Implicit path causing generation to not happen

[Adambean]

I'll try and keep to the point on this. -- I have a folder with all my GoldSrc dev going on, with some folders:

• compile
• decompile
• maps
• maps\SC
• many others

I've got resguy in the "compile" folder along with many other compiling tools. When running resguy I'd expect to use something like:

resguy "..\maps\SC\TFC Ports\K_TheGame2\maps\k_thegame2_r.bsp"

The first issue is that resguy implicitly prefixes my path with "maps/", so I get:

ERROR: maps/..\maps\SC\TFC ports\K_TheGame2\maps\k_thegame2_r.bsp not found

To work around that I added my own prefix of ".." to back out of "maps" with:

resguy "..\..\maps\SC\TFC ports\K_TheGame2\maps\k_thegame2_r.bsp"

This finds the map fine and parses what resources it has no problem, but I think my own "maps" folder is confusing it, as I get a stranger error:

Failed to open .res file for writing: maps/....\maps\SC\TFC ports\K_TheGame2\maps....\maps\SC\TFC ports\K_TheGame2\maps\k_thegame2_r.res

[wootguy]

It's meant to be run from the root of a content folder (e.g. svencoop_addon/) since it needs to search in folders other than maps to find file references.

As a workaround you can do:

cd ..\maps\SC\TFC ports\K_TheGame2
copy ..\..\..\..\compile\resguy_default_content.txt .
..\..\..\..\compile\resguy k_thegame2

I'm assuming you have all the models/sounds/etc. in that custom path, too.

I think then there should be an option to set the working directory, so you can do:
resguy k_thegame2 -work_dir="..\maps\SC\TFC Ports\K_TheGame2"
and maybe -work_dir would be implied if giving a path to the map instead of just a map name.

[Adambean]

Ah OK, I was treating this as a drop in replacement for RESGen, which I'd typically run as part of my compile script rather than from a game's working directory. (Though I guess it has a likeness in that I tell RESGen which folder it can find resources at.)