Originally Posted by
Kurisu Paifuaa
Any reference made in a table contained in a sub-directory of db. I guess you'd only see this looking at a pack file through PFM, which considers the game's entire directory structure. That path is implicit when you look at tables in DAVE. Have a look at DAVE's status window which shows the connected database...
So the tables unit_variants, variants, land_units or anything else you view in DAVE is contained within the game's primary database (db directory). By "db references", I mean column entries in those tables referring to external files... like your custom variant definition. There are also internal references, but here we're concerned only with your new definition file.