Post by Dutch Owen on Sept 8, 2019 16:30:09 GMT -5
Captains,
FSCAI Release 0.9.9 is now live. This release contains an important change to the way the configurations are stored and processed.
This change should not affect anyone unless you have modified the standard configuration files included in the FSCAI Installer.
If you haven't made any changes to the database through the UI, or manually to any of the Options, Teams, Eras or any other configuration files you can ignore this message but I recommend reading it to understand the new changes.
There is no longer a 'Config' folder included in the installer. Instead there are two: "Config_STD" and "Config_USER". Config_STD contains all the files the previous 'Config' folder had. Config_USER is empty except for a README.txt file. The purpose of Config_USER is to hold your local versions of files. From now on, when you update anything via the UI the updates will be written to Config_USER. Nothing should ever modify Config_STD except an install of an updated version!
After installing 0.9.9 you will have the two new folders and the old Config folder still there. If you haven't modified anything just delete the old Config folder if you want - or you can leave it it will be ignored.
If you have modified anything, copy the modified files to the new Config_USER folder. From here on out, you won't have to worry about it getting smashed by a new install. When FSCAI loads, it will update the contents of the STD version of weapons, vehicles, or simobject definitions with the files in USER. Any other files in USER will override the same file in STD, this includes Options.cfg, Eras.cfg, Externals,cfg, Formations.cfg, Combat.cfg, and any Team definition files referred to by Eras.cfg.
This will make your life much easier in the future when you modify FSCAI for your local purposes.
Dutch
FSCAI Release 0.9.9 is now live. This release contains an important change to the way the configurations are stored and processed.
This change should not affect anyone unless you have modified the standard configuration files included in the FSCAI Installer.
If you haven't made any changes to the database through the UI, or manually to any of the Options, Teams, Eras or any other configuration files you can ignore this message but I recommend reading it to understand the new changes.
There is no longer a 'Config' folder included in the installer. Instead there are two: "Config_STD" and "Config_USER". Config_STD contains all the files the previous 'Config' folder had. Config_USER is empty except for a README.txt file. The purpose of Config_USER is to hold your local versions of files. From now on, when you update anything via the UI the updates will be written to Config_USER. Nothing should ever modify Config_STD except an install of an updated version!
After installing 0.9.9 you will have the two new folders and the old Config folder still there. If you haven't modified anything just delete the old Config folder if you want - or you can leave it it will be ignored.
If you have modified anything, copy the modified files to the new Config_USER folder. From here on out, you won't have to worry about it getting smashed by a new install. When FSCAI loads, it will update the contents of the STD version of weapons, vehicles, or simobject definitions with the files in USER. Any other files in USER will override the same file in STD, this includes Options.cfg, Eras.cfg, Externals,cfg, Formations.cfg, Combat.cfg, and any Team definition files referred to by Eras.cfg.
This will make your life much easier in the future when you modify FSCAI for your local purposes.
Dutch