2009-04-14, 06:34 AM
Quote: SoM likes to keep a centralized directory of all resources you might want to use in your game, then it draws from that to make your outputed runtime filetree (as opposed to you starting a new project filetree and copying what you want into it)
Does that about sum it up? Or that much at least...
Yes :)
If you play a game using the 'Test Map' or 'Preview Project' buttons, the game is run with SOM_DB.exe which looks for resources (Object, NPC models etc) in SoM's main file tree (located via a registry entry). If you play a game the standard way by launching GAME.EXE, it looks for resources in the 'output' game's file tree (located relative to GAME.EXE's position).
Quote: <confused>Um, yeah! Wait, ok I got the part where you do stuff with the program and... something happens....</confused>
No, no no!! I keep trying to tell you that something only happens when you DON'T do stuff with the program. Well... unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, but then you have to type upside down or read backwards and really, that's just more trouble than it's worth.