File first?

[alpaca]

Well I experienced something weird today. It appears that some files are taken from the filesystem first even if they are in one of the pack files, I can definitely confirm that for export_triggers.lua

Please keep an eye open for this, it's a probable source of errors.

[Iaius Statius Laurentius]

Yes, way back when I noticed that the ui\portraits\(culturetype)\cards\(charactertype)\###.tga get loaded regardless of whether they're in packs or not, but the nearby ui\portraits\(culturetype)\info\(charactertype)\###.jpg will not get loaded.

It's also a matter of when the files were modified. After changing ui.pack, the tgas stopped working and would only work if I saved them again (thereby given them a more recent modified date).

It's odd.

[Ketzerfreund]

Using the date/time of latest file modification makes sense, in a way. Isn't that how patch.pack's contents replace the ones from the other packs? Simply by being the newer files?

[alpaca]

Yeah I noticed that the timestamp counts for the export_triggers as well. And no it isn't like that for the packs, it seems to be more complicated (or I just screwed). It still needs to be tested but for me sometimes changes worked and sometimes they didn't when I added them to an additional pack file, and I wasn't screwing with patch.pack at the time so I didn't change its timestamp.