How To Load Several Addons Simultaneously

[Begine9]

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How To Load Several Addons Simultaneously - for those who hate sifting through menus

Hey! Do you want to play with several addons at the same time? Then surely you aren't a big fan of having to go through the addon menu, loading your addons one at a time, every single time you want to play. It's pretty exhausting, if you ask me. Luckily, there is a way to load all your addons at once. In fact, there's 3 of them!

Here are the methods, one by one:

Note: This guide will be using Ring Racers as an example, however the 2nd and 3rd methods should also work on SRB2 and...

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[Aaron0000]

Some extra nuggets of information for this guide that may be good to include;

1. You can make a cfg file that activates other cfg files instead of plopping everything into one file. I've got an addons.cfg rigged to exec chars.cfg, maps.cfg, etc for organization.
2. You don't necessarily have to have addfile for every single file. As long as they're properly spaced out you can have addfile followed by multiple addons. "addfile addon1.pk3 addon2.wad addon3.pk3" and so on works, but it seems to stop working properly a bit after 1,000 characters (text kind, not addon kind.)
3. I used to use auto-exec-on-game-launch bat files in the past for my own servers, but something about it was causing desync issues or something of that nature with other players. Wouldn't recommend using it for online purposes.
   

 

[Benji]

Here is a weird one that I don't think anyone has talked about. There is a cool software called LauncherBlast2 that makes making addon packs so much easier.

[Open Assets] - LauncherBlast2 reBoot

The current version is: reBoot-1.4 Hello sonic fans, I appear out of nowhere to present to you, yet another SRB2 launcher. This time, it's LauncherBlast2 again- but wait.. that's right! it's a reBoot (i'm sorry for the awful pun i promise...

mb.srb2.org

You just need some set up of the software for first launch, add mods via the addon list, and then finally go to the play button and click the arrow. There will be a button that allows you to export your configs as a batch file. You can remove the extras and use it for either launching the game directly or copying the launch parameters to your Steam launch options. This isn't even mentioning the organization features that can help with mod order and such.