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"The universal table converter" (Coming soon)

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Itchigo:
I was talking about the Sourceforge program Rascal found. I was excited at first (even though I had concerns), now I'm on the fence about it. My first intuition about this, is that it was an end run around the modding rules because the .diff was the same as a mod imo. Also since you're not technically posting the mod, but the .diff, it's not against the rules, technically. Also since the user is doing the modding it's also not technically against the rules. But the more I think about it posting the .diff is like posting the mod.

I wouldn't know about hacking, I'm not that good. :Whistle:

Shockman:

--- Quote from: faralos on January 03, 2014, 08:16:17 AM ---okay I am still lost on this thing
 how does one go about changing a table from one to another?
 the layout is still of the first table so anything going into it in theory won't work
 since the table is let's say a black knight and the diff is for firepower
so the diff file should only work with the table it is made for right?
I can't grasp how this works without insulting or ignoring the original builder also
and if anyone drops these into my pins they sure as hell better still give me credit for the initial build of said pin
 otherwise it is just another case of author ripoff

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Think of a .diff as a patch file (as .vbs .bat .exe. etc) That's basically all they are. It's an extension and can be any number of file types. Yes it could change one file to a completely different one, but the only logic in using it that way is to be tricky. In this case the file would be a .vpt and nothing more or less, but with an added inconvenience of having to apply it to a designated (another arbitrary, but designated) file.   

Itchigo:
After a lot of thought, I have decide not to use this. It's a cool tool, but I really don't see the difference between posting the diff file, and posting the mod directly. Yeah, I know, it doesn't have a .vpt on the end. So technically it isn't a mod. But it all reality, it IS the mod.

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