Resources outdoors
Posted: Jan 19, 2005 @ 3:31pmHow do you organize all the non-executable stuff (graphics, music, etc) if it isn't stored as resources inside the executable file?
It seems it's common to make a single archive file (like Doom's .wad) containing all those things compressed as a whole or file by file.
Why is it worse to put your images as a bunch of separate regular files? I'm not too much concerned about porting outside Win32.
And for that .wad file, would a vulgar zip suffice, or we actually need something hand-made, like GapiDraw VFS?
Thanks in advance for any opinions.
It seems it's common to make a single archive file (like Doom's .wad) containing all those things compressed as a whole or file by file.
Why is it worse to put your images as a bunch of separate regular files? I'm not too much concerned about porting outside Win32.
And for that .wad file, would a vulgar zip suffice, or we actually need something hand-made, like GapiDraw VFS?
Thanks in advance for any opinions.