Feature Request - Hot Reloading Modules, Scripts, and Dialogues

[lachjames]

Hi :)

As you probably know, the original KotOR games are difficult to mod because of the way save games work - when you save a game in a particular module, the game will load many resources from that module (overriding any resources in the base game folder). This is troublesome when modding the games, sometimes requiring a bit of in-game play for every test of a dialog or module edit.

What would be great is if Reone had a "developer" mode that:

• Saves a checksum of the original game file for each item saved in a game save
• When loading while in developer mode, if an original file has changed (i.e. different checksum), override the save game file with it.

Now, this is not a perfect solution - what would be fantastic would be to somehow intelligently diff the save-game and the original, and diff the new version and the original, and then reconcile the two... but I think such a feature would not be reliable enough, which defeats the point of including it at all. The ability to hot-swap module and dialog files, perhaps while keeping the state-variables the same (that is, variables that were not in the original file at all, but were added during the game save) would be a good compromise here?

Even just allowing the hot-swapping of dialog files would be incredible, and that shouldn't require much work because dialog files aren't edited in saves anyway.

Thanks for the awesome project!