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Simple Increasingly featured autosaving for Daggerfall-Unity


Installation

• Download the repo as a zip, or clone it.

• Create a folder named Autosave in the Daggerfall-Unity mod directory. eg DaggerfallUnity_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods/Autosave

• Take the contents of the appropriate OS folder (StandaloneWindows / OSX / Linux) and place them in the Autosave folder you created

• Edit the settings or start the game

Settings

• Save Interval - Set how long between saves

• Autosave Prefixing - Set a prefix for all autosaves

• Save in combat - Allow autosaving in combat

• Formatting autosave names 0.9.0b

• Save on enter exit locations, resting, fast travel 0.9.0b

• Disable timed autosaves 0.9.0b

• Autosave Limiting 0.9.0b

Compatibility

• If you enable autosave limiting and have many old autosaves those old saves will be deleted to match the number of maximum autosaves. As long as they have the work Autosave in the name.

• Autosaves are identified by name. Having the word Autosave in a save will mark it for deletion

Download Autosave-v0.0.1
Download Autosave-v0.9.0b Beta Pre-Release

Very cool! I'll find this useful since I'm constantly hitting quicksave while racing through dungeons.

Testing now..
Edit:Works nicely
Excellent first post! Welcome & Thank You for sharing this!

Requests: Option to limit the number of autosaves
Option to add calender date "MM/dd/yyyy" aswell

Welcome to the forums, aches

That's indeed a great first post!
I wished for an Autosave / Improved Quicksave a while back, so I can only approve this mod

There may be an issue when combined with Tedious Travel, or other mods that change time scale, because it will have an effect on the MonoBehavior.InvokeRepeating() method that you're using. Maybe this mod should periodically check time.realtimeSinceStartup instead...

PS. It could be that Autosave is delayed during Tedious Travel, so the effect of time scaling is not so bad. At least I don't see as many autosaves as I feared...

Good looks on the feedback!

Option to add calender date "MM/dd/yyyy" aswell

Definitely something I want to do.

Option to limit the number of autosaves

Also something I'd like to do. Just need to figure out how it should be done. I may make all autosaves have an Autosave somewhere in the filename so I can determine how many autosaves are currently in the characters SaveLoadManager. Anything else could be user determined.

There may be an issue when combined with Tedious Travel, or other mods that change time scale, because it will have an effect on the MonoBehavior.InvokeRepeating() method that you're using. Maybe this mod should periodically check time.realtimeSinceStartup instead...

I'm a big fan of Tedious Travel, so this is a priority to me. time.realTimeSinceStartup seems like the ideal alternative, could also use C# native System.Timer.Timer. I'll look into it

Welcome to the forums, and great work on your mod. Thank you as well for providing the source, I know other modders in the community will appreciate that.

For the timing, I use Time.realTimeSinceStartup for these kinds of timers and it works great. I'd only suggest checking if the game is paused or not so its not saving during UI interactions.

BTW, I've had Autosave on my internal roadmap for a while, but my implementation would be a bit different (e.g. save when starting rest, initiating fast travel, entering/exiting buildings and dungeons, that kind of thing). I love that your autosave is timer-based and keeps multiple longer history. You're filling a different niche and the two will be able to co-exist happily.

I love this idea too. IK, if you were also planning autosave functions for base DFU, is there any way you and aches could work together to combine these features at some point (aches's timer-based as well as your event-based autosaves, etc.)?

(e.g. save when starting rest, initiating fast travel, entering/exiting buildings and dungeons, that kind of thing)

Funny you guys should mention that

Nice! Soooo can we get this in base DFU instead of a separate mod? Later TES games had similar functionality, though this is an improvement over e.g. base Skyrim options, which didn't have timed autosaves without modding.

Also, I assume it's possible to disable "timed" autosaves completely by scrolling to one or the other end of the "Autosave Interval" bar, yeah?

Also, I assume it's possible to disable "timed" autosaves completely by scrolling to one or the other end of the "Autosave Interval" bar, yeah?

Yep, 0 is a valid option and will disable timed autosaves

Nice! Soooo can we get this in base DFU instead of a separate mod?

I don't see why not. As long as IK hasn't put work in already. I wouldn't want to make merge conflicts
One thing I thought of was where to put the settings. We could possibly do something like this but not mspaint quality
Edit: Seems I forgot that df-unity has an options menu on startup

Yeah, currently you can't access DFU options without a complete restart, but I think IK is going to add that convenience feature fairly soon. But I like your suggestion for the menu access, if he hasn't decided on how that will work already.