#mod automation

[deepbluefrog]

Like Clockwork.

My old process to collect all my changes and release a mod used to take at least 45 minutes per mod.

The new process, automated with python scripts, just took me an hour and a half... for five mod releases.

Not a bad investment of time.

[deepbluefrog]

I didn't mean to tease with these posts... just to show how things are progressing.

I am currently finalizing my deployment script to stay on top of the files I need to assemble into releases.

The idea is to run one script to assemble all the parts of each mod into the folders they are supposed to go to - mainly one folder to serve as backup and staging area to create BSA files and the corresponding github repositories. That will avoid situations where I forgot files or copied things that shouldn’t have been part of a mod package.

If I can also automate creating BSA files, pushing releases to github and packaging lists of issues from a Github milestone into release notes, even better... but that part is still some ways off.

I should have done that a long time ago but I am slowly getting to a more reliable deployment process.

As an added bonus, the script gives me a manifest of all the files and folders needed for each mod.

I created a repo in Github about it in case anyone can take a look or use it for yourselves:

https://github.com/SkyrimLL/CKTools/tree/master/DeployCKFiles

The file works for me at the moment but I am trying to design it in a way that can be adapted to any situation where you have a bunch of files in a list of source folders that you want to copy and dispatch into multiple target folders.

Once I am done adding sections to that file for all of my mods, I will be in good shape to package them into new releases.