Mod.io

[ceriux]

Moddb just put this out im not exactly sure what its for but someone here might find a use/understand it better than me.

http://www.moddb.com/news/introducing-modio

[frag.machine]

From what I undestood from the comments, it's a souped up HTTP client library you can embed in your game to download curated content from ModDB CDN servers. Interesting, but nothing revolutionary.

[ceriux]

That's cool kind of like the quake injector?

[frag.machine]

That's cool kind of like the quake injector?

Not quite... Let's take an imaginary Quake example: suppose you created a Quake C mod that uses some new monster models and textures I created. Usually you'd pack those resources with your progs.dat into a .pak file, zip it with a readme.txt and upload the whole thing to ModDB. With Mod.IO support, once I upload my artwork to their CDN servers, your mod just "tells" to the Mod.IO client it depends on this model and that texture pack, and this client will download the latest version of my resources on demand. This can be useful if my models/textures are a WIP and I am updating it regularly, for example.