Suggestion: BG1 Music Import

[Salk]

Hello! I am one of the people that think that music in BG1 is far superior to the sequel's and I think it would be nice to spare the user from having to import manually the BG1 Music folder under BG2.

 

I know it's not a great deal but lots of people, I believe, don't even know that this is possible and are stuck playing TuTu with BG2 Music. Making it automatic in TuTu Tweaks would be welcome.

 

I believe then that such an option would be handy:

 

"BG1 Music in TuTu ?"

 

Not to mention it'd be a joke for you to implement it. Cheers!

[SimDing0]

If we could do it, we'd have done it in Tutufix. WeiDU doesn't copy subdirectories. Or something. I dunno.

[the bigg]

If we could do it, we'd have done it in Tutufix. WeiDU doesn't copy subdirectories. Or something. I dunno.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

You can't do that via weidu anyway, since you can't copy the files from a directory outside your own (EG from BG1 to BG2). However, you can extract the relevant path from the file configuration, and write a .bat program ro handle the copying.

 

Assuming you have already read %bg1% variable, you'd launch the bg1music.bat file with the command

 

AT_EXIT ~bg1music.bat "%bg1%"~

 

bg1music would be something like

@echo off

rem make backups of bg2 music
mkdir music_backup
xcopy /e music music_backup

rem cd to bg2's music dir
cd music

rem delete all files and subdirectories recursively (/s), without asking for confirmation (/q)
del * /s /q

rem copy all files and subdirectories, including the empty ones, from bg1/music to bg2/music
xcopy /e "%1\music" music

 

Windows will automatically turn %1 to the second parameter from the command line (in this case, %bg1%). Note: I said second parameter on purpose

 

If this doesn't work, you can always revert to having WeiDU edit the .bat at install time

 

The following rewritten for Mac support (I hope, but Mac's use bash like Unixes )

@echo off

# make backups of bg2 music
md music_backup
cp -r music music_backup

# cd to bg2's music dir
cd music

# delete all files and subdirectories recursively, without asking for confirmation 
rm -r *

# copy all files and subdirectories, including the empty ones, from bg1/music to bg2/music
copy -r "$1\music" music

[Salk]

Thanks for the suggestion, the_bigg! Cheers!

[NiGHTMARE]

Instead of making a backup folder, copying the files and then deleting them, why not simply "rename" the directory? IIRC you couldn't do that in plain DOS, but the Windows command line supports it. Alternatively, you could use the "move" command.

[the bigg]

Instead of making a backup folder, copying the files and then deleting them, why not simply "rename" the directory? IIRC you couldn't do that in plain DOS, but the Windows command line supports it.  Alternatively, you could use the "move" command.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Didn't realize that...

I've been working 3 years in DOS/Win3.11 (from 95 to 98), so I have yet to recover...

 

Here is updated scripts (minus the comments):

 

DOS:

rem install
@echo off
move music music_backup
xcopy /e "%1\music" music

rem uninstall
@echo off
del music /s /q
move music_backup music

 

UNIX, Linux, Mac:

#install
@echo off
mv music music_backup
cp -r "$1\music" music

#uninstall
@echo off
rm -r music
mv music_backup music

[Grim Squeaker]

Shouldn't this be an optional part of the Tutu install in the first place? Because it that was done, all it would need would be the BG1 directory that the user entered at the start of the install.

[Salk]

I actually proposed this same idea in the PPG TuTu Forum first but I didn't get an answer there so I thought to see if it'd get a chance as TuTu tweak...I didn't actually ever think it could be hard to implement...