> Another would if you make an app that uses images in some, say a game, > and you store the images externuly, if you use your own format you could > prevent users from messing with them. That is, if its a format that your > apps > could only understand. > > Yeah the whole time and energy thing come into play. > > _______________________________________________ > As for games, I think that, aside from massively multi games, the ability for end users to modify content is actually a good thing. I've bought games that I didn't like <cough>Quake III Arena</cough> just to play mods.
Aside from that consideration, an easy way to obfuscate files from a user would be to create a virtual volume and save them into it. Or even compressed, then packed into it. This is similar to how Quake handled its resource files, but obviously that didn't stay all that obfuscated. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
