Custom gamepacks on Linux AppImage

[DonaldHays]

I'm working on a Quake 3 BSP loader library for the LÖVR game framework. I would like developers to be able to create new maps for new games with it. They will need to use editors like NRC to make these maps. Since these are new games, I want to provide them with a template gamepack that they can fork and customize and extend.

I'm having an issue on Linux, though. From what I can see, the current Linux release of NRC is only available as an AppImage. I would think it should scan for custom gamepacks in a directory like ~/.netradiant/<ver>/gamepacks/games/, but I think radiant.log is indicating it's only scanning from within the AppImage archive?

... snip ...
Scanning for game description files: /tmp/.mount_NetRadgBAmBB/usr/bin/gamepacks/games/
/tmp/.mount_NetRadgBAmBB/usr/bin/gamepacks/games/Q3.game
/tmp/.mount_NetRadgBAmBB/usr/bin/gamepacks/games/aa_ctf.game
/tmp/.mount_NetRadgBAmBB/usr/bin/gamepacks/games/aa_dm.game
... snip ...

Is there a way to get the AppImage of NRC to see new, custom gamepacks?

[Garux]

This is yet another Appimage problem heh.
Google says unpacking is possible: ./YourApp.AppImage --appimage-extract

You can view, modify, or run the application directly from this folder using the AppRun script inside it.

[DonaldHays]

I was afraid something like that would be the answer 😆.

That'll work, though it would be nice if NRC was also available as a non-AppImage build. Or if it could search the relevant ~/.netradiant subdirectories for gamepacks in addition to the built-in dirs.

Thanks!

[Garux]

Isn't extracted build sort or normal build you want?
S/w distribution is always a problem in linux. People regularly have libs mismatch with regular builds and have to run build process themselves in their distro.
Extracted build is even better, since deps are included.