recon

Recon:
Recon OFP modding utility: Binarizes an addon, puts optimized data into a PBO and copies it to a mod/addons directory.

Place the recon.exe into the same directory as bin.bat and binarize.exe. Use recon.exe at your own risk!

Usage:
recon ADDONNAME MODNAME [-hwtl] [-nobin] [-binconf] [-binpath BINPATH] [-noversion] [-ofppath OFPPATH] [-createdir]

Checks first ADDONNAME\config.cpp for errors, then runs binarize on P3Ds and WRPs in directory ADDONNAME, packs files from Opt\ADDONNAME into ADDONNAME.pbo and copies it over to MODNAME\addons.

Command line parameters

-hwtl: Run binarize with -hwtl (hardware texture and lighting)

-nobin: Don't binarize addon, just PBO and copy to addons-dir

-binconf: binarize the config.cpp (you need cfgcheck.exe)

-binpath BINPATH: path to binarize.exe

-ofppath OFPPATH: path to OFP / ArmA directory

-createdir: create Mod directory, if it does not exist

-noversion: Don't create version file

Example:
create BISman-addon and copy into @ECP\addons-mod directory:
recon BISman @ECP

Example 2:
create BISbus-addons, binarize config, binarize with Hardware Texture and Lighting, copy into @ECP\addons:
recon BISbus @ECP -binconf -hwtl

Example 3:
create myNoe-addon, binarize with old version of binarize (that doesn't crash on WRP-files), copy into mymod\addons:
recon myNoe mymod -binpath oldbinarize.exe

Important:
There has to be a config.cpp in the addon directory (binarize requires a config.cpp). If CfgCheck.exe is in the same directory as recon, then recon will call CfgCheck and check the config.cpp, and abort if any errors occur in the config.cpp. CfgCheck is recommended; for binarizing Configs, CfgCheck is required!
Additionally, the MODNAME\Addons-directory has to exist in the OFP/ArmA- directory. The OFP-directory is automatically retrieved from the Windows registry.

Overview:
RECON is a utility for automatization of the following addon testing/creation

tasks:
binarize, create PBO, copy PBO to OFP addons directory.

Tipps:
If your addon contains textures/images that aren't used in any model/island, then you should create dummy models, that use those textures/images. This is useful for injury textures, damage textures, faces, icons and other uses of textures that aren't used by any model directly (ie setObjectTexture). Just create a plane with many x- and y-segments, texture the segments and they will be copied to the Opt-directory and RECON packs them into the PBO.

Author:
Lukas Pinkowski, vektorboson@gmx.de

Version:
1.11

BUGS:
Unknown

Date:
June 01, 2006

History:
1.11
- Fixed: Bug in Preprocessor with TABS after Macro-Definitions
1.10
- Added: -ofppath parameter, if OFP is not found
- Changed: use -createdir parameter to create nonexistent Mod directories
- Improved: Some error and info messages
1.9
- Fixed: Copies sub-directories into OPT\addon
- Changed: Build/Version file structure
1.8
- Changed: Build/Version number is increased after correct configcheck
- Added: Version SQF file generation
- Added: Build/Version file contains date information
- Added: -binpath command line parameter
1.7
- Added: Build/Version number file generation
- Added: -noversion (suppress version file)
1.6
- Fixed: removed bin.bat requirement
1.5
- Fixed: -hwtl parameter now works
1.4
- Added: -binconf parameter
1.3
- Added: -nobin parameter
1.2
- Added: creates Mod+addons directories, if they don't exist
1.1
- Added: Checks for config.cpp in addon-directory (required!)
- Added: Checks for cfgcheck and uses it for config.cpp
1.0
initial version