Resource paths reading/overwriting order?

[VNDragonV2]

The default resource path in zoo.ini is as follows: ./dlupdate;./updates;./xpack2/loc;./xpack2;./dupdate;./zupdate1;./xpack1/loc;./xpack1;./zupdate;./loc;.

 

Is this also indicative of the game's reading order as well? Ergo, "loc" is read first and "dlupdate" is read last. I used to think they are read alphabetically but that wouldn't make sense for the existence of dlupdate, which we know is read last or else none of the hacks would be working. I am sure this has been established/known eons ago but did not find a thread confirming this explicitly.

[Fern]

From Jay: Yes, that line is what tells the reading order to ZT. Things to the right in that order will be read before things to the left, allowing the things on the left to override things read on the right. But "loc" is read second. To the right of that is ";.". That "." means ZT's main folder is read first. This order applies to ".ztd" files but not ".dll" files. ZT will only read ".dll" files that are in ZT's main folder. As for hacks, I feel they should be in a hacks folder, since some hacks affect things in the dlupdate folder. I talk about this in the "Combined Guest Hack For ZT Community" topic at DD:
http://www.ztcdd.org/DD/index.php?topic=11622.0

[VNDragonV2]

16 hours ago, Fern said:

From Jay: Yes, that line is what tells the reading order to ZT. Things to the right in that order will be read before things to the left, allowing the things on the left to override things read on the right. But "loc" is read second. To the right of that is ";.". That "." means ZT's main folder is read first. This order applies to ".ztd" files but not ".dll" files. ZT will only read ".dll" files that are in ZT's main folder. As for hacks, I feel they should be in a hacks folder, since some hacks affect things in the dlupdate folder. I talk about this in the "Combined Guest Hack For ZT Community" topic at DD:
http://www.ztcdd.org/DD/index.php?topic=11622.0

Thank you both for confirming. I manage hacks by alphabetical order in my .ztd, but creating a separate folder is a great approach too.

[Fern]

It does make it easy to find them (hacks) too when you want to check something.