Fluffy Mod Manager v2.259 work in progress - 7Zip support and seamless mod preview loading
Added 2023-02-05 17:30:31 +0000 UTCNew Fluffy Manager (work in progress) release!
Download: https://fluffyquack.com/WIP/modmanager.zip (install by extracting the files over your mod manager install)
There are two big changes with this release:
- 7Zip support: Mods can now be distributed compressed as 7Zip archives. There's one important thing to note about this: 7Zip archives are compressed into solid archives by default, which means it's very slow to extract one individual file from them. This makes certain actions in the mod manager very slow (like slow loading of mod preview screenshots or slow remaking of the mod info cache). When distributing mods, I always recommend people create 7Zip and RAR archives as non-solid. (Note that WinRAR defaults archive creation to non-solid, so no action is required there.)
- Mod preview screenshots are now loaded in a separate thread. This means there's no longer any stutter or freeze as you highlight mods in the mod manager. This was especially noticeable with mod archives that were compressed as solid archives.
Since those two features required some pretty big code changes, I'm releasing this as a work-in-progress for now in case a bug managed to sneak through. If anyone spots any new bugs, let me know.
Oh, and the way the mod preview screenshots just snap into view without fading is a temporary change. I'm gonna rewrite that system so make them fade or move into view.
