basic question on hakpaks

[jkk]

(Please presume here full understanding of all the obligatory disclaimers regarding all custom content, one's own responsibility, impossibility of guarantees, impossibility of support, and so forth.)

With that said, simple question; do directory structures matter at all in the override folder? Hopefully not, as some hakpaks imply, because if one could have a separate directory tree for each hak installed, it would make troubleshooting an order of magnitude easier. Just start removing haks one at a time until things work right again.

Potential problem I see: if all the files are in the same soup, at least none are duplicated in different directory trees with multiple versions. I can see where that would spell serious clockroach infestation.

[Epirote]

AFAIK, yes, you can put them in appropriately named folders. The game will use everything in override including subdirectories. I do that with TonyK's AI by the way. Works like a charm. ;)

[jkk]

Eifkharisto, Pyrrhus. Do you think it often causes problems when the same filename is duplicated in different subdirectories of the override directory?

If TonyK's AI is the one that gets the characters to switch weapons at designated times, and use sensible spellcasting, etc., I definitely owe him a beer someday.

[Epirote]

Yeap, that's him. :cool: I'm not sure what you are asking there:confused:, but I don't see any problems from that other than maybe redundant. I'm not sure why the same file needs to be all over the place, in multiple copies of itself, in the first place. :confused:

Incidentally, TonyK's is one override that you have to make the folder yourself. I've run it both with all in override and all files in special subfolder of override. Works both well for me. ;)

[kgambit]

Do you think it often causes problems when the same filename is duplicated in different subdirectories of the override directory?

Yes. That's why you see a number of hakpak consolidations for various PWs.

[jkk]

Yeap, that's him. :cool: I'm not sure what you are asking there:confused:, but I don't see any problems from that other than maybe redundant. I'm not sure why the same file needs to be all over the place, in multiple copies of itself, in the first place. :confused:

Incidentally, TonyK's is one override that you have to make the folder yourself. I've run it both with all in override and all files in special subfolder of override. Works both well for me. ;)
Well, if it were the exact same file contents it wouldn't matter. But suppose two different haks, in their own subdirectories, modified the same file differently, as Kgambit referred to. That's the condition I was imagining.

In any event, the directories are the clear winner even if they do bring on a conflict, because they allow easy subtraction of one hak at a time until things start working again. No way would I go through 300 files glancing at a list to see which to delete; faster to delete the whole thing and add all but one back.