We should probably automatically unload broken mods

[darkestaxe]

I installed Improved Hand Obs mod incorrectly and the game crashed with a useful error, useful to any of us at least. Now most of us regulars here can solve these problems quick and easy with a text editor, I think it took me about 4 mins to just fix the mod but I could just as easily have disabled/deleted it, or worst case scenario I would have deleted my config file.

Let's pretend I'm not a geek and I don't know shit about x-com or programming.

"HAALLP! I just downloaded and got my files from steam and my xcom worked great. But I put a mod on and now it doesn't.    And every time I load the game it just has the same error.  . I deleted the game and re installed it and it's still happening."

I dunno Darkestaxe, did u delete ur config file, or the mod?

"Where's that? Will I have to start over with rifles?"

[myk002]

this is something on my todo list.

[Warboy1982]

i thought we did?

[SupSuper]

We used to... https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/commit/45137fcfdbf47ad04cc935bdadb3cda544219765

[myk002]

yeah, it's on my list to add this back in.

[myk002]

ok, done: https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/pull/1009

[Helmet_Hair]

I'm not sure I understand 100%, but when you download 1.0 now the catalogs and such is changed from the version I have installed right now? And all the mods up still works for the old version of the game, but not the new?

[myk002]

mods will still work regardless of when they were created (as long as they worked with the nightly version before this latest change).  All that has changed is that they go in a different spot on your hard drive.  They can now also have a metadata file that will show information about the mod in the openxcom ui, but it's completely optional.

[Phoenix7786]

I deleted the game and re installed it and it's still happening."

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<.<

Because I totally did didn't do that... and TOTALLY did didn't fix it by reconfigging myself on my old back-up copy of OpenXcom

[Helmet_Hair]

mods will still work regardless of when they were created (as long as they worked with the nightly version before this latest change).  All that has changed is that they go in a different spot on your hard drive.  They can now also have a metadata file that will show information about the mod in the openxcom ui, but it's completely optional.

Okay, I understand. Thanks!

[darkestaxe]

>.>

<.<

Because I totally did didn't do that... and TOTALLY did didn't fix it by reconfigging myself on my old back-up copy of OpenXcom

Haha! Who me?

But I wouldn't recommend sharing the config between old and new. New OXC has different config options and I made a mess of a config file by doing oldOXC -> newOXC -> oldOXC -> newOXC on it.

[Phoenix7786]

Oh yeah I just ran my old OpenXcom just to change the config to something that wouldn't crashi the program so I could launch the latest OpenXcom and restore my previous working settings.