mod zip files should not require a directory with same name

[fabio]

Currently zip mods are required to be installed in a subdirectory inside mods with the same mod name, e.g.: mods/public/public.zip .

It would be nice if the zip could be stay directly inside the mods dir, e.g.: mods/public.zip . So no need for users to create the directory, just put the zip in the mods dir.

No change for uncompressed (no zip) mods.

[leper]

How would this work with the update.zip files the PPA uses?

The game just loads all files in a mod folder and all files in any zip at the place where that zip is.

So

foo/foo.zip
    +bar
    +baz
foo/update1.zip
    +bla
foo/testfile

is the same as

foo/bar
foo/baz
foo/bla
foo/testfile

(ignoring things like different priorities of files, and overwriting/removing them).

The real issue with the whole thing is that users still need to copy the mod zip to that place, I plan to fix this by distributing mods as somemod.pyromod files that would just be moved/copied to the correct location by the engine (thus removing the need for users fiddling with those paths manually).

[fabio]

The game should just get instructed that a zip file should act as a dir, so that

mods/foo.zip
mods/foo/bar

is equivalent to

mods/foo/(foo.zip content)
mods/too/bar

Alternatively the zip should also keep the foo dir internally. No idea how that could be done, but it doesn't sound impossible.

I agree about the mod distributor, but not everyone could use it (non free or developing mods).

[leper]

Not distributor. Just functionality in the engine that installs the mod in the correct place. Keeping the dir internally might work, but then you likely have the issue of having n zip files in there.

And just installing the file in the right place makes this a non-issue IMO.