ASMP vs. PATCHDAT

[Reclaimer Shawn 2]

So, whenever I was making a patch for my custom map, I used Alteration to create a .patchdat. It was about 16.1 MB. I then used Assembly to create a .asmp file, and it was 154 MB. In terms of functionality, is there any difference between the two files? If I imported a lot of resources, which would be the best to use?

[Lord Zedd 1,771]

Not sure what all patchdat supports but asmp is the way to go these days. I'm pretty sure if you try applying the patchdat you made to a fresh map you'll just get a corrupted map.

[Thunder 468]

11 minutes ago, Lord Zedd said:

Not sure what all patchdat supports but asmp is the way to go these days. I'm pretty sure if you try applying the patchdat you made to a fresh map you'll just get a corrupted map.

There should be some legacy patching support for ascension/alteration patches in Assembly.  Why would using a patchdat on a clean map cause corruption?

[Reclaimer Shawn 2]

Alright, I'll use the .ASMP format then. Thanks!

[Thunder 468]

2 minutes ago, Reclaimer Shawn said:

Alright, I'll use the .ASMP format then. Thanks!

Yeah, just to be clear.  Patchdat is an old legacy format pre-Assembly.  Assembly (and thus ASMP) replaced the old toolsets.

[Lord Zedd 1,771]

2 hours ago, Thunder said:

There should be some legacy patching support for ascension/alteration patches in Assembly.  Why would using a patchdat on a clean map cause corruption?

Applying an old patchdat wouldn't harm anything, but creating a new patchdat from a map with tag injection might cause problems. In which case applying said patchdat would only change the 16mb contained in the original map, but not apply the 100+ mb of injected tags/resources to go with it, corrupting the map.

[Thunder 468]

21 minutes ago, Lord Zedd said:

Applying an old patchdat wouldn't harm anything, but creating a new patchdat from a map with tag injection might cause problems. In which case applying said patchdat would only change the 16mb contained in the original map, but not apply the 100+ mb of injected tags/resources to go with it, corrupting the map.

Oh I misunderstood.  When you said "clean map" I thought you meant an unmodified map.