[Drag0nflamez]

QUOTE (Alt @ Jan 11 2011, 22:31)

QUOTE (silver007 @ Oct 11 2010, 00:10) •Remove read only settings from VC. •Install specific components of the GTALC installation only (models, data, etc) •Web Install I don't think this is really needed because: 1) NSIS can overwrite and delete files with "read only attributes". 2) Whats the point of this? You can easily extract all stuff using 7-zip for example 3) I don't really imagine how this works but if it's check-boxes in installer for some specific add-ons I think its bad idea. Just mention in ReadMe add-ons topic.

1) Good point
2) User experience, some people who mod it are n00bs, that need quick backups (though including a backup program would work out too)
3) Web install means that you can make the installer itself like 1MB or so and then it downloads the rest of the files. It's meant to speed up the download. Plus it allows you to let it only download the things you need. So it's not meant to be included as part of a 60MB+ archive

If you need some help with NSIS - there's a wiki for that

[Alt]

Still I think those tasks are pointless and doesn't cost time for their creating. Simpler = better
Instead of this "add-on thing", I think that installer really needs to check if your version is the most updated. If not it proposes you to download newer installer and downloads it through browser (that's how MTA installer works). But I think it would be better not to download immediately but purpose to visit webpage where user can find list of changes, updated full installer and smaller hotfix for his version

[Drag0nflamez]

QUOTE (Alt @ Jan 12 2011, 17:02)

Still I think those tasks are pointless and doesn't cost time for their creating. Simpler = better Instead of this "add-on thing", I think that installer really needs to check if your version is the most updated. If not it proposes you to download newer installer and downloads it through browser (that's how MTA installer works). But I think it would be better not to download immediately but purpose to visit webpage where user can find list of changes, updated full installer and smaller hotfix for his version

The launcher should feature this too then With auto-updating via bittorrent (i know a bittorrent site with a couple of dedicated seedboxes) & FTP & HTTP) WITH seperate files so resuming would work out better (instead of an all new version which would probably be a waste of goddamn playing time)

[Alt]

I totally agree with yours last post

This post has been edited by Alt on Wednesday, Jan 12 2011, 21:16

[SteaVor]

I'd really like to have the installer take care of removing the read-only flag from all files because this would ease further modding of the game (installing unofficial mods or VC cars or whatever) as it would eliminate a frequent cause of mod installation issues - "make sure the file's not set to read-only" is a standard phrase if someone reports a problem modifying the game files, so getting this out of the way by having the installer take care of it automatically would be nice.

[Alt]

Thats not really problem if we use cmd with hidcon in NSIS cover
Try this! (place in folder where you want to remove read-only flags, it also works for sub-folders and even rrof.exe )
And another good thing that its not recognized as any kind of virus (I had this problems once). Enjoy!
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Recently I've re-uploaded LC SFX installer and src of it (with very minor change - removed $EXEPATH, instead if this using $EXEDIR everywhere).

This post has been edited by Alt on Thursday, Jan 13 2011, 13:20