[Kazan]

it searches all mission foldiers top ace

[TopAce]

Wouldn't it be more logical to list only missions from the same mod?

[kasperl]

no, because sometimes when you only add ships and not change them, you can still play FS2 standard campaign missions.

that, and it goes for all files, otherwise each MOD would also require all the standard textures, making the switch mostly useless.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by kasperl
no, because sometimes when you only add ships and not change them, you can still play FS2 standard campaign missions.

that, and it goes for all files, otherwise each MOD would also require all the standard textures, making the switch mostly useless.

They are in VPs. I meant the files which are not packed.

[kasperl]

basicly, because if you want to combine stuff you still want to be able to put generic stuff in the main folder and mod specific things in the mod folders.

and for the HOTU version and the like, the stuff is outside of VP's, making it rather important that the main dir will be searched as well.

[Kazan]

no - it makes technical sense to do it the way we do it

without a mod the roots look like this

fs2path
CDDrive

with a mod they look like this

fs2path/modname
fs2path
CDDrive

[karajorma]

Kind of gets to the whole original point of this thread doesn't it?

One advantage of doing things this way is that if you want to add something like lightspeeds thrusters (at least before they were put into a vp) to all your campaigns you can do it easily by sticking them in the data folder.  

If only the -mod folder was checked you'd need a copy in every single mod folder.