Seamless addon/mission management

[Mope528]

I LOVE IT, I was just going to say that but I searched and I can't believe someone else thinks like me, AWESOME you are dude

I got "OFP watch" which is kinda a crappy addon manager which for me only works on one server "LOL" I tried to go to rts3 server and downloaded like 1.3 gigabites of stuff, and then when I connected, it just kicks me for no reason. saying missing stuff.

It would be GODLY if bis or codemasters or WHOEVER it is that's making these games I'm confused forgive me. game1 game2 AA. but if they had a OFFICIAL addon manager in the game that would auto download them if you didn't have them, i'd love it

[shinRaiden]

Ouch, this is a year+ old thread.

Getting back to priorities. The community needs to structure their addons correctly, and plan for patching to allow this kind of integration. Addons At Ease is a step in this direction, but many addon makers find the dependency requirements too "inconvienient". Well if addons were structured correctly the mega mods would be 1~10% the size that they are now, and stuff would be patchable.

It doesnt do any good to make an autodownloader if the downloads are auto-clobbered.

[FRidh]

It would be awesome to have a central server with all the addons. Maybe we could have that central server and make the same addons available on other computers around the world using something like bittorrent.

However, you also need to include dependancies in the database for each addon, so if you would want to download a mission, you get to see what addons are required. Maybe something like APT that Debian Linux is using. It would be great to have something like that for OFP. Every addon would have a unique ID and its version.

When using dependancies you could also have different versions in the same database. If you have 2 different addons and they each need a different version of another addon, you would be able to download them both. Also, better backwards compatibility could be added that way.

What should be added, what was already mentioned, is the possibility to search the database for certain things, like the period and country.

When you start OFP it could search the database for newer versions of each official file and addon. But it should also be possible to turn it off.

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Edit: wow, I&#39;ve been reading these forums for years, but never posted before :-&#124;</span>

[tug2000]

Funnily enough i have started programming a version of this.

Uses XML feeds from community sites to my server This includes the URL to the file, Description info, dependancies list and "Parent" i.e. if the addon is an update they are grouped together.

The app would be run outside of OFP but would inspect you addons folder and determine any updates or dependancies which are missing, then either display links to those files or just download automatically.

I am planning to build this with the ability to "plug" extra games into it without much work but flashpoint first

Any thoughts?