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losthorizon: I managed to compress this into a 798mb 7zip self-extracting archive which will JUST about fit on a single CDR!
To save space, go into every mod directory that you copied the Blood install into and delete game.gog. The only copy of this file that you'll need is in the \CDMount directory, so every other instance of it can go. This alone saves about 2.5gb uncompressed!

This helps, thanks!
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McTecman: I'm looking at making an actual installer (during the installation it would look into the registry to see where you installed the GoG OUWBlood and/or ask you to point at your Blood install) for the 1.0 release which would eliminate a lot of the confusion, but that will take some time to learn/write. I'd also keep a normal .zip version for people who like to do things manually.

This would help a lot as well. While I don't mind doing things myself, a nice easy install would be perfect for putting on disk. Looking forward to any enhancements/updates on this. :-)
Post edited May 19, 2010 by Ashkc88
If you are a little short of hard disk space, I presume you only need to copy the original Blood folder into the folder of the mod you are playing.
Its a shame - Haven't seen McTecman post in here in quite some time. But I'm sure he's busy. Maybe we'll see him on here after awhile.
I would also like to know if there is a way to get the CD music when playing a single map. The music plays fine when I launch the main game from the mod launcher, but you just get the sound effects in the individual maps and levels,,even the levels for the main game.
And I KNOW I installed it right and yes, the gog game file is in the CD Folder.
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morhlis: Its a shame - Haven't seen McTecman post in here in quite some time. But I'm sure he's busy. Maybe we'll see him on here after awhile.

Testing out various installer packages. Getting them to install something is very easy, getting them to prompt for the user to point to a folder with existing files, copy certain ones from that folder a dozen times, THEN resume the install is turning out to be a nightmare. I know it's doable in some scripting solutions, but it's not easy to learn that from nothing.
dudalb - Yeah, pretty much. Hell, if you don't plan on playing the mods, you can pretty much delete all of the folders within /Games/ except Blood, CDMount, GZDoom-Blood and zmbv (or Video Codec if you've upgraded to Dosbox 7.4. If you don't care about cutscenes you can also nuke game.gog in CDMount (if you've followed the instructions, it should be just there). All the Launcher will do when you attempt to run them is boot up Dosbox, and it'll just close when the files don't exist.
I'm not sure how the hell to make the music play with a single map (custom or official), since .ini files dictate which track plays when. Okay, that's partially a lie - .def files also enable music to play for custom levels. Still looking into it. A partial solution would be to load a dummy file with a randomly selected music track, but I need to a) test if this works for official maps and b) see how level transitions work when you beat the selected level.
tl;dr: Derp.
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McTecman: tl;dr: Derp.

Well its great to know you're still around! Sorry its being such a bitch to get working. But this launcher is one of the best things to happen to Blood in a long time. So I can wait as long as I need to!
This is fantastic, So much Blood and so much fun. More gaming here than i know what to do with. Would love to see the same done to other classic pc games.
Installer (the rough outline, needs polish) is up and running. The good news is that it makes installing the package easy: Show where Blood is, show where you want the Launcher installed, press button, wait a bunch. The bad news is that the file size will go up by about 300 megs or so. I'll still put up the latest manual install package, tho, once I'm done - that one should go up only by 50 megs or so.
Bloody Pulp Fiction texture issues have also been fixed. Please, if you locate any oddities or bugs, let me know while I can still fix them BEFORE cooking the final installer file.
edit: Oh, almost forgot. Dosbox 0.74, YANG 0.84.
Post edited May 26, 2010 by McTecman
Anymore updates on the horizon?
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McTecman: Installer (the rough outline, needs polish) is up and running. The good news is that it makes installing the package easy: Show where Blood is, show where you want the Launcher installed, press button, wait a bunch. The bad news is that the file size will go up by about 300 megs or so. I'll still put up the latest manual install package, tho, once I'm done - that one should go up only by 50 megs or so.
Bloody Pulp Fiction texture issues have also been fixed. Please, if you locate any oddities or bugs, let me know while I can still fix them BEFORE cooking the final installer file.
edit: Oh, almost forgot. Dosbox 0.74, YANG 0.84.

I had a question about the launcher. Does the renderer setting (direct3d, surface etc.) make a noticable difference in performance? I have a seven year old alienware 3.2ghz hyperthreaded with 2gigs of RAM and a radeon x1950 and I can only run it at 320x240 without hiccups(default launcher/DOSBOX settings).
Post edited June 10, 2010 by jcdenton11
Hi
just a quick suggestion, how about in the map window an additional "Random Map" button and a difficulty selection i think monster health changes at diff levels
How do I get the patches working? I don't know where to copy all of the files to.
Can anyone help me with this? I have no idea how to get the patches working.
Just copy the files over.
Post edited July 25, 2010 by Ashkc88
Look, I have no idea how to go about this. Every time I click on the patch, it brings up winrar, so I extract the files into games/blood and nothing happens. I have no idea how to do this, and I can't understand what you mean by copy the files over. More specifically, I'm really just trying to fix the custom map selector, but when I extract the files from the .94 patch, all it contains is a broken version of the launcher and a text file claiming the patch fixes the map selector. I'm computer retarded. I just need some step by step instructions on how to do this(click this, then click this, copy this to this, etc.).
Post edited July 25, 2010 by HimmlerHimself