Author Topic: Can i package all these haks into one hak?  (Read 328 times)

Legacy_Builder_Anthony

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Can i package all these haks into one hak?
« on: October 21, 2011, 06:23:32 am »


               The link below takes you to all my haks but one set of those haks requires 7 zip to unzip them.I want players to be able to just download one big hak but i dont know if they can if it needs that 7zip thing.Im just tryen to make it easy for players to download.Any ideas?All the haks are neatly listed in the first post.

http://social.biowar...9/index/4993877
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Alex Warren

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Can i package all these haks into one hak?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2011, 11:41:53 am »


               7z is quite popular format and many well known file compression programs (like winzip, winrar etc) can unpack those files without problems. Of course you can use 7-Zip to create/unpack those file - it's free and there are versions for Windows and Linux (very good program imho).
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Builder_Anthony

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Can i package all these haks into one hak?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 03:15:31 pm »


               so all my haks can be combined into one hack and extracted in one mouse click?Id like to create that self instaler but im not sure if i can with the current haks.
               
               

               


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Legacy_Bannor Bloodfist

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Can i package all these haks into one hak?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 08:37:51 pm »


               I think you actually mean "One Archive" not "One hak" as they are completely separate things in relation to NWN.

Yes, you could create one archive file.  You would have to upload the resulting file to the Vault FTP site, as it would likely be too large for a single upload to your download page.  (you are limited to 20-25 meg I think).  

As to self extracting... best bet (way to do it) would be to create a set of sub-folders on your computer that looks like your nwn folders but only contains the files you need inside it, then archive those complete with folder structure.  

As far as I know, NONE of the archive programs actually create a self-installer, they only create self-extractors.  IE, they will store sub-folder structures, and re-create those on extraction but they will not actually tell windows anything about the files, or make registry entries etc.. which is what an installer actually does.