the game ( and a nice option would be to output the results to text so the custom shortcut can be quickly copied to AllSeeingEye for easy online play. )

As much as I don't know diddly about programming ( I tried to do it just using .bat files and failed miserably ), I imagine it should be quite a simple thing to do...

Whatcha Fink?

( I went looking to see if anyone has already made something similar and couldnt fine any )

[LowLevelFunctionary 0]

Hmmm never heard of OFP quickstart eh?  Pick it up at the Cybutek site.  Its main purpose is to speed up loading OFP however it has some nice features like using mods.  All you have to do is select the mod and it will load it up.

[Poet 0]

No I'd not heard of it, though I probably saw it while I was looking, I didnt know it included the option to launch with Mods.

Though it does require that I type in the mod folder name manually, which is a bit of a pain when you want to launch 3 or 4 or more mod folders at once.

Yeah I'm a lazy sod. But that way you'd be able to keep pesky Addons that cause problems ( such as the wonderful Commanche from DKM ) off to one side, only calling them in when needed.

[theavonlady 2]

Esentially, you want an OFP starter that lets you load and create profiles of which mod folders to use when starting OFP.

Not to diffucult to implement, though I don't know a thing about VB, C or C++.

[Apocalypse4 0]

Go to OFP CZ

click on sidebar link saying Utilities

OFP CZ Utilities

Download the addon manager, it lets you load and deactivate ofp addons and you can start ofp from there too

[Poet 0]

Thanks for the reply Apocolypse, didnt spot it til now.

Id looked at the Addon manager, and its a great tool, but Im still too lazy to go through the hundreds of addons and different folders I have to launch ofp.

So many missions and campaigns require different mixes of addons, and there are quite a few pesky addons that clash with each other and cause errors ....

I think I have a solution in site ... not sure.