[topas]

Hello everyone,

I am creating my own multiplayer mission and I plan to publish it one day.

Besides legality issues (see https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=99407.0) I have a problem reusing files from other mods without copying them over to my mod folder.

I want to reuse skyboxes from blue planet mod.
I copy them over and they with in my mod. Nice, but

- they don't get updated, if there would be a hypothetical update and
- I like the idea much more to have a mod dependency (to blue planet) and then directly use their files.

Do far I just cannot add files by relative path into Fred, to tell it which background (skybox) to use.
Maybe I have to add folders to FREDs command line and then just name the files.

Has someone experiences with fire reuse between mod dependencies?

Brest wishes
Tobias

[Grizzly]

You can set up a mod dependency in Knossos.net. If you make a mod through there you'll have to do that anyway in order to specify which FSO build you're making your mission on.
That being said, feel free to just copy the skyboxes you need if you don´t want to use anything else. If you set up BP as a dependency you also end up with all the ships, gameplay, and what have you from BP which may not be what you want.

Especially wrt skyboxes, which almost never get updated, that's a lot of hassle.

[topas]

Yeah I use Knossos.NET for mod creation and I use very few and basic dependencies (Mainhalls and ship interior and such things plus MVP and build of course).

Pulling the whole BP in for just skyboxes is a lot of overhead.
I should just copy that until I want to use more things from BP.

Thanks!