[RD] Wargame Mod Installer

[Vasto]

Hello everybody,

I decided to make here a new topic for the Wargame Mod Installer since the old modding section is not visited anymore, and some important updates could be missed.

About this software:
The Wargame Mod Installer allows an easy, automated and safe distribution of moded files. Besides some simple features like a copy-pasting files it provides also a more specialized functionality, like a replacing certain content files stored inside the game's .dat files. This feature is probable especially valuable for all texture moders, since the distribution of premade .dat files with moded textures is not an easy task, as these texture storing .dat files are really weighty (even up to 3.6 GB). Because the installer provide a way to replace a desired portion of .dat file, there is no need to deploy whole .dat files, but just those content files which are going to be changed. The Installer features also some functionality which allows to keep compatibility between different texture mods, which otherwise is very hard to achieve. More information you can find in the manual.





Before you start, I highly recommend to read the manual, or at least skip to the Quick Start section of it.

Download the Wargame Mod Installer v1.0.0.35

Manual

Source code


Important:
The Wargame Mod Installer requires the .NET Framework 4.5 to run.

The Wargame Mod Installer is released under the GNU GPL license

I also want to thanks enohka for his incredible work on making this game modable and all other people involved in the process.

[Vasto]

Update 1.0.0.13:

This version adds a support for splitting installation into components which are selectable to install by the user. So basically, now is possible to do things like this:



More to read in the manual.

[The W:AB Noob]

Yay! The re-texture community thanks you.

[Darkmil]

Update 1.0.0.13:

This version adds a support for splitting installation into components which are selectable to install by the user. So basically, now is possible to do things like this:



More to read in the manual.

AWESOME !!!!

[londonsmee]

Now that looks cool will be looking into that. Well played

ROOOOOOcking installer mate, thanks for the hard work. Changed my RD skins to it.

[RaduM]

Thank you for putting in the effort, Vasto. This tool makes installing mods a snap.

[Vasto]

Update 1.0.0.14

Some bug fixes related the CopyModFile and CopyGameFile commands.

[londonsmee]

nice one :}

[Vasto]

Update 1.0.0.15

Added a command allowing to alter the dictionry file (.dic) entries.

Hopefully this will allow the name changing mods to be easily reinstalled after each update, since the command identifies entries to modify basing on their hash values. Those seem to not change between updates, so now instead of tedious reapplying names by hand with each patch, it should be just possible to update the path of patched file and easily reapply all custom values with the installer.




Detailed description and usage of the new command is availalbe in the manual.


And of course, big credits to enohka for the .dic files reading/writing code.

[COMThing]

Hey, is there anything other than Net Framework 4.5 required to run the installer?
It has been a while since I last updated my skin pack and the installer just won't start, even for downloaded packs. As far as I'm aware my computer hasn't changed it's configuration since I last updated my pack, my anti virus (Norton) doesn't say anything and I have the skin pack excluded from being deleted/interupted. Reinstalling Net Framework doesn't help either