Pak file asset distribution

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Pak file asset distribution #36

Closed temportalflux closed 2 years ago

temportalflux commented 3 years ago

When building a module (CrystalSphinx or addon module), assets should be compressed into a zip file and that zip file is a .pak file binary. That pak/zip is what is read by active game runs to browse assets.

C++ Zip file creation & reading libraries:

http://www.libarchive.org/
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html
https://github.com/sebastiandev/zipper

temportalflux commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/Examples

temportalflux commented 3 years ago

Replace the assets and Modules folders in the output game directory with packages. Each directory in packages is the name of a package/module (Default for the core assets). Each package directory contains optional items:

<dirname>.pak is the assets pak/zip
<dirname>.dll is any core hooks for that module/package (for mod development)