Hello!

I'm planning to do a "redo" of @granthes 's CC Magic... but in my own style.

The planned tool will have the following features:

• More flexible grouping -- instead of a hierarchical tree like the current CC Magic where an "Entity" (that's my term for any script / tuning / object) can be part of only one "Set", my tool will allow many-to-many membership (a Set contains many Entities, and an Entity can be part of multiple Sets)
• Replaceable thumbnails -- thumbnails will be extracted and stored into a database, but user can override it with one's own thumbnail
• Ability to specify different "Priority" to different Entities -- allowing proper "Overriding" or "Testing/Probation"
• And hopefully, less buggy "Collections" support

Currently, I'm designing the databases (SQLite3) to hold the metadata about the Containers, Entities, and so forth.

I need to verify if I got the following right:

• .sims3pack files can contain: Images + .package files
• .package files can contain more than 1 'entity' (?)
• .package files must NOT contain another Container
• .sim files are basically .package files containing information about a sim, and nothing else, and it must live inside the "SavedSims" folder (?)

So, do I have the above right?

PS: I'm open to suggestions on wanted features, though I can't promise that I'll implement it. But I'll try!

[*] .package files can contain more than 1 'entity'
Yes, they can.

[*] .package files must NOT contain another Container
Yes, they must not.

I'm open to suggestions on wanted features
Portability. Or at least add an option to specify the path where the game is installed
(if needed) and where the Mods directory is, instead of getting those info from the registry.

They can? Omigosh, I need to rethink my parser.

Any link to .package file structure?

(Should've asked this first, my bad)


Definitely!

I'll of course try pull the 'defaults' out of the registry, but the path would be eminently changeable.

If I understand what you mean with "entity", then yes.
No wonder S3PE can merge/import the content of many .package files into one.
.package file format: http://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_3:DBPF

*Slaps head*

Yeah, you're right.

Okay, I'll rethink the parser. Luckily I'm still in prototyping stage, so changes are piece of cake.

Thanks for reminding!