On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:42:54 -0400 Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >But then we can scrap the whole project. We have already >modified >> >the data, we even scrapped the WDG format that's used on the >CDs, so >> >for our current SVN, the CDs are useless. And it degrades us >into the role >> >of curators, we can just keep the game running on modern >systems >> >instead of evolving it. >> >> Ugh. Yeah, that would be true. Digging through logs/e-mails @ >> berlios & RTS forums, seems that Qamly was to blame for this. >He is not _to blame_ for this. This was intended and decided by >most of the >devs. And even today I think that it was a good choice to change >the >container format.
Poor choice of words on my part. I should have said Qamly suggested a new format. > >> Looks like the GPL issue was either ignored, or they didn't look >at >> it close enough. :( >The latter I think. > >> His reason was we needed a format that was easy to >modify/change. >> Does anyone have whatever he used to convert the wdg files to >zip >> files? Someone must, since the map pack was made ? >There is a program named wdgexplorer for Windows I think. >That was used to get the data out of the wdg. The names of the >files were >craped then, since wdg uses IDs or hashes instead of names. >After the names had been restored it was ziped. > >Same applies for the map pack. Lot's of work that has to be done >by hand >because there is no automatism to do it. > >--Dennis I don't think that is the case. There was a utility involved to do the converting. I know I read it either in the logs or perhaps mailing list. Rodzilla or Coyote would know for sure though. I will ask them in a e-mail if the address I got for them is still valid. Concerned about your privacy? Instantly send FREE secure email, no account required http://www.hushmail.com/send?l=480 Get the best prices on SSL certificates from Hushmail https://www.hushssl.com?l=485 _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
