Canonical way of registering additional scripts to core mod?

[Oktokolo]

I work on a mod to TDM itself. It is meant to affect all missions and needs a script to execute before the difficulty selection screen (preferred) or at actual mission start (good enough).

So is there a canonical way to get my script executed for every map or do i have to search for a rarely updated script in TDM's pk4s and infect it with my code?

[nbohr1more]

To my understanding, you would use the "script/tdm_custom_scripts.script" parent script to define overarching behaviors. This inherits from tdm_main.script . If you cannot use the tdm_custom_scripts.script file to override in a satisfactory way, you may need to do what the wiki advises against and include a modified tdm_main.script in your mod pack.

https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Scripting_basics

Not that I'm particularly any kind of expert in this topic. Just my thoughts based on our documentation and the few scripting adventures I've done.

 

[Oktokolo]

3 hours ago, nbohr1more said:

To my understanding, you would use the "script/tdm_custom_scripts.script" parent script to define overarching behaviors. This inherits from tdm_main.script . If you cannot use the tdm_custom_scripts.script file to override in a satisfactory way, you may need to do what the wiki advises against and include a modified tdm_main.script in your mod pack.

Nah, can't override tdm_custom_scripts.script as the comment inside it explicitly states that it is meant to be overridden by FMs - which would then disable my mod.

[stgatilov]

I think tdm_user_addons.script was added specifically for this, although the problem of having several mods at once is sort-of unsolved...

[Oktokolo]

1 hour ago, stgatilov said:

I think tdm_user_addons.script was added specifically for this, although the problem of having several mods at once is sort-of unsolved...

It isn't mentioned in the wiki, but looks like the perfect place to put the mod manager initialization code, which then should include all files matching the glob pattern "mods/*/script/init.script".

Is it possible to include scripts like that and is there a way to run a function right after it got defined in a freshly included script?

[stgatilov]

The main thing i that function user_addon_init is called by every FM at start, and you can override this whole file.
So you can include other script files and call their functions.

However, you cannot change the time when this function is called.

[Oktokolo]

Running at map start is good enough for now.

Looks like i have to package a mod for each of my probably six combinations of functionality though as there can be only one mod overriding that script and i definitely don't want to require users to edit the script file for mod management... Well, still feasible, so i probably do that.