RFC regarding the non-Gold Pack installer
Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 4:09 am
Since I'll be releasing a self-installing version of the Drakan Gold Pack Enhanced in about a week or so, I'd like to hear some feedback about certain features that we might or might not want to have in it.
Specifically:
Specifically:
- A license file (EULA). At the moment, there is none - but I'm a mechanic, not a lawyer. Should I just leave it out? I don't think copy-pasting the EULA from vanilla Drakan would work well (if at all).
- Link to the Level Editor. As of right now, the installer doesn't create one (but it does preset the editor paths to the correct locations). I figure that adding a link to it will just lead to inexperienced users accidentally breaking the level files; and those people who actually have an idea of what to do with it, should have little problem finding the Level Editor.exe on their own. Or, in other words - people who have trouble finding the .exe, probably shouldn't even be using the editor in the first place.
- More presets for dgVoodoo? Right now, there's only 1 preset for it (2x AA + 4x anisotropic) included; that looks OK (a considerable improvement over no AA at all), and the performance penalty is minimal; this should be playable even on low-end systems. But on better hardware, it's possible to run double the filtering without ever dipping below 60FPS due to GPU bottlenecking (and possibly even max filtering, on really good hardware). The graphical improvement beyond the default values isn't great, though, which makes me wonder if that's worth the extra complication.
- We could really use some form of a simple game launcher, which would provide a version checking capability (if not auto-updating), as well as links to relevant webpages for troubleshooting any problems. However, making something like that is considerably outside the scope of my abilities.