Zip files as resource files?

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    • Zip files as resource files?

      I did remember coming across a web article which mentions using WinZip files as resource files, and providing some source code. Anyone came across this time?

      That aside, where can I find code to pry into zipped files? Is using zip files as a resource file recommendable?
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    • A forum topic that you might want to look at.

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      A link that MRom put me onto that shows what goes into various file formats (zip is down the bottom of the page)
      http://www.wotsit.org

      The post was edited 1 time, last by Gerry ().

    • You can definitely do this - in fact Thief 3 uses zip files for storing meshes and textures on the Xbox.
      Mr.Mike
      Author, Programmer, Brewer, Patriot

    • I've been thinking about this for some time - and it makes decent sense, too. I pulled zlib down some time ago and haven't gotten around to playing with it yet.

      Anyone look at Auran's Jet yet? I've fiddled with it somewhat and it's got a handy feature that lets you treat their resource files as if they were just subdirectories. So if you've got a file named mymesh.x in meshes.res you can access it like:

      MyOpenFile("../resources/meshes.res/mymesh.x");

      Excuse the oversimplification, but it's pretty straight forward and sort of nifty....

      And I think their format uses some sort of compression as well. I haven't fiddled with it in a while - I've been stuck learning database programming for the last 6 months.... Blech!
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