There exists a data- and a nodata-flavor of every kind of package. As said before, you'll usually want the data-package. The windows binary + data package is an installation setup program.
When ultimatestunts is started, it searches for a configuration file called "ultimatestunts.conf". Depending on the compilation settings, there are several locations where Ultimate Stunts tries to find this file. There is always one main location, and if ultimatestunts.conf is not found there, it is copied to that location from one of the other locations.
The main location for ultimatestunts.conf is ~/.ultimatestunts on UNIX-style systems, and "." on windows systems (. is the directory from where Ultimate Stunts is started). If Ultimate Stunts is started from the source directory, then the main location is also ".".
The other locations where ultimatestunts.conf is searched, are (in this order):
<prefix>/etc (<prefix> is /usr/share/local by default) /etc /usr/local/etc .
All options are documented in the configuration file. For windows users who wish to edit ultimatestunts.conf manually, I reccomend to use Wordpad instead of Notepad, as Notepad does not support UNIX-style text files.
Two interesting options are datadir and savedir
in the [files] section. Both directories are used as locations where
data files are searched, but data files are only saved in savedir. This
means that datadir can be read-only for the user, but savedir always needs
to be writable. If a file is loaded, it is first searched in savedir, and
then in datadir. This means that default data files that are in datadir,
can be replaced by placing another file with the same name in savedir.
Windows users should be aware that windows-style directory names could give
problems here. In case of problems, use locations with no spaces in the path,
use slashes (/) instead of backslashes (\), and write "/cygdrive/c/" instead
of "C:\" in absolute paths.
If you have a (non-UNIX style) Mac OS X version of Ultimate Stunts, you can
fill in the special value "@appbundle" for datadir. When Ultimate Stunts has
been compiled with support for application bundles, this value will be
recognized, and the "data" subdirectory in Ultimate Stunts' bundle directory
will be used as datadir.