Is it possible to install BUG/BULL and BUFFY?

I wanted to be able to play forum games aswell as HoF games, but haven't found a method to install civilization twice. Now I've installed BUG + BULL in the Custom Assets Folder wonder if I can still play HoF Games with the BUFFY mod, BUG + BULL replace the gamecore.dll, does that matter anyhow?

Seraiel said:

I wanted to be able to play forum games aswell as HoF games, but haven't found a method to install civilization twice. Now I've installed BUG + BULL in the Custom Assets Folder wonder if I can still play HoF Games with the BUFFY mod, BUG + BULL replace the gamecore.dll, does that matter anyhow?

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you do the right thing. One more thing you need is to ensure that you start BUFFY with original DLL and your "offline" games with BULL's DLL.

I made for that purpose 2 bat files that switch DLL's in install directory. So the switch is just matter of running bat file. Since I was too lazy I made the bats a bit non-intelligent and thus I have backup copy of bull's dll and orig dll elsewhere too (it sometimes is tough to remember what dll was run last )

I use .bat files to switch the DLLs as well. Dhoomstriker created those .bats for me some time ago. BUFFY will not work with BUG in custom assets. You may be able set the BUFFY config to not read the custom assets file - there is a setting for this. However, I use a few custom asset copies for various mods. Ruff_hi created a VB tool that will switch custom assets folders in a second. You can find it in the Utilities sub-forum of the mod forum.

V - not sure how your .bats are set up, but you can simply tell which dll is current by the size of the dll file in the Asset folder.

I've attached a zip file containing my .bat files to switch between BULL and vanilla dlls. You may have to edit the files to match the directories based on OS. Just create copies of the dll files as named in the bat files. You can open the bat files in Notepad to view and edit the files.

lymond said:

V - not sure how your .bats are set up, but you can simply tell which dll is current by the size of the dll file in the Asset folder.

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technically correct, but that means checking the folder before applying the bat ;-) and for that i am too lazy too.

Much better way would be that the bat checks if exists ".bull" before doing it's moves or the same reverse (".orig"). And for that i was too lazy to search how to do ;-)
I am doing only switches, so my "orig.bat" saves current to .bull and copies orig to current. my "bull.bat" saves current to .orig and copies bull to current.

If I run the wrong it gets messy and i lose the files and have to load from backup ;-).

well, the way my bats are set up it doesn't matter. If you run the bull bat you have bull, if you run vanilla you have vanilla. Simple as that. You might want to check the files out. By nature of the setup you have copies of both dlls anyway.

Great Thx!