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Originally Posted by tater
First, let me state right off that I'm with AVG, the free exchange of information, techniques, tools, etc benefits everyone. There are possibilities as of yet unexplored, and every new set of eyeballs is a potential novelty that we might use.
With that out there, supermods can assemble component parts with much of it "off the shelf," or at least off the shelf with minor tweaks.
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Which, as you know, is escatly what's been going on with RFB. Different minimods are rolled in and any possible everwrites are taken care of. Sometimes the minimodder helps. sometimes the RFB crew does the merging.
THis is why AVG is calling RFB a supermod, although it isn't there yet. When RSRD and ROW hit the point where Leo and Lurker give the go ahead, you'll see RFB plus (for lack of a better term at the moment). One download, but the ROW and RSRD folders will still be seperate. however they'll appear in JSGM numbered to appear in their install order.
Example:
01- ROW
02- RFB
03- RSRD
IN JSGME, if you highlight all of them at once and hit activate, it starts from the top down activating each mod. Everything installs in order. Will even be a couple of optional ones. I did this with ROW- numbered them the way they are in the ROW thread and boy does it make things easy.
Anyway, thre's more to that idea you'll see when things are at that point
As for tater talking about documentation, I agree and that'll come when RFB comes out of the release candidate state. One thing that frustrated me when I first strated looking into the bigger mods was not having a clear list of which mini-mods were rolled into it so I wouldn't duplicate stuff or messs something up.
Lurker has a list of every file used in RSRD other modders can look at. This would be a good start for all of us to do. So I'll get one out for RFB in a couple of days and post a link to the file in the first RFB topic. next would come annotating the changes. Beery and others did this in text files for RFB 1.31 by adding comments you could read in the file itself. More difficult in the hex files, but a readme would cover that.
I agree with Ducimus that options are good because a player can fit the game to their personality- which is why the idea of a GWX all ruling mod for SH4 doesn't appeal to me.