5.5 Mod DH question

Actually no, I didn't hear anything about that, though I did see a TFE-X version of 0rion's mod on the server. Gaear thinks of everything. But I think you will find that merely means those mods are now available as native TFE-X modules, rather than old-syle ToEEFE mods that have to be converted. But unless Gaer has done some monumental editting of those that he hasn't mentioned, they are not 'compatible' with 5.5 - the only compatible stuff will be what is released in future as add-on packs. At the moment, 5.5 is the pinnacle. Installing older mods over it would be like installing patch 2, then installing patch 1 over it.

A pity the Atari forum is gone, or you could propose that idea over there, perhaps.

 

This.

There still seems to be some confusion over what exactly Agetian's ToEE Front End X is: it is, as the name suggests, a 'front end' utility that launches the game, among other things. What it is not is a 'mod.' Therefore, the Co8 'mod' and ToEE Front End are different things, even though they ship together in the latest modpack. Therefore, mods are not by definition 'compatible' or not with TFE-X, while they either are or aren't compatible with other mods depending on their contents. In the case of the newly repackaged TFE-X modules, they were simply put into the format that TFE-X prefers and is easiest for use.

TFE-X manages mods. Mods are the game elements themselves that we play through. So TFE-X can manage and process different mods, because it's simply activating and structuring their contents properly for play, while different mods cannot be played concurrently or merged, because their contents may cause conflict.

As applies to Orion et al, you cannot merge that mod with 5.5, for example, and expect anything but problems, because they are not compatible - they have files that will conflict in horrible ways. (Indeed, there is no way to merge them at this point because Orion's mod is a native TFE-X module, not an add-on pack. And we strongly discourage you from trying to do it yourselves.) You can, however, install Orion's mod and 5.5 as separate modules and let TFE-X manage them for you so that you can play one today and the other tomorrow or whatever you want without having to uninstall or reinstall anything.

So to recap: the fact that Orion's mod exists as a TFE-X ready module has no bearing on anything to do with the 5.5 module. They both exist as independant native TFE-X modules, but the fact that TFE-X can launch each of them does not speak to whether or not they are compatible with each other. Which they aren't.

 

Why must you torment me!? :angry:

There will no doubt be a CMF 5.5.1 when we've got enough bugs to make it worthwhile and I've fixed them.

Scuttled for now. I still think that would be great for evil parties but Sitra thought it was juvenile/in poor taste.