Modders: lets systematize function injections! Thread - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Note: function injection == monkeypatch.

Hey! I've had many headaches due to sneaky conflicts in which no files are conflicting but scripts inject the same function with a different implementation into other scripts. My proposition is that lets keep function injections (basically DLTX with scripts) but lets also put the vanilla file that we're modifying into the mod files! That way conflicts show in mod installation in case the same script is altered by different mods but different parts of the same script can be simultaneously changed by different mods.

Example of a function injection in "example.script":

ui_workshop.UIWorkshopRepair.ListInventory = function(self)
printf("Now the repair tab does nothing in the workshop")
end

So in this example the mod's scripts folder contains "example.script" and unmodified "ui_workshop.script".

Edited by: Banjaji