Request: save/load for plugins

WhiskasTM

Rather incorporated within original common.dll so savegames would turn into extended format:

[uuid]
 <data>[uuid]
 <data>[uuid]
<data></data></data></data>
```And the library would additionally export:

void Register ( uuid ID, callback CallProc, uint CallParam );
void Unregister ( uuid ID, callback CallProc, uint CallParam );

CallProc - callback that is called with registered ID.
CallParam - user defined.

typedef callback void (const uuid ID, bool Loading, *Memory, uint *Size, const uint CallParam);

If Loading TRUE, *Memory contains a pointer to data that must be read and *Size contains length of those data.
If Loading FALSE, *Memory must be assigned with a pointer to data that must be written into savegame, and length of those data must be written into *Size.
CallParam is user defined which is simply sent back.

Some consortium on idea? Or may be some way already exists to save/load?

I've thought about saving/loading parallel .flplugindata files, but it seemed to me unreliable in the case of renaming savegames inside the game, or close to that, I believe tracking associated savegame might break one day, and not sure there are too many places in which game is saved/loaded completely to support multiple hooks from various plugins (if any).

All this is because of Helloween's Dynamic Mission Plugins point and suddenly realized what is missing: such new (virtualized/parallel to the game) things definitely need a storage.

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Not mine, W0dka’s and M0tah’s

WhiskasTM

Anyway, I’ve looked at gta’s plugins and those keep data externally (ini, txt files). Indeed, players may play any savegame without being annoyed about would-be hardcoded progress inside ones because of some plug-in. Retiring the idea, I suppose.

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Look at the Player Bases Plugin save format maybe…
I was tried to make act_Save or something like this at MP and it was saved into player’s SP file.

So idea is to make MP files even full like SP