Optimized Loading & SR2MM Compatibility about star-ruler-2-mod-ce

[Skeletonxf]

Thanks for the summary.

My current setup is perhaps a little odd due to using the open source SR2 setup, in that I have
~/Documents/Games/StarRuler2Source/mods/ce as the in progress version of my mod, where Star Ruler 2 scans the files, but this is not a git repository (as ~/Documents/Games/StarRuler2Source is a git repository and git doesn't like nested repositories) and then once I have something that's not crashing or incomplete I copypaste ~/Documents/Games/StarRuler2Source/mods/ce/* into ~/Documents/Games/star-ruler-2-mod-ce for committing.

After thinking about it for a moment I probably should take this as an opportunity to refactor the file structure as copypasting was introducing quite a bit of friction for each change.

I wasn't aware that there was a star ruler 2 discord, where is the invite link for it?

[Skeletonxf]

I have an interesting problem with the symlink. When Star Ruler 2 loads up it sees the files inside the symlink with their original filepath, and isAccessible(const std::string& filename) in bind_datafile.cpp is programmed to reject loading or saving files outside the star ruler 2 folder. I could make the function always return true but I'd have to recompile the game as its a C++ file and I'm not sure what side effects disabling this might cause.

Have all of you only been using this file structure on Windows?

[DaloLorn]

We have, yes... though this Stack Overflow answer might be applicable.

Do tell what commands end up working, so I can include Linux instructions in the various guides.

Edit: I've actually had to use this for an unrelated task right now, so I can now specify the required command for the paths you've provided so far:

sudo mount --bind ~/Documents/Games/star-ruler-2-mod-ce/FOLDERNAME ~/Documents/Games/StarRuler2Source/mods/ce

Where FOLDERNAME is the name of the subfolder you've placed your mod data into. (Both origin and destination folders will have to exist, and the destination folder will probably have to be empty.)

[Skeletonxf]

Gotcha, that answer lead me to the solution

I had to do exactly that command you edited in that I didn't see till I fixed it myself 😆

For some reason Star Ruler 2 converts symlinks to their original paths, but a junction point works

As a side note, if you mess up and pick the wrong source or target the first time like I did, you can undo the junction with umount

[Skeletonxf]

A good cross distro solution is to add a line to your root crontab

sudo crontab -e opens the crontab

Add in
@reboot mount --bind /home/skeletonxf/Documents/Games/star-ruler-2-mod-ce/colonisation-expansion/ /home/skeletonxf/Documents/Games/StarRuler2-Source/mods/ce/ (no sudo is used because this runs as root anyway)

If you get prompted to choose an editor pick nano and if that isn't available pick whatever isn't vim.

[DaloLorn]

Looks done to me.