Writing Files

Use gameWrapper->GetBakkesModPath() and use that as the base path to write to (this will be %appdata%/bakkesmod/bakkesmod). This works for both Epic and Steam installs

Make sure you’ve included fstream

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#include <fstream>

C++17

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std::ofstream stream( gameWrapper->GetBakkesModPath() / "data" / "abc.txt" );
std::ofstream stream( gameWrapper->GetDataFolder() / "abc.txt" ); //Note the removal of "data"
stream << "def";
// %appdata%/bakkesmod/bakkesmod/data/abc.txt now includes "def"

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//Note that windows paths require wide strings, so need to use the L to indicate a wide string
std::ofstream stream( gameWrapper->GetBakkesModPathW() + L"data/abc.txt" );
std::ofstream stream( gameWrapper->GetDataFolderW() + L"abc.txt" );

We highly recommend using C++17. This is the default in the template. If not using the template, in Visual Studio go to your project’s properties -> C/C++ -> Language -> C++ Language Standard -> ISO C++17 Standard (/std:c++17). This will allow you to use std::filesystem::path which prevents a lot of pathing errors (like weird characters in folder names and missing/mixed folder separators) and in general is just much easier to work with.