Solver Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Uploading mods as attachments sucks. Uploading mods to a third-party site where you have no control over it sucks. Writing your mods to floppy drives and mailing them to anyone who requests the mod is slightly retro. Therefore it's a good idea for this forum to integrate an upload/download system. People can upload their own files, and edit them later for updates and so on, anyone can easily download (also without having a forum account). I've set the system up, and it's available to test here or just by clicking the new Downloads link in the navigation bar at the top. Questions to You, The People, so that it may enter a working state. What categories of files do we initially want to have? What file types do you want to upload? Feel free to upload test stuff if you want, I'll just wipe everything after receiving some input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Ragulin Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Good idea. I pack my stuff up as .rar. How much mb do we get? My attachments bit says ~96mb, which seems very generous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaianDestiny Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Categories... Well if you're talking categories for mods, Kabill's categories are a good outline: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/9992-Calling-all-Modders-Producing-A-List-of-Active-Mods For file types, the basic image types obviously (png, jpg, etc.), archive files (zip, 7z, rar), text files (xml, lua, txt), and Microsoft Office files and pdfs. I think that covers the basics. The last one isn't as important as the first 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 I will reduce the attachment size to something more sane after this goes operational, I do not really wish to encourage large attachments. What is a good acceptable file size? 100 MB? Most mods are way below that, but XNT has a 600 MB core, which might anyway be an exception and too much for that system to handle (though I could arrange something else for the XNT folks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Any more input? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Ragulin Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Regarding file size, I'd say 100mb is more than adequate. I'd snap your hand off for 50mb, and I'd probably still only use half of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Caine Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I'll do some test uploads of vanilla and sD's CE-compliant version of Drone Strike tonight, to get a feel for it and get some feedback going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaianDestiny Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 How do you upload files? I'm going to upload the newest version of FTD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Click a category, and there should be an Add New File button at the bottom, similar to how you post a new thread. If there's not, I have configured something wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaianDestiny Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I don't see anything. Here's a screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 And now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaianDestiny Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Yup! Thanks for solving it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Let's blame this one on Max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaianDestiny Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I've uploaded two files, one in Geoscape and the other in UI/Graphics. Now it says they're in a moderation queue. So it seems the Mods/Admins will have to approve mods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Caine Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) Oi! Thanks to having to do other things on the forum, Drone Strike is going to have to wait until I get some sleep, as I'm too tired to focus properl on what I'm doing. EDIT: Just before I do that, I've gone into the batcave and I can't see on my panel any of sD's files awaiting my attention. Edited July 29, 2014 by Max_Caine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 The files appear directly as they are uploaded. You can delete them as a mod later, but I do not see a need for moderation of incoming files now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaianDestiny Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I can't view the mods I uploaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Somehow they still required approval. I will need to make a normal user account to test with, otherwise I keep missing some settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentelin Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) Heh I appreciate that you are willing to lend us a hand with hosting our mod (unless I understood wrong ? ).TD and I are getting annoyed by mediafire each day.Couple of times our mod was completely wiped or not fully "synchronized" and we had to re-upload whole package from scratch,also week ago mediafire desktop client was making dozen of copies of every update that was uploaded ....Not to mention that vet and potential players are overwhelmed by advertises and captcha.(This was already reported and in some cases people couldn't download mod if they used mozilla). Edited July 30, 2014 by Sentelin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Given the size of your mod, yes, my proposal would be for you to upload it directly to the server, and subsequently link to it in the Downloads section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabill Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Regarding file size, I'd say 100mb is more than adequate. I'd snap your hand off for 50mb, and I'd probably still only use half of that. Don't know if this is still an open discussion, but yeah, 100mb/mod seems fine in most cases. I think the only mods likely to struggle with that are mods adding lots of images (especially new aliens/unit sprites). For reference, I think the largest of my mods is ~30-40mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabill Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Sorry for double-post, but a question: I just tried uploading a file ~23mb and it said the file was too big to upload (after getting very far though, no less). Is the current limit lower than that? If not there might be a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solver Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 May have been a PHP limit, if so, it should now work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabill Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Sorted now, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max_Caine Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Right, I've just had a go at uploading the Drone Strike mod, both the vanilla and skaianDestinies CE port. Seems to work okay. One thing I would say is I spent about 5 minutes looking for an upload button on the main screen before I tried pressing one of the categories. Not immediately obvious what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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