View Full Version : Where is the 7z extension?


phungus420
Sep 03, 2009, 03:43 AM
How did you guys compress the mod into a 7z format that self extracts? Where did you get this? It looks like you get a far better compression rate from 7z. While that in itself isn't that useful for me because I'd like to keep my mod using a click and play installer, with the self extracting extension you guys use, I should be able to incorperate it into the NSIS install script. Basically NSIS will let you run executables inside it's archive, so I think I can compile the install script, then have it run the self extracting 7z archive to extract out the assets, which based on the size of your mod might be able to double the compression rate. So where is this self extracting 7zip aplication you guys are using?

Lord Tirian
Sep 03, 2009, 04:16 AM
So where is this self extracting 7zip aplication you guys are using?I'm not packing the files for DW, but I'm pretty sure they're using 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) for it. If you create an archive, there's somewhere a little checkbox for "SFX Archive", that will do the trick

Cheer, LT.