paths dont work in zip files...

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 8:13 am

ive been having some trouble...
i use the MD3 loader in my project to load up md3 models for players, inside the pk3 archive, the models each have a folder for each player, and then 3 mesh files, head.md3, lower.md3, and upper.md3

the trouble is, that every player has the same named files. the obvious solution one would think is to enable paths when i do the addZipFileArchive("somefile.zip",true,false); and then specify the path when i load the mesh, like scenemgr->getMesh("/models/playername/lower.md3");

but it doesnt work!! it says file not found and dies on me. i tried it with and without the leading slash, but no difference. so if i turn the paths back off, and try to load up more than one model, they both get the same mesh!! because the addZipFileArchive call thinks it already has that file, so ignores the new one....

is there anything i can do about this? if not i guess i can repackage the pk3's im using and make it like playername-lower.md3 and rename them...
but i'd rather the paths worked of course!!
-Ted

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:29 am

wow, its been a whole day, i would thought id get a response by now....
hasnt anybody else even heard of this problem before??? or at least thought about it?

maybe its just me....
-Ted

deps · Post by **deps** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 3:20 am

I have the same problem. But no solution. I just turn paths off and hopes for the best.

(i dont have any models or textures with the same name)

niko · Post by **niko** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:57 am

Hi,
They way adding .zip or .pk3 archives to the file system is done in Irrlicht is not very optimal for using it they way you need. I'll have to rewrite the part of Irrlicht, I think. And I have no temporarily solution for this. Maybe you could change the parts of the loader to fit it to your needs until this is fixed.

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:50 pm

well i will certainly try and see if i can fix it, but i did have a look at the code and im not sure in completely understand how it works to begin with, but i will do my best of course.

also, niko, i have a few little things i would like to submit to you for possible inclusion in 0.5
how do you prefer to receive such code contributions, email?
-Ted

niko · Post by **niko** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:19 pm

Email is best, yes. Just send it to irrlicht@users.sourceforge.net

Irrlicht Engine

paths dont work in zip files...

paths dont work in zip files...

geez...little help??

ok, i will try i suppose but i dunno...