Starlaunch is a complete replacement for the current starmade-starter. It allows you to have multiple starmade installations all managed and launched by starlaunch. Starlaunch will register new starmade related file extenions. Newly registered extensions include:
- *.sment - the current starmade blueprint file. this will now be opened by starlaunch and automatically added to your starmade installs, rather than having to use the starmade catalog manager. adding a details.txt file to your blueprints before packaging them into .sment files will make starlaunch display the contents of the file when it is installed with starlaunch.
- *.smmod - This is a new extension introduced by StarLaunch. this is a method of easily installing and distributing mods, UI rethemes and more.
- *.slskin - starlaunch will be completly skinnable, everything can be changed. This allows for factions to have launchers custom to them. We might do several themes for as default. instructions on how to create this file will be included in the help section of the program and either on a webpage or here when the format is completed
- *.smbkup - These are the backups generated by starlaunch of itself/starmade installs. Opening this file will restore the backup.
rather than just the news feed, starlaunch will show the news, official starmade twitter stream and any current twitch streams currently live.
This is the current design plan for starlaunch's main screen.
Alot more is planned for this, but many are unconfirmed/undone as yet, so I wont get hopes up.
Requirements -
Windows vista or higher (xp is not supported)
.NET 4.5
The default skin(s) are being created by crusade. we should have the first version out soon with the basic features done. This project will grow and gain many more features as time passes.
Please read the whole thread, I will post updates there rather than they are here.
Thats all there is to show at the moment. Suggestions are welcome. anything that is possible will be added to the suggestion list.
HAVE A TESTBUILD!
It has some features turned off because they are incomplete. Here is a list of things that work
- Creation of installations
- Updating multiple installations
- Automatically downloading the latest version allowing you to update instantly as soon as you are ready
- Sets the background to a random screenshot from the installation that you selected
- Shows the news feed
- Blueprint management
- Skins
Download here
Requires .NET 4.5
Windows Vista or better (no linux jokes :p)
Once installed, it will automatically download the latest version of star-made. Please wait until this is completed before creating an installation. To add an existing installation, add the starmade folder to the dir at C:\starmade\starlaunch\installs and rename the folder to the desired name of the installation. This will be automated in the next release, forgot to do it for this one :/
Have fun, and post bugs you find here
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