Anybody interested in tools to create custom files, such as packing bitmap files and such in a customly created file so gamers won''t mess with it? I''ve just created the engine that does it. Free for your use if you''re interested!

Does it use any kind of compression?

Man, do i love that idea.

i''ve always hated the fact that if you were to go mess w/ some of the .bmp''s or .wav''s in a game''s directory you can mess w/ the game...

i''m too used to console programming...

oh, btw, i just pack my data into the .rc file as bin data and lock the resource that addresses it.

isn''t that along the same ideas as id''s .PAK files?

hrmm.

what''s the url? i''ll check it out

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I''ll have to send it through email, don''t have a website. There''s no compression.

Oh oh! Free plug opporotunity!

I wrote a program similar to what you're talking about, called Wad Maker. The newest demo was released a small time ago (To see it go here).

The demo version does use compression, but it is still being worked out to work with files over 4 KB (I am coding the solution with all of my free time ).

Vbisme, ZLib and LZO are good libraries for compression if you want to use them (I did), look for them on google, you'll find their sites.


http://www.gdarchive.net/druidgames/


Edited by - Null and Void on December 14, 2000 11:27:03 PM

yeah i would like something like that

My stuff works for any file size. I have no idea how to do compression