Changes

The content of a single base.scs pack from which was in 1.49 was separated into base.scs, base_map.scs, base_share.scs and base_vehicle.scs packs to reduce amount of copying in case patch updates only files from a single group. This has no direct effect on behavior of the mods, they all those packs are still considered part of as one "base" set.

The version 1.50 introduces of new version of our hashfs HashFS pack archive so you need to download new version of [[Documentation/Tools/Game Archive Extractor|scs_extractor]] to extract it.

The game now also officially supports hashfs pack HashFS based packs in mods. This provides faster load of the mod. While the zip and standalone file formats are still supported, the 1.50 depends on quick availability of some metadata which the hashfs . The HashFS format keeps them in memory while they have to be reconstructed from on-disk data for other formats which . This could lead to stalls when the data are accessedby the game so using the HashFS format is preferred. The format can be created or extracted using the new [[Documentation/Tools/Game Archive Packer|scs_packer]] tool.

Unlike the other supported formats, the hashfs HashFS v2 archive stores tobjs as a single object together with the texel data under the tobj name. It does not store standalone dds files. When game finds a tobj file inside a hashfs HashFS pack, it will load the texel data from that object instead of opening separate dds files like it does for other formats. This means that you can not independently modify just tobj or just dds for textures which are stored in hashfs HashFS (e.g. such as coming from basegame packs).