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Del Duio
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22nd August, 2007 at 07:47:55 -
Originally Posted by AndyUK [Ectoprods]
Originally Posted by Del Duio
Never!
Um why?
Half because I'm an old fart, and we don't do change!
Half because I still use MMF1.5, and you can't have embedded OGG files with it can you? I need the sounds / voices to be part of the exe. I don't want to have Captain of the Guard or Undertown again with a million extra dependancy files inside the game's folder. I know a lot of "real" games do this, but if I can get everything inside one big .exe, I'd rather have that. (Excluding the cnc232.dll, of course, for those who don't have it already.)
I'm sure I'm probably wrong, but this is how I learn stuff- the hard way 
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DaVince
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22nd August, 2007 at 08:18:15 -
Having external resources has some advantages though - it's more memory saving and will allow you to at least compress them well.
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Del Duio
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22nd August, 2007 at 09:27:38 -
I know you're right, but it will also let people change the files if they wanted to. I want to try and get away from that kind of thing if I can. If in the end this thing is a ridiculous 200MB I'll look into external files if I have to. I already had somebody offer to mirror the eventual download who has a lot more bandwidth usage / day than I do with Sitesled, so maybe that big of a download wouldn't be a deal breaker in the long run.
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"To be a true ninja you must first pick the most stealthy of our assorted combat suits. Might I suggest the bright neon orange?"
DXF Games, coming next: Hasslevania 2- This Space for Rent!
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AndyUK
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22nd August, 2007 at 16:32:10 -
Actually i guess it wont matter much because the download will be compressed anyway. But i'm not entirely sure if a compressed wav is the same size as an mp3 or not.
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DaVince
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22nd August, 2007 at 16:45:23 -
Originally Posted by AndyUK [Ectoprods]
Actually i guess it wont matter much because the download will be compressed anyway. But i'm not entirely sure if a compressed wav is the same size as an mp3 or not.
The mp3 and ogg compression algorithms are specially developed for sound, while zip, rar etcetera is kinda general purpose. So yes, it does matter somewhat.
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Del Duio
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23rd August, 2007 at 07:41:42 -
Originally Posted by Phizzy [Ectoprods]
Hmm? Well, what's the harm if some person replaces some voice acting with a wave file of them slapping their microphone with their cock?
AH HA!!
Hasslevania Mods!
Think of the possibilities!
Maybe in the sequel!
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"To be a true ninja you must first pick the most stealthy of our assorted combat suits. Might I suggest the bright neon orange?"
DXF Games, coming next: Hasslevania 2- This Space for Rent!
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Bo Fu
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5th September, 2007 at 19:43:32 -
Don't think of external files as a bad thing. Even if a user replaces them, no biggie. They'll think you're a genius for making your game modifiable.
If wishes were fishes then we'd all smell like ladies' underwear.
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AndyUK
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5th September, 2007 at 22:27:30 -
Originally Posted by Bo Fu
Don't think of external files as a bad thing. Even if a user replaces them, no biggie. They'll think you're a genius for making your game modifiable.
But then you'll have the extension overhead, i mean it could add mulitple kilobytes to the overall size. Terribly inefficient.
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