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Offline secret_pizza

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[SOLVED] data search path
« on: August 05, 2014, 11:30:31 pm »
hi! im on dual boot with arch and win7. i already have an instance of openxcom for win7 and now i'd like to be able to run it when i'm on linux. my qustion is that is there a way to do that without having to duplicate all the data by yanking it into my linux partition (namely to /usr/share/openxcom) and having the option to parse it a search path flag instead? something like "+set fs_homepath /path/to/game" for idtech#?

thx in advance

EDIT: settled with symlinks.
« Last Edit: August 06, 2014, 01:53:36 am by secret_pizza »

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Re: data search path
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2014, 12:14:01 am »
you can try:

openxcom -data datapath -user userpath

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Installing_(OpenXcom)

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Re: data search path
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2014, 12:57:45 am »
thank you for your quick reply! yea that worked. partially. it loads the retail xcom data files, but it skips the data folder came with openxcom and which i overstocked with mods while on w7. is there a way to load it as well?
« Last Edit: August 06, 2014, 01:02:35 am by secret_pizza »

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Re: data search path
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2014, 01:06:12 am »
thank you for your quick reply! yea that worked. partially. it loads the retail xcom data files, but it skips the data folder came with openxcom and which i overstocked with mods while on w7. is there a way to load it as well?

Hmm.. Sounds like a reason for bug report: https://openxcom.org/bugs/openxcom/issues/open

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Re: data search path
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2014, 01:16:55 am »
why not use a symbolic link in /usr.../openxcom and your mods can be in your home iirc

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Re: data search path
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2014, 01:22:06 am »
well i was gonna eventually.
thanks!
« Last Edit: August 06, 2014, 01:54:15 am by secret_pizza »