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Shader Modding Support Launcher

This mod is not a mod in the traditional sense, so do not activate it in game.
Open the downloaded mod folder directly in order to proceed.

This launcher is intended to simplify as much as possible the steps involved in making game supports shader modification.
With the default settings players can launch games that support shader modification with a single click.

Shader modification, specifically, refers to making regular mods support changes to the contents of the resource/shader folder.
After launching the game via this launcher, you can simply load those mods that include shaders as usual and play normally.

The mod folder contains two exe files, their function is exactly the same.
The difference is:
The version with the _SelfContained suffix can be opened on any system above Window 7.
The version without the suffix must have the .Net 9 Runtime installed. This version is recommended for players with knowledge of the programming.

The program can be started from anywhere on the computer and does not require administrator privileges to run.

If your antivirus software reports virus, it is usually because of the following reasons:

• This program will read and write files contain in the game settings folder.
  
• This program will read the steam directory through registry.
  
• This program will extract a shader.pak file with the shader cache removed.

These reasons may cause antivirus software to mistakenly believe that the program has malicious behaviors, if you still have doubts you can find the source code of the program from the 3.Open Source section and test it yourself.

This tab is the main page of the program and provides the following five launch options:

If you can, it is generally recommended to start the game via the file replacement method. My shader mod is also developed under that mode.

Not implemented yet.

This tab is used to change some of the behavior of the program when start and close the game as follows:

It is best not to do the following behavior to prevent the launcher from producing undefined results:

• Close SMSLauncher.exe in the background from task manager while the game is running
  
• Change folders and files containing the word "shader" in the game's root directory by yourself

If GOH updates its version, you will need to check if the update overwrites shader files in root directory (very rare). If this happens, delete all shader files and check the integrity of the game from steam.
I haven't written an auto processing function for game updates.

In very rare cases, I provide additional launcher support.
If you:

• Can play GOH normally
  
• Can't open the launcher through any exe provided

Under mod/batLauncher is stored the bat version of the launcher, which is very primitive. But it will support you entering the game from dx10.1 mode.
The bat can only be run from the steam game library folder that contains GOH.

The following repository contains the source code of this program:

github repo[github.com]

If you want to know the details of runtime logic and development guide of this launcher, please refer to the repository's readme page.
The code repository is shared under the MIT license.

Special Thanks to

• @𝙆𝙄𝙍𝙄𝙉 𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙂 Provides high-res material for launcher icon
  
• Players who participated in the launcher test

for their contribution during the development!

If you like my work, please give this mod a positive rating, I'd appreciate it =)

If possible, you can directly support my work in the following ways:

Ko-Fi [ko-fi.com]

mbd [mbd.pub]