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7th Heaven / Re: [FF7 PC] Mod Manager - 7th Heaven 2.0

« on: 2020-04-21 01:17:23 »

No you're, not. Mount the ISO using a 3rd party tool. The ISO is located under \Resources\FF7DISC1.ISO in your 7H folder.

You're right in that I could use a 3rd party ISO tool, but then I'd be running 4 programs to essentially run 1.  Ideally I'd like to run 2 programs (the mod manager and the game) and it sounds like you're making progress adding in controller support, which is cool.

I did try to put in a PS1 disc to see if that would work, but for some reason it seems they named the PS1 and PC discs differently.

When I said I was curious about this requirement I really meant it.  Does the Steam version somehow have an ISO mounting tool built into the launcher that I'm not aware of?  Does the FF7 have some weird space limitation that can only be bypassed by faking a larger disc?  Maybe it's explained somewhere I couldn't find.

Pause all downloads besides the one you want to download and that one will download. You're limited to 1 download at a time.

I'm aware of the one download at a time limitation.  The problem is that if you pause those other downloads you have to resume them one at a time.  That means that if I pause to get the fifth mod to download I have to actively be there to resume every single time a mod finishes downloading.  They can't be resumed into the "pending" status.

Unfortunately I wasn't aware of this when I first ran it and decided halfway through one of the larger downloads that I wanted the smaller things to download first.  I went through the first couple of smaller mods and decided this was too involved, so I closed the program.  This completely clears the list and seemingly deletes data from all partial downloads, meaning I wasted around 600MB of data that likely eats into a data cap on the server.  From there I was careful to start the downloads in order based on size.

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7th Heaven / Re: [FF7 PC] Mod Manager - 7th Heaven 2.0

« on: 2020-04-17 02:25:21 »

I'm a bit curious about the FF7DISC1 requirement for this program.  I am playing on an older laptop that can't be updated to Windows 10 due to driver support which means that I am stuck on Windows 7.  There are only 3 USB ports on my laptop that I typically have occupied by mouse, keyboard, and controller.  In order to run this mod manager I'm forced to sacrifice a USB device or use a hub.  It's only a small inconvenience, but it's weird considering I own the full game on steam which seemingly doesn't make that check.


Outside of that I do have some small suggestions.

In the downloads manager I'm able to pause downloads, but they can't be resumed unless everything else is complete.  I discovered this when I was trying to reorder the downloads and force smaller files to go first so that I could play with some mods earlier on while the others finished downloading.

Another problem I had with downloads is that I can't reformat the scroll boxes so that the downloads box has more screen space.  This is mainly just a problem from first run of the program but it should be fixable by either putting the downloads box into another tab or allowing for the boxes to be resized.

If the downloads do stay on the same tab it would also be useful if the "Mod Info" box would reflect the mod you have highlighted in the downloads box so you don't have to search through the catalogue.


Thanks for your work and I look forward to seeing the program progress!