[TOOL] Mod ID number generator

[Observe]

I have created a page that auto-obtains an ID number for your mod. The number given is used in your mod content.xml file.

Please let me know if this works or if you have other ideas. Hopefully this will serve the purpose for the time being.

Page is here.

[stk25]

Nice work, as far as I know ID's don't have to be numbers though, I've seen a few mods using letters and they worked fine. Maybe a convention should be made instead e.g. <authorname>-<mod initials>

[UniTrader]

i like to use the shortened Name of the Mod and use the same as Archive/Folder Name, because if the game doesnt find any content.xml it will fall back to this one it seems

[Observe]

Those are both good ideas. Probably people can just use their own naming convention and it'll work out fine in most cases.

[enenra]

The thing is that we eventually will need ID numbers anyway since we need to make sure no two mods use the same text id. This is not much of a problem now since there aren't that many but it's better to start early with this.

Observe, maybe you could add a notice for that to the generator? We'll have to skip some numbers so Egosoft has enough space to add their own text ids, thus I'd say we start with 1001 or something like that.

EDIT: There's apparently already the first problems: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 15#4217815

[Gazz]

Use modder's name and a short tag and you never have an issue?

Or would that be too easy? =)

[SxDerp]

Use modder's name and a short tag and you never have an issue?

Or would that be too easy? =)

The all-knowing Gazz, too much for our simple brains.