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File packer/resource hiding?

by Ed Averill · in Torque Game Engine · 02/04/2004 (10:42 am) · 3 replies

Did a search on "packer" and had no hits, so here's a newbie question for you (lol ohoh):

Is there a tool/package/expansion/etc. that will allow me to have TGE read from "packed" files instead of an exposed file system? Or is this someplace I should look to add functionality to the engine myself? I'd rather not reinvent the wheel, but I'm not afraid to code (heh heh).

TIA for any comments (other than "go away" that is). ;)
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    Torque Owner Harold "LabRat" Brown
    #1
    02/04/2004 (10:51 am)
    The engine supports .zip files, other then that you would have to code in support for a packed filesystem into the resource manager

    Associate James Urquhart
    #2
    02/04/2004 (10:52 am)
    Ed,

    Take a look at the .zip code :

    core/zipAggregate.cc
    core/zipSubStream.cc
    (And of course any files which happen to use these classes)

    Torque Owner Ed Averill
    #3
    02/04/2004 (1:25 pm)
    @harold: D'oh! I'm dim, ignore me.

    @James: thanks.. that's tonights fun and frolics! Codebase too large.. head exploding.. lol!

    Obviously I should spend more time scrounging around in the code.. grep is my friend.. :-/