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Install Path for upgrading TGB

by Donald "Yadot" Harris · in General Discussion · 03/12/2007 (12:09 pm) · 2 replies

Just wondering what is the correct way to upgrade TGB. I have the indie version. Will I need to purchase anything? What needs to be backed up? Will my game be impacted in anyway?

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03/12/2007 (12:20 pm)
@Donald, if you install TGB over top of itself, your existing game projects stored in the INSTALL_PATH/games/ directory will be untouched. Though, it's always good practice to back things up whenever you perform steps like this ...

Games in the current version of TGB are stored in the INSTALL_PATH/games directory, each in there own directory (they are viewed as 'mods' to the engine), so you can install TGB 'clean' to a new location, and then copy the game 'mods' you want over to the new versions 'games' directory -- I myself, have numerous copies of TGB floating around on my system ... and to create each, I simply just copied the first installs directory structure and placed it somewhere else ... TGB does not utilize the windows registry, or any other OS level storage functionalities (currently) ... so you can just copy/paste the install path and place it somewhere else ... the only thing that would be affected are your OS-level shortcuts such as Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts in Windows (not sure about OSX)

Short answer to your question, you shouldn't have to worry about anything ... though, backups are a general standard practice :)