Easy Filesystem Initialization

[eXodus]

This is a simple function that will add all of the .ZIP files found in the "data" directory to the Irrlicht's file system. I usually place it in a FileSystem.h header file.

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#pragma once

#include <irrlicht.h>
using namespace irr;
using namespace core;
using namespace io;

void initializeFileSystem(IrrlichtDevice * device)
{
	IFileSystem * fs = device->getFileSystem();
	fs->changeWorkingDirectoryTo("data");

	IFileList * fl = fs->createFileList();
	for(int i = 0; i < fl->getFileCount(); i++)
	{
		if(!fl->isDirectory(i))
		{
			// Only load ".zip" files
			stringc fn(fl->getFileName(i));
			if(fn.size() > 3)
			{
				stringc ext(fn.subString(fn.size() - 3, 3));
				if(ext.equals_ignore_case("zip"))
					fs->addZipFileArchive(fl->getFileName(i));
			}
		}
	}
	fl->drop();

	fs->changeWorkingDirectoryTo("..");
}

This is a time saver! Fell free to criticize.

[Guest]

I made something like this a while ago for my app, always very helpful to use

what I would reccomend is having it pull the info from an xml file or something, what the directory is u want to check for zips, and the file extension u want to use. then instead of using 3 always for file extension, counting the amount of characters in the file extenstion specified

now, what would be awesome is if files loaded from one directory would overwrite the other ingame.....