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[UpdateVersion] Package zip file and update.

by orsteam · in Torque Game Engine · 01/05/2012 (5:59 am) · 1 replies

Is there any body know how to update game version by VFS.
I package game resources file by ZipArchive (*.zip). for example directory shapebase(>500MB), I package it with shapebase.zip, and game.exe can load the shapes from this zip file successful. But next time if i want to modify some model files or add some model files in this directory. how can i update this zip file(shapebase.zip) ,not rezip this directory file(shapebase),as its size is so large that transfering to client from net very slow.

I want to implement the update directory like this: shapebase.zip, shapebase1.zip, shapebase2.zip, shapebase3.zip; when client run,The load resources function[ResManager::searchPath()] will load file by order. and replace old resources file with new resources file.Is there any problem?

Anybody has a good idea?

#1
01/18/2012 (4:22 pm)
I've seen/heard of several developers using a process just like you describe for maintaining and updating their game resources. It actually is kind of surprising that noone has yet offered a Resource to show how.