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Before this change, Descent 3 would look for all of its game data files in a single directory. This change allows users to spread out Descent 3’s game data over multiple directories. Building Descent 3 produces multiple files that can be freely redistributed (Descent3, d3-linux.hog, online/Direct TCP~IP.d3c, etc.). Running Descent 3 requires those files and several additional files that cannot be freely redistributed. Before this change, the files that were redistributable had to be in the same directory as the files that were not redistributable. This change makes it so that they can be in separate directories. The main motivation behind this change is to allow people to package Descent 3 for Linux in a reasonable manner. For the most part, binary packages for Descent 3 will contain all of the freely redistributable components. Package managers will copy those components into system directories that are owned by root and that users probably shouldn’t edit manually. Users will then create a new directory and copy the game data from their copy of Descent 3 into that new directory. Users will then be able to run: Descent3 -setdir <path-to-proprietary-files> -additionaldir <path-to-open-source-files> The -additionaldir option can also be used to support more complicated scenarios. For example, if the user is using Debian’s game-data-packager [1], then they would do something like this: Descent3 -setdir <path-to-writable-directory> -additionaldir <path-to-gdp-directory> -additionaldir <path-to-open-source-files> The -additionaldir option can also be used to load a mod that replaces .hog files: Descent3 -setdir <path-to-base-game-data> -additionaldir <path-to-mod-files> [1]: <https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3/issues/373#issuecomment-2120330650> |
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