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First, good job. I've been thinking about doing something like this and it just saves me time. I appreciate that.
Second, there's a few things that would be helpful:
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Second, there's a few things that would be helpful:
- How to build from source (I've loaded your project in VSCode, not sure how to build)
- Allow a config file (yes I can add it to a make file or similar, but that makes sharing things like the RPGMaker directory every project is using a copy and paste thing, rather than include a base config file.)
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I will create some more detailed docs about how to build from source but for now just check the GitHub Actions workflow I created:
As for the config file, what exactly do you want to configure? Only thing that comes to mind is using a config file instead of passing CLI arguments to the tool. I recommend
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. You basically just create a build directory, configure cmake with source and build output path and then just build the project. I also used VS Code when I started creating the project but have moved on to CLion. Check the VS Code docs for getting a C/C++ dev environment going:
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.As for the config file, what exactly do you want to configure? Only thing that comes to mind is using a config file instead of passing CLI arguments to the tool. I recommend
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So I figured out CMake in VSCode finally. Thank you very much.
What comes to mind in terms of configuring, is things like the RPGMaker Directory/Directories (it might be nice to be able to specify both version and have the tool use the right one, or pass a switch to tell it which one to use.
Platforms is another thing that comes to mind.
Although I realized, there's a reasonably way to just bring in the options for all my projects through bash.
If I have a bash script with my common options:
Bash:
#!/bin/bash
packer_options+=("--platforms" "linux,win")
packer_options+=("--rpgmaker" "${rpgmaker_tools}/RPG Maker MV")
packer_options+=("--cache" "--hardlinks")
packer_options+=("--threads" "8")
Bash:
#!/bin/bash
rpgmaker_tools="<MY TOOLS DIRECTORY>"
packer_options=()
source "${rpgmaker_tools}/etc/packer_options_mv.bash"
packer_options+=("--encryptAudio" "--encryptImages" "--encryptionKey" "MYKEY")
packer_options+=("--input" "./<PROJECT_DIRECTORY>")
packer_options+=("--output" "<OUTPUT DIRECTORY>")
packer="${rpgmaker_tools}/bin/RPGMPacker"
"${packer}" "${packer_options[@]}"Two more things:
- You copy the save directory to the output, rpgmaker mv doesn't do that.
- In main.cpp line 287, you didn't initialize succeeded and failed values to 0. You need to do that, otherwise you may get a message at the end saying there are failures, with no indication as to what failed.
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Oh, and about using GitHub issues, I'd love to, but that might expose personally identifiable information which I'd rather keep anonymous. I need to look into getting another (anonymous) account.
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Save directory in the project folder? So at
/save? Curious how it even ended up there but I can make an exception for it.
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Builds take about 1/10th the time. Seriously this is good work. I just need power to use it again.
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Found one issue, you're updating of the system.json may not work if there's an extra linefeed or something else.
Proper fix is the parse the json and update it.
At the same time, writing json files without spaces can save 40+MB for games, so I added a compress json function.
Here's a patch based on commit 8ee70a85dd
It does take more time to create the RPGMaker directories (1.5 s instead of 0.5 on my machine) so you might want to make compressing the json files optional. That said it seriously simplifies your code for updating system.json.
Found one issue, you're updating of the system.json may not work if there's an extra linefeed or something else.
Proper fix is the parse the json and update it.
At the same time, writing json files without spaces can save 40+MB for games, so I added a compress json function.
Here's a patch based on commit 8ee70a85dd
It does take more time to create the RPGMaker directories (1.5 s instead of 0.5 on my machine) so you might want to make compressing the json files optional. That said it seriously simplifies your code for updating system.json.
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Thanks for the contribution.
The main problem I have with your patch is the use of another json library. The tool already uses
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for json parsing and adding another one is kinda overkill. What I ended up doing was simply searching for the closing bracket instead of assuming it's always at filelength-1:
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I thought about adding JSON minifier originally but did not do so because RPG Maker already saves the json files in a somewhat minified version. It is not 100% minified but it works. Maybe I'll add something like this later on but not at the moment.
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I tried using the library you had, but the data structure it built was immutable, so I had to bring in something else. (This actually took a while for me since I had to learn how CPM works with Cmake, and I'm still scratching my head as to why I had to explicitly define the library I added for the include directory, when the others appear to be added implicitly.) I thought that might be a sticking point.
The problem with just looking for the closing brace is, if those items are defined (which happens sometimes when bringing in a game that already exists) then there will be two copies making the JSON invalid.
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Oh about the minified JSON, I typically see a size reduction of 20+ MB over the original from RPGMaker MV. Given that the games I works with are about 500 MB once the resources are compressed properly or removed if not needed, that's actually a pretty significant chunk of space to get back.
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