Anyway, back on-topic. I have introduced most of my friends to Spring, but one of the things that they and I have noticed is that it takes a lot of repetitive manual work to get maps, mods and such forth working, because you have to go to the UF, download the file, and usually manually install the file into your Spring directory. After seeing the Kernel Panic installer, I was inspired to make some 'package' installers for some of the more popular mods and map types. I have not seen anything like this done by anyone besides the aforementioned KP installer.
However I did notice that there was a topic on a community installer. This is partially in response to this as well.
The intended effect of these installer packages is to make it easier for new players to get into playing Spring, simply by downloading the installer and running it after installing Spring. It will also hopefully get rid of some of the annoying 'sry dling map' messages that new players make when you are trying to get a game running. And finally this should all improve the retention rate of new players and make Spring more popular in the long run.
The current version is 2.0, and is made with NSIS. The whole package is about 128 Mb.
Content
I have put the following files onto the installer:
- BA v5.5
RAI v0.555
Adamantine Mountain
Altored Divide
Cooper Hill
Comet Catcher Redux
Delta Siege Dry
Imperfect
Metalheck V2
Red Comet
Small Supreme Battlefield v2
Tangerine
Tropical
Victoria Crater
Some other packages I will do in the future:
- 'Novelty Maps' (Speedmetal, Greenfields, Speedball and their combined 1037476 or so variants)
EE with maps and RAI
A collection of 1v1 maps Sort of done with version 2.0
Please note however that the installer will have an annoying notice at the end of it to tell you that the software to make it is unregistered.
Any comments?