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Media => Mapping Center => Topic started by: rdizzle on May 02, 2007, 06:34:46 pm

Title: Utility for zipping your maps on a Mac.
Post by: rdizzle on May 02, 2007, 06:34:46 pm

Clean archiver, makes zips without including all the .DS_store OSX folder information files that prevent your maps from working when you pack them.

http://www.sopht.jp/cleanarchiver/downloads.html

Title: Utility for zipping your maps on a Mac.
Post by: Caveman on May 02, 2007, 11:18:00 pm

Why would one want to compress the maps that are already in zip-format?
pk3=zip

Title: Utility for zipping your maps on a Mac.
Post by: rdizzle on May 03, 2007, 02:31:46 am

This is for map development.  You need to pack your bsp and gunk in a zip renamed pk3.

Of course, if you thought about it for ten seconds you would have realized what I'm talking about.  This is a mac only issue for those of us who are developing maps.  It has nothing to do with further compressing a pk3.

On macs, directories have hidden .ds_store and other ._ files that store display and meta information for the directory.  When you zip a directory with OSX's default archiver, those hidden files are added as well.  Now, understand, that quake/trem will flip out at a pk3 with .ds_store files and will not be able to recognize your map.

So all this is, is a zip archiver that cleans out the .ds_store files.  Makes life simpler.

Get it?  Or do i need to draw you a diagram?

/set flame +scalding

Title: Utility for zipping your maps on a Mac.
Post by: Caveman on May 03, 2007, 12:02:04 pm

A diagramm would be nice :)
Up until now I really thought the user was in charge of what he places inside a zip.

Ok I was wrong, sorry :P

Title: Utility for zipping your maps on a Mac.
Post by: doomagent13 on May 05, 2007, 04:17:28 am

They are--anything beginning with a '.' is just hidden. (unseeable with normal window viewer)