Re: PakFiles & Portability

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

stark@easynet.fr wrote:

>> >> (2) (almost the same issue as above) Is support for (sym-) links useful?
>> >
>> Perhaps for aliasing directoriey (i.e. /grapics/movies/ to /movies/), but I
>> doubt any game developer will do this...
>
>I'd say it may be usefull. Say:
>
>LEVEL0/GRAPHICS/
>LEVEL1/GRAPHICS/
>LEVEL2/GRAPHICS/
>
>DEFAULT/GRAPHICS/
>
>With a link to DEFAULT/GRAPHICS for levels that dont have their graphics  
>done (I know, the developper could just have reverted to DEFAULT/GRAPHICS if  
>LEVELnn/GRAPHICS did not exist.)
>
>But with a little more complex design it may begin to make sense.
>
>LEVEL000/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND.PNG
>LEVEL001/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND.PNG
>LEVEL002/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND.PNG
>...
>LEVEL099/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND.PNG
>
>Could all be links to any of:
>
>SHARED/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND/FIRE.PNG
>SHARED/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND/WATER.PNG
>SHARED/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND/SAND.PNG
>SHARED/GRAPHICS/BACKGROUND/AIR.PNG

Hmm, ok. That makes sense. So it's better to keep symlinks.

Cu
	Christian
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