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by darkbasic
02 Apr 2021, 08:45
Forum: Feature Requests and Suggestions
Topic: Full path tracing option in the future or after 1.0?
Replies: 12
Views: 10166

Re: Full path tracing option in the future or after 1.0?

psi29a wrote: 12 Mar 2021, 12:07 We don't have that luxury, at all, as Morrowind just gives you one and many 4K mods also only have one. We have to do all of that conversion on-the-fly which is very CPU and GPU extensive...
...and easy to cache once computed. It could be even pre-computed once before starting the game.
by darkbasic
02 Apr 2021, 08:29
Forum: General Development
Topic: SQLite based approach to storing game world state
Replies: 31
Views: 32156

Re: SQLite based approach to storing game world state

The main purpose of this is to simplify data access for modders. Making modders learn SQL is not an option at all, in my opinion. Partially true, it depends on the complexity of the query. An ORM makes simple queries easy, but whenever you need anything remotely more complex it makes your life a he...
by darkbasic
03 Feb 2021, 18:43
Forum: General Development
Topic: Mod packaging - OMWPACK
Replies: 29
Views: 20873

Re: Mod packaging - OMWPACK

Isn't this more about removing the costly unpacking step? They're still using archives, they're just bridging the archive and the filesystem to make installation faster. Not only so, but also reducing the amount of wasted space on disk and the cost of copying the data. On the server the rpms are st...
by darkbasic
03 Feb 2021, 11:14
Forum: General Development
Topic: Mod packaging - OMWPACK
Replies: 29
Views: 20873

Re: Mod packaging - OMWPACK

By the way I personally think that archives are a thing of the past: it should be the job of the file system to transparently compress data. This is the way a modern package manager handles compression while never using archives: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DNF-RPM-CoW-Fe...
by darkbasic
03 Feb 2021, 10:59
Forum: General Development
Topic: Mod packaging - OMWPACK
Replies: 29
Views: 20873

Re: Mod packaging - OMWPACK

Could portmod devs be convinced to to roll an openmw compatible 'pack'? I mean, a zip archive is better than many loose files, or even better... since openmw supports it, lz4 archive? Plain text meta-data op front to make it easily parse-able, then the content in lz4. portmod is all about openmw co...
by darkbasic
03 Feb 2021, 10:01
Forum: General Development
Topic: Mod packaging - OMWPACK
Replies: 29
Views: 20873

Re: Mod packaging - OMWPACK

This theoretical omwpack wouldn't turn OpenMW into a mod manager, it would just make managing mods so simply that you wouldn't need one. It won't be that simple, the main reason being that you can't expect mod authors to provide exhaustive dependencies, provide compatibility patches for every singl...
by darkbasic
03 Feb 2021, 09:53
Forum: General Development
Topic: Mod packaging - OMWPACK
Replies: 29
Views: 20873

Re: Mod packaging - OMWPACK

mistermoonshine wrote: 03 Feb 2021, 01:08 Mod Organizer 2 already does basically all of that. No need to reinvent the wheel. It could have better OpenMW integration though.
Where is my Linux ppc64le binary? I run OpenMW on a Power 9 machine.
by darkbasic
19 Jan 2021, 15:53
Forum: General Modding
Topic: Portmod - Mod Manager
Replies: 76
Views: 93433

Re: Portmod - Mod Manager

And the total overhaul package isn't complete yet, though I think it's equivalent to the combination of meta-momw/expanded-vanilla and meta-momw/graphics-overhaul (the latter of which is not complete), plus one other mod, so if you want to get as close as possible for now, you can install those. Is...
by darkbasic
18 Oct 2020, 18:18
Forum: General Development
Topic: Lua scripting in OpenMW
Replies: 137
Views: 111597

Re: Lua scripting in OpenMW

ptmikheev wrote: 18 Oct 2020, 18:14 Definitely no. Such tool is a big and complicated thing that means multiple dependencies (like tensorflow), non-free voice presets and problems with licenses.
Dependencies can be made optional, licensing issues are harder to deal with instead.