You guys know what would be great? If you could pick and choose the exact mods you want with this tool, save and package your config into a .iro, then apply the mod with 7th heaven.
Here is the problem, if you use the Bootleg configuration as a .iro mod you barely can use any other mod without to overwrite important settings you actually want to have. As I said my model overhaul would overwrite any other model selection if it is on top. I don't create an exception for other models, when it is easier to place over mine a .iro mod with all available Cloud models.
The best solution I see is to let Bootleg configure some basic Bootleg.iro mods and to let it sort the load order in 7th Heaven. Also it would be wise to make the setting first in Bootleg and after this the Download of the mods will start depending on the selection.
Yes and the first thing is to decide in which direction the project should go. Actually I should have started this discussion earlier.
There had to be an alternative over time, it is a consequence for no new updates when it comes to bootleg.
This makes things only complicated. Why design a new car with an old engine at first, when you have a new engine already in front of you? Sure implementing 7th H. in Bootleg and making the necessary .iro mods will be much of work, but doing it afterwards will be a lot more work, because then you try to merge the old engine with the new one.
Here is an example:
Bootleg and 7th Heaven can co-exist, due how both work. So a user will bootleg his FF7 installation (30gigs to have all files), but he wants a certain difficulty mod which only is available as a 7th Heaven mod. He will try 7.H. for it and get used to it. While the new Bootleg might be able to update mods more freely, he will use 7.H. to update mods, because it's faster to test them out. Anyway after a while he wonders why he has so less disk space and he will see that his FF7 installation use 49GBytes, because he use now many .iro mods which do cover the whole game plus the bootleg installation, which is not even actively used anymore. What has pushed up the space use? Because he wanted to restore some settings in 7.H. he has used in his Bootleg installation, he has some mods twice and of course unnecessary moded files and here back ups.
This is a bit drastically, but it shows that it isn't userfriendly to have two mod installer. But the concept of a mod manger is to be userfriendly, otherwise it's a failure. I don't want to say updating Bootleg is entirely wrong, many former Bootleg user will use it.
Well it's up to you, if you guys would hear on my advice and built Bootleg around on 7th Heaven or if you really want to deal with this old 'Behemoth'. I simply don't want that people are working hard on something and in the end they realize that the work was for nothing or had to be done differently.
but the community will decide what they want.