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How would it handle the example I posted here? http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/11392-published-game-wont-run/page__st__20#entry83033

 

It sounds like it would fail that scenario.

 

Is there a flag to turn selective file inclusion off/turn on the old behavior?

Nice update! Can we include C / C++ users with this? The theory would be that the program would scan the project file for source and header files used in it. Then it would scan those files for any model, texture and material files mentioned and include them.

Knocked it out of the park Josh 7.96 GB project folder reduced to a published size of 136 MB.

 

How ever, my project fails to run from the published folder.

 

It begins to load, then it freezes and says " Zombies stopped working"

 

Tested a different project, That project folder is 20+Gb of asstes and was reduced to 3.70 GB but has textures missing.

@DerRidda, this system would fail in that scenario.

 

CPP files are scanned, as well as Lua scripts.

 

A good way to check your game's output is to create a text file called "run.bat" and set its contents to this:

zombies
pause

 

Double-click the bat file and it will run your game and display the output. It will probably say something like "Failed to load file..." just before it ends.

I updated the player script now so it actually lists the files it is loading in the script. Should work now if you update the project.

are comments scanned aswell?

 

Or can we mark directories/files as 'always include' ?

 

For instance my gui has all the textures it uses in it's xml files, so it would be good to be able to say always include "gui/*"

thats very good, before my publish output was very big.

how is the code scanned?

 

I guess it will fail at things like

for i=1,10 do
   Model:Load("Models/Characters/char" .. tostring(i) .. ".mdl")
end

 

or else it would need to understand the code.

I guess it will fail at things like

for i=1,10 do
Model:Load("Models/Characters/char" .. tostring(i) .. ".mdl")
end

Similar in my inventory code for example. I guess it would be better to simply allow users to select folders that they don't want to export, so they can place all their currently unneeded textures there.

 

Also, why do you even keep files that you don't need in the project folder?

Something like below would do the trick. Not only does this give Leadwerks a unified way of detecing export folders, it also gives the programmers a way of creating dynamic variables without having to worry about missing export errors.

ExportInclude "Sounds/Player/Footsteps"

Just wondering is there a way to add other file types? Projects I work on use sqlite databases for some data saving for example. Is there a way to add some custom files that the publisher wont recognise?

@tjheldna - not currently, but I believe there is that we've by now demonstrated a need to somehow mark files as needed.

 

Preferable a non lua file you can add files/directories to in plain text format

because of much file duplicate i like to see a asset database

and in game i use a reference.

and in editor we can select the content we need, this put

a link in db.

:LoadFromDB("KeyName") unique key in database

then we can use a main database together also for a online asset store (also for free things)

but that means we need a asset manager app.

with this db the publish knows what it is used.

 

other idea is to make a asset template folder outside project folder

and all u need in game will copied to the project folder.

I don't buy that at all. If someone is capable of using a complicated "tagging" system, then surely they are able to just delete the files they don't want?