molsmith opened this issue on Feb 12, 2008 ยท 122 posts
AntoniaTiger posted Wed, 13 February 2008 at 8:46 AM
I am not going to try to analyse what the V4.2 initialiser does. I'm holding off on installing it until I get a better explanation of just what the new features are. Earlier versions put a shortcut on the desktop which calls a .bat file which calls the executable with two command-line options, neither of which seems to be a directory. The first one looks to be the name of the subfolder ("Victoria 4") under "!DAZ" in which the script/pose files are put. The second is "V4". which doesn't seem to have an obvious significance in filenames or folder names. I surmise that there must be some hardwired pathnames buried in the program, relative to the !DAZ directory. The actual initialiser program runs in the same window as the batch file, and adding "pause" to the file lets you read the output reporting the files which are written. It looks very low tech, not that there is anything wrong with that. The V4.2 version, with the new approach to morphs, must be doing some different stuff. But what the initialiser is doing may not be horribly complicated. And how does it find the V4 CR2 What if I take a V4-with-some-morphs and save as a character, later buy a set of new V4 morphs, and want to use a couple with that character? I have some idea about how V3 works. I don't have the same confidence in how V4 works.