[Dev] SVN: james/501 Math Marauders: Now saves any changes you make to the map

[James Paige]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:49:05PM -0700, Brian Fisher wrote:
>    On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      .AddBootstrapObjectForAssetID says to me that it will use value whenever
>      the AssetID is "default" ... which doesn't sound right ot me. What about
>      just .SetDefaultObject ?
> 
>    When you say "SetDefaultObject" are you saying that you want it so that
>    anytime somebody tries to get an asset of any particular name, it always
>    exists, and is saveable, regardless of whether something of that name
>    exists on disk?

No, only if nothing exists on disk.

>     Wouldn't you be worried about broken references sliding by
>    without error? (i.e. you delete or rename or move something and you don't
>    necessarily get to ever know)

If I think about "default" instead of "broken" then it doesn't bother me 
in the slightest.

>    Cause what I was thinking of was just solving the bootstrapping problem -
>    the idea that you can have one editable saveable copy even if you don't
>    have one. And then if you want to add more, now you have to be explicit in
>    your references and in what you create, and making those match...

That would be plenty to keep me happy for now :)

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James