LiquidLauncher seeks to be the ultimate launcher for SRB2 and as such we strive to provide every game setting we can possibly find right to your fingertips. LiquidLauncher currently supports OVER 100+ GAME OPTIONS to adjust your netgames exactly how you wish, including dedicated first-class support for Battlemod!
On Linux, LiquidLauncher also supports launching SRB2 through both WINE and Flatpak installations.
Wanna quickly set-up multiple netgames in one go? LiquidLauncher supports live-swappable profiles so you'll never have to remember your settings again. All settings are also saved in an easy-to-edit TOML format for easy adjustment and sharing.
Wanna share your configs with non-LiquidLauncher players? Wanna host your LiquidLauncher config on a dedicated server? Simply export your settings as a launch script for both Windows and *nix shell formats, available for both client and server setups.
Although based on LauncherBlast2-reBoot, we completely overhauled our netgame browser to provide a comfortable netgaming experience. Join active netgames directly from LiquidLauncher, manage bookmarks of any netgames you like, and because we're Liquid of course, we've also made sure you can do so for any master server you can find, including native support for LiquidMS.
Mod downloads disabled? Just use the integrated mod browser to download mods from all across the SRB2 community and have them added to your profile in one click.
(DISCLAIMER: Due to possible quality control concerns on behalf of the official SRB2 Message Board, only the official forum is enabled by default. Player discretion is advised.)
Keep up with the latest news from Liquid, SRB2, the wider Sonic community or literally any RSS feed you can find. Seriously, just add your own feed in the settings and you can browse news from all across the internet, right from within LiquidLauncher.
Simply put LiquidLauncher.exe into your SRB2 directory. This should make sure
that all commands run by LiquidLauncher point to the right files.
Many modern antivirus solutions check against a database of known file hashes, which can lead to false positives for lesser-known homebrew projects such as this.
Of course, we'd like you to verify our launcher using another antivirus scan such as VirusTotal, but unless there's been a middleman inbetween you and the GitHub servers (which HTTPS should prevent), our executables contain no malware and should be safe to execute. Please don't run them as administrator though, it's not necessary.
Just run it. Linux usually installs the game globally and resolves file lookup itself, so it doesn't matter.
If you run the Flatpak version... send us your issues and we'll seek to fix them :3
Nuitka is already included in our requirements.txt simply install it
into your (virtual) environment and run the following command:
user$ nuitka ll_main.py --onefile --disable-console
Here's a quick breakdown of our tools:
LiquidLauncher is written in Python. In order to start developing LiquidLauncher, we recommend using our make recipe:
user$ make init
Alternatively, you can also manually set up a virtual environment.
user$ python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment
After that's done, install the necessary packages into there.
user$ pip install -r requirements.txt
In order to run your development builds, use Python 3:
user$ python3 ll_main.py
The graphical interface is done using Qt Designer. To generate a compiled Python BLOB, simply run the respective Qt compilers:
user$ pyside6-uic ll.ui -o ll_ui.py
user$ pyside6-rcc ll.qrc -o ll_rc.py
Alternatively, we've also supplied Make recipies to do this:
user$ make ll_ui.py
user$ make ll_rc.py
Due to Qt requirements, resource images are to be included in PNG format.
For editing, please use SVG if you can (this will future-proof the graphics).
Icons are rendered/exported with a standard height of 64px.
default.html is a resource to be included in ll.qrc. It provides the
initial page for the RSS browser.
Distributable builds are done using [PyInstaller] and we prefer one-file builds for easy distribution. Here's the command to do it.
user$ nuitka ll_main.py --onefile --disable-console
We also defined a make recipe for your convenience:
user$ make dist
On first launch, LiquidLauncher will create a few config files to help. These are largely in TOML format and should be fairly easy to exchange and edit.
ll_profiles/default.toml
: A default game profile. You can create additonal profiles under Game -> Profiles
settings.toml
: Global settings. This includes your current profile, available profiles, mod
sources (also your RSS feeds someday) and your currently selected Master Server
netgames.toml
: Your bookmarked netgames.
masterservers.toml
: Your saved master servers. By default, these are filled in with the official
STJr and Kart Krew master servers.
Special thanks to HitCoder9768's for building the base of this project, LauncherBlast2-reBoot.