[RasterRon]

Another work in progress.. the idea is to support plain, encrypted or password protected zip files as well.

[JeffR]

Ooh, nice.

I'd gotten drag-n-drop importing of assets(shape files, images, etc), but I hadnt gotten zips and full packages working. That's very nice. Need to collaborate on this business for maximum awesomeness

Are the packages set up in a particular way? Since it sounds like it's distinct from just regular old zips.

[RasterRon]

Thanks Jeff and sure thing! Actually with this tool, I was planning to build it on a separate exe/process so it will be lighter on the engine source side and somehow easier to manage. I have seen your work btw and it looks great as well and almost complete. I thought T3D already has all of zip I/O functions so what issues are you having? Of course with this tool I will be using an external zip library.

Are the packages set up in a particular way? Since it sounds like it's distinct from just regular old zips.

I think this will depend on the user on how the content of package will be exported, but mostly and in the meantime it will follow current T3D folder structure.

[JeffR]

Makes sense.

For the zip import, it's less 'issues' and more just that I hadn't gotten it in there yet. As you said, T3D's got pretty much all the needed guts for zip i/o, i just hadn't gotten to capitalizing on it yet.

[RasterRon]

Ok got it, sounds great! I also have not tested all T3D's built-in zip functionalities, but glad to know the game zip loading specific features works great now.

[JeffR]

Yeah, as far as i know, the only 2 issues that have come up is if you have a zipped folder alongside the non-zipped, t3d gets confused and tries to read them both, leading to duplications and lots of 'this already exists!'. The other is I believe there's some oddities with loading some resources like sound out of a zip, but I haven't tested that a ton yet.

For the most part though, it seems like it behaves, yeah.

[RasterRon]

t3d gets confused and tries to read them both, leading to duplications and lots of 'this already exists!'.

I did notice that, but I think that is a good thing and setup when you have unique folders/files and mounted zips, it makes the asset directories clear and not confusing.

The other is I believe there's some oddities with loading some resources like sound out of a zip, but I haven't tested that a ton yet.

Richard's solution works great, you can try and check it out here: http://forums.torque3d.org/viewtopic.ph ... =517#p4619