[MODDING CAPABILITIES] Load a folder of rulesets

[Aldorn]

It's always difficult to ask for any development, as there are many request, and above all, job done by dev team is absolutely marvellous !

Anyway, it would be nice to have the possibility to load :
- either .rul files inside [Ruleset] folder (as for now)
- or any .rul files inside any subfolder of [Ruleset]

This would be interesting especially for huge mods. As an example, I decided to split my mod by section, and sometimes subsections, and I have around 60 ruleset files...

This way, a modder would have total liberty to organize his work. Subfolder could even include some optional features as zip archives, so that user would just have to extract wanted archives in current subfolder to activate them (and to remove, just have a look at archive to know which file to delete)

[Biggieboy]

I need this function too (i know its very old request)

In Ruleset folder not work the subfolder, but is good for modders, because its easier to combinate the mods and better organize. And if the other folders (example Language) work the subfolder, is the best solution

Thank you!

[Warboy1982]

uuhhhh... try using the nightlies? this feature has been in for... a long time

[Meridian]

uuhhhh... try using the nightlies? this feature has been in for... a long time

nope, only root directory and Ruleset directory are considered... other subfolders are (intentionally?) ignored... not sure if feature or a bug

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[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   mapping resources in: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   recursing into: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   recording ruleset: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/root_file.rul
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   recursing into: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/Subfolder1
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   ignoring non-resource file: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/Subfolder1/subfolder_file1.rul
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   recursing into: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/Subfolder2
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   ignoring non-resource file: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/Subfolder2/subfolder_file2a.rul
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   ignoring non-resource file: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/Subfolder2/subfolder_file2b.rul
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   ignoring non-resource file: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/Ruleset/root_file.rul
[18-08-2018_17-10-23] [VERB]   ignoring non-resource file: C:\Users\Meridian\Documents\OpenXcom\mods\MyMod/metadata.yml


[SupSuper]

nope, only root directory and Ruleset directory are considered... other subfolders are (intentionally?) ignored... not sure if feature or a bug

It (was) a feature, but seems nobody likes it, so I've fixed it. You can now put .rul files wherever you want in your mod (if you want them to be ignored, give them a different file extension).