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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon vengi-voxel

VOXELFORMAT: change the interface for the Format class to use Archives and not Streams

Open mgerhardy opened this issue 2 months ago • 0 comments

For multi file based formats it would be better to use an io::Archive here to being able to directly create new write streams in the archive and not write any files. Currently a lot of cases like io::filesystem()->open(extFilename, io::FileMode::SysWrite) exists in the Format implementations.

to name a few

  • VXL/HVA
  • VXR/VXM/VXA/png
  • Minecraft regions for dat files

there are other formats that out sourced their screenshot or metadata or anything like that.

See e.g. VMaxFormat::loadGroupsPalette - locations like these could benefit, too

Also see https://github.com/vengi-voxel/vengi/issues/434

mgerhardy avatar May 06 '24 19:05 mgerhardy