[REL] Silent Hunter 4 Corruption Management System (SH4CMS)

[AllenZ1Sgt]

Thanks for your reply RR, I did look through your bat files and I wouldn't want to mess with it. The megamod choices you have in CMS are fine (at least for me)

[Rockin Robbins]

Announcing!

SH4CMS v1.5 is hereby released! Some goodies I've added:

• It can now make or fix an Op Monsun installation
• It can make or fix a We Dive at Dawn installation
• It makes or fixes a custom ModTest installation
• It can now repair your original Wolves of the Pacific directory, since many players use that exclusively
• I have substituted MultiSH4 v1.5 for the old version formerly used.

Enjoy everyone and thank you for all the great suggestions!

[J0313]

Howdy RR. I've got a little problem. When I run a fix on the game it restores the game back to a pristine state but it deletes my mod folder. I thought it wasn't suppose to do that?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by J0313

Howdy RR. I've got a little problem. When I run a fix on the game it restores the game back to a pristine state but it deletes my mod folder. I thought it wasn't suppose to do that?

It's not supposed to do that. It moves the mods folder outside the game directory, mirrors the game directory with SH4Pristine, then moves the mods folder back into the game folder.

[Rockin Robbins]

Here's the code that restores game directories (or creates them if they don't exist):

@echo off 
If exist ..\%destiny%\mods robocopy ..\%destiny%\mods ..\MODS /move 
robocopy "..\Sh4 pristine" "..\%destiny%" /mir 
attrib -R "..\%destiny%\*.*" /S /D 
if exist ..\MODS robocopy ..\MODS ..\%destiny%\MODS /move 
@echo on 
menu.bat

So first it looks up a directory and then to a subdirectory named %destiny%, a variable which contains the name of the directory you want to restore. If it has a directory named \MODS, it moves it up beside SH4CMS. In other words, if it finds \SH4TMO\MODS, it moves mods up a directory to \MODS, which sits beside \SH4TMO.

Then it mirrors \SH4Pristine against \%destiny%, in this case \SH4TMO. It removes any files not found in \SH4Pristeen. And it copies any files from \SH4Pristine which are not identical with the file of the same name in \SH4TMO. If it finds a file in \SH4Pristine which is not found in \SH4TMO it copies it there. When that operation is done, \SH4Pristine and \SH4TMO are identical with SH4Pristine being the master copy.

The the line starting with attrib -r sets all the files and directories in \SH4TMO, which are write protected to a read/write state so the game can be played.

Finally, if the \MODS directory exists, (it does if it existed above!) SH4CMS moves it back into the game directory.

Four lines of code do a tremendous amount of work. If you do not interrupt the script during execution it basically cannot fail.

[J0313]

I don't know what is going on then.

Just figured it out RR. I was screwing the pooch on this one. I had forgot to uninstall the mods before using the fix/make. Sorry about that.

Another question though. How do you point the Webster fix to the correct install for it to work?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by J0313

I don't know what is going on then.

Just figured it out RR. I was screwing the pooch on this one. I had forgot to uninstall the mods before using the fix/make. Sorry about that.

Another question though. How do you point the Webster fix to the correct install for it to work?

Same kind of menu that I..........didn't update to the new options with the new version....

Looks like I have a little work to do!

[Rockin Robbins]

Ummmmmm........ Silent Hunter 4 Corruption Management System v1.5 has been quietly fixed so Webster's fix works as intended. If you downloaded yesterday you'll have to redownload if you want to be able to use Webster's fix on Op Monsun, We Dive at Dawn or a custom directory for mod testing.

Thanks to J0313 for the kick in the hind quarters there!

And yes, the Webster Fix module has a menu for you to choose the installation to perform it on.

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Same kind of menu that I..........didn't update to the new options with the new version....

Looks like I have a little work to do!

dontcha just ~hate~ it when that happens?...

[J0313]

I'm glad I helped out. I thought I was probably screwing that up too.

[Rockin Robbins]

You get too close to blocks of code and you just go codeblind. Hard stuff works great and the simple stuff is just rotten!

[Alstack]

Excellent app! Makes backing out of over aggressive modding a breeze.

[THEBERBSTER]

Highly recommended as a Companion to SH4CMS for all your multiple game installations being played.
Can be installed anywhere.
Will randomize your gramophone files in all your different SH4 games.
Just point it to your SH4.exe
Randomizes and starts your selected game.
SH4 Gramophone Randomiser By Shakje > Install Anywhere
Peter

[Red Devil]

Can I have a dope test please, this could be the work of a genius.



Not done anything yet, going to uninstall everything and install a virgin copy before I even look at the instructions.

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

Can I have a dope test please, this could be the work of a genius....

Careful there... we're already having a time of it keeping Rockin within the lines... yer gonna give him a complex!...