| Bugreport | Priority None; State Open; SimPE Version 0.66.2.38582; Operating System Windows XP Pro |
| pljones |  posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:47 pm | |
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| Mootilda, you can tell SimPE not to save packed files with compression, though I don't know whether that affects the overall packaging. The flag is on the "Resource" tab (where you change the instance). |
| Inge Jones | posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:55 pm | |
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| Flagged for another look. |
| Inge Jones | posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:33 pm | |
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| bump |
| Mootilda | posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:18 pm | |
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| pljones wrote: Mootilda, you can tell SimPE not to save packed files with compression, though I don't know whether that affects the overall packaging. The flag is on the "Resource" tab (where you change the instance). Unfortunately, this isn't helpful for me. I'm not using the SimPE UI... I'm using the internal function calls via .NET. |
| Inge Jones | posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:26 pm | |
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| So to test the idea you would need to be able to pass an argument that specifies "uncompressed" ? |
| Mootilda | posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:20 pm | |
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| Is it the GeneratableFile::Build function which does the compression? If so, a boolean to compress or not would be all I'd need to test this. More generally, it would be interesting to compare the versions of the various non-game specific records, such as the header, the index table, and the hole table before and after SimPE attempts to write the SC4 package. If the write is updating these versions, it may be updating to a version which SimCity doesn't recognize. |
| pljones | posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:34 pm | |
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| There's a boolean on the file descriptor indicating whether to compress or not ("IsCompressed", I think). |
| pljones | posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:05 am | |
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| Random notes... MarkForReCompress -- Returns/sets if this File should be Recompressed during the next Save Operation WasCompressed -- Returns true if the Resource was Compressed IsCompressed -- ((headersize!=0) && (Signature==SimPe.Data.MetaData.COMPRESS_SIGNATURE)) --- SimPe writes package files with major version=1, minor version=1; SC4 files have minor version=0. --- Doing a "before and after" compare between the content of an SC4 file and the package as saved by SimPe - with "no changes" - shows the two to be very different. I don't know how much effort would be required to make SimPe also able to write SC4 files but, at the moment, it seems it can read them but only writes .package files. |
| Inge Jones | posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:56 am | |
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| Mootilda, given what Peter has said, and that ideally at this stage he needs to focus on the Sims 3 tools, we'd like to know whether this feature is important to you at this time or whether you are reasonably comfortable with whatever workarounds you are already using? |
| Mootilda | posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:57 am | |
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| I haven't had a lot of time for the sims lately, so I suppose that you will just have to consider this closed / postponed. It may require a large amount of research to determine what the format is. At this time, there is no known workaround for this problem. I just gave up on providing the feature (to extract SC4 files from TS2 neighborhood package, so that people could edit existing neighborhood terrains). |
