I want your mods!

[Sombre]

But that wouldn't stop people randomly putting capitals in the tga filenames. The reason people do that is because windows doesn't care about case.

It's not too hard for linux users to fix, anyway.

[Ballbarian]

It's not too hard for linux users to fix, anyway.

Now that is blatant case insensitivity.
I personally am a very case sensitive windows user.
I think that it is a coder thang.

[Amos]

I imagine the swarm queens are rather powerful. 3 monthly flying freespawns with fear and 19 def seems quite a bargain.

I arrived at 3 after alot of testing. They are so easy to rout that less than 3 wouldnt be worth it.

[Kristoffer O]

> I arrived at 3 after alot of testing. They are so easy to rout that less than 3 wouldnt be worth it.

True, they routed a lot, but fear can be devastating. I don't think they are that powerful initially, but when armies grow they might be.

An army of 1000 is as vulnerable to fear as an army of 100. One fear unit can cause the whole squad to be forced to make a fear check, even if it has not lost 25% of its initial members.

[DrPraetorious]

This script should fix the case issues.

Run it in your mods directory. For the love of God do not run it anywhere else or you'll be very very sorry.

Let me know if it doesn't work.

[Leif_-]

Sombre said:
But that wouldn't stop people randomly putting capitals in the tga filenames.

No, but Dominions could insist that all files it read must be in miniscules only. It's the only way to make sure all the mods and such are platform independent.

[Sombre]

In the long term, maybe, but realistically all that would do is make it so the mods don't work for anyone instead of just not working for linux users. Until they were all fixed that is. It would take less effort for linux users to simply fix the mods they want to play, or explain things to the mod makers, like me, who had no idea that some OSs actually cared about case.

[Gandalf Parker]

Well it was pretty likely to enforce case since the game is created on linux. Its hard for the devs to consider all the possible cross-compatible features. Ive asked for the text files, such as .map files, to be dos version instead of unix. Personally I wish all the file formats were more cross-platform friendly.

[DrPraetorious]

AFAICT it supports either DOS or Unix format text files on either platform. I have to switch all the text files into unix format to manipulate them with awk etc., though, so I usually prefer to keep them in Unix format even on my win machine.

Anyway, I just posted another mod, and everything in it is lower case .

I find artwork is much less of a problem now that I can just do pixel carpentry on KO's stuff.

[Gandalf Parker]

Yes it works for both. And I work most of mine on linux also. But my thinking is that its usually true that linux people can handle the difference better than windows people.