phungus420
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I've uploaded LoR into sourceforge as an SVN; because the SVN is mainly a development tool, there will not be an easy installer, in fact the SVN is a little complex to set up. However if you want to update LoR to the most current version, the SVN is the way to go.
To use the SVN you must download and install tortoise SVN, found here:
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads
Once you have TortoiseSVN installed on your computer, here is how to set up LoR's SVN:
1)Somewhere on your computer create a folder where you want LoR's SVN repository to be (where you want it to store the files for the current SVN); and name that folder LoR.
2)Right click on this folder and select "SVN checkout...", a box will pop up for the SVN information. In the "URL of Repository" field put this:
https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoR/
3)Select OK, and the repository will begin downloading the latest SVN to the folder you selected.
4)Now unstall LoR if you have it installed, this ensures that there are no files left that can conflic with the new version. Once this is done, right click on your LoR SVN folder and in the Tortoise SVN options select "Export", it will want to know where to export it to, and that's your mods folder where LoR usually installs to when you use the installer. The latest SVN will then export to your mods folder and be playable by selecting it like any other mod.
5)When you update the SVN, remember to delete the LoR folder in your mods folder you are going to export to in order to get the most recent updates. This ensures that no old files are left over, which could cause conflicts. If you want to be really smooth, you can always use winmerge to merge in the recent updates, and then you wol't need to delete, and export the full mod with every update.
There are a couple of other things you can do that the installer does automatically, which if you want to do them you will need to do manually since the SVN is a dev tool, and I can't set it up to do user friendly stuff like the regular installer for LoR does. To create a desktop shortcut, go into your main BtS folder and find the main BtS .exe file, right click on it and select "create shortcut", put that shortcut on the desktop and name it "Legends of Revolution", now right click on it and select properties, in the path field, add mod="LoR" to the end (as an example my LoR desktop shortcut has this for it's path "C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe" mod="LoR"), then with the change icon box, set it to link to the LoR icon in the LoR mod's folder. For Vista and Windows 7 users you can get around the launch as admin issue by going into the LoR folder again, and cutting the UserSettings folder, then go into the My Documents path for BtS (you can get there easily by following one of the shortcuts to various folders like "Saves" in the main BtS folder, then browsing out of the folder you shortcuted to, to it's parent the BtS directory along the My Documents path), once in the BtS directory in the my Documents path create a new folder, and rename this LoR, paste the UserSettings folder you cut here; this will make it so you will no longer need to launch as an admin. That's alot of directions, but once you have things set up, you can just click on the SVN repository you set up and select update to update to the current SVN revision#, and then export it to the main mods folder to update, remember to delete the old version in your mod folder when you do a full export though, that or ensure there are no left over files in the old version that could cause problems.
For those familiure with the SVN, the important web adresses for the LoR SVNs can be found here:
0.9.9 (dev-full): https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoR/
0.9.9 (dev-light): https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoRLight/
SDK: https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoRSource/CvGameCoreDLL/
Unpacked Art: https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/UnpackedArt/
To use the SVN you must download and install tortoise SVN, found here:
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads
Once you have TortoiseSVN installed on your computer, here is how to set up LoR's SVN:
1)Somewhere on your computer create a folder where you want LoR's SVN repository to be (where you want it to store the files for the current SVN); and name that folder LoR.
2)Right click on this folder and select "SVN checkout...", a box will pop up for the SVN information. In the "URL of Repository" field put this:
https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoR/
3)Select OK, and the repository will begin downloading the latest SVN to the folder you selected.
4)Now unstall LoR if you have it installed, this ensures that there are no files left that can conflic with the new version. Once this is done, right click on your LoR SVN folder and in the Tortoise SVN options select "Export", it will want to know where to export it to, and that's your mods folder where LoR usually installs to when you use the installer. The latest SVN will then export to your mods folder and be playable by selecting it like any other mod.
5)When you update the SVN, remember to delete the LoR folder in your mods folder you are going to export to in order to get the most recent updates. This ensures that no old files are left over, which could cause conflicts. If you want to be really smooth, you can always use winmerge to merge in the recent updates, and then you wol't need to delete, and export the full mod with every update.
There are a couple of other things you can do that the installer does automatically, which if you want to do them you will need to do manually since the SVN is a dev tool, and I can't set it up to do user friendly stuff like the regular installer for LoR does. To create a desktop shortcut, go into your main BtS folder and find the main BtS .exe file, right click on it and select "create shortcut", put that shortcut on the desktop and name it "Legends of Revolution", now right click on it and select properties, in the path field, add mod="LoR" to the end (as an example my LoR desktop shortcut has this for it's path "C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe" mod="LoR"), then with the change icon box, set it to link to the LoR icon in the LoR mod's folder. For Vista and Windows 7 users you can get around the launch as admin issue by going into the LoR folder again, and cutting the UserSettings folder, then go into the My Documents path for BtS (you can get there easily by following one of the shortcuts to various folders like "Saves" in the main BtS folder, then browsing out of the folder you shortcuted to, to it's parent the BtS directory along the My Documents path), once in the BtS directory in the my Documents path create a new folder, and rename this LoR, paste the UserSettings folder you cut here; this will make it so you will no longer need to launch as an admin. That's alot of directions, but once you have things set up, you can just click on the SVN repository you set up and select update to update to the current SVN revision#, and then export it to the main mods folder to update, remember to delete the old version in your mod folder when you do a full export though, that or ensure there are no left over files in the old version that could cause problems.
For those familiure with the SVN, the important web adresses for the LoR SVNs can be found here:
0.9.9 (dev-full): https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoR/
0.9.9 (dev-light): https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoRLight/
SDK: https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/LoRSource/CvGameCoreDLL/
Unpacked Art: https://civ4lor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/civ4lor/Trunk/UnpackedArt/
Thanks phungus420!
Just go through the instructions again.
