Tutorial using CI 8.0.0

[mikey26]

cool stuff mate....very painful getting almost to end and error and have to restart again thank god for my spare converting pc goes fairly quick..

[Born_inSANE]

Running those commands off bat files made 35MB file to 36MB after running both precomp and srep.
After that I just used drag'n'drop on precomp.exe and srep.exe,then those files went from 35MB to 15.8MB after running precomp and it stayed the same after srep using both .exe.
Was everything right there ?And what next if everything is right ?

After using bat method I got a file close to 11Mb but is this right ?
http://imagebay.us/images/4o0rxnq0smu4cfsezyu_thumb.png

And the version made using .exe is this http://imagebay.us/images/8uqkxcjl8aifri9g0xi5_thumb.png and I believe that its right,So which one is right ?


Sorry for so many posts though.

[BAMsE]

Born_inSANE if you're running process with -c- parameter, the output file will be bigger and better srepped due to using no compression.
If you're running process via drag'n'drop on exe it uses default -cb compression on output file so it'll be smaller but worse srepped
the right choice is -c- and bigger output

BTW: when I told about drag'n'drop few posts above I mean drag'n'drop to bat file, not exe

[Born_inSANE]

Thanks BAMse.Now I compressed the Data1.srep using freearc,and after compression the Data1.arc had few files that are meant to be compressed and the Data1.srep in it ,so should I delete Data1.srep or not ?

[BAMsE]

Born_inSANE data1.srep must be compressed to data1.cab not data1.arc.
Your directory probably contains both data1.arc and data1.srep while compressing srep file, so it was added to existed data1.arc.

Finally data1.cab must contain data1.srep ONLY

[mikey26]

Hi BAMse thanks again for all the help got it working perfect (precomp and srep). just one thing after precomp finishes running it giving a suggestion on commands to use in srep should they be used eg: -zl11,68 -d1.other than that i have yener's awesome script and precomp with srep working perfect for me.


Dont worry sorted it out stupid mistake

[BAMsE]

Originally Posted by mikey26

commands to use in srep should they be used eg: -zl11,68 -d1

No no. These parameters are for precomp if you are precomping THIS file once again. Using them speeds up the process

[Born_inSANE]

How to compress Data.srep to Data.cab ?
And I tried putting few images(Resized and renamed) in setup.cab but they aren't showing up,is this because of wrong compression(I compressed them using freearc and renamed to*.cab)

[pakrat2k2]

the setup.cab is used by CI 8*, to display the images etc, NOT for your game archives.

you create a m0 ( no compression archive, for your game ) then you precomp that file, which will end up bigger then original archive, then srep the output file from precomp, finally re-archive the output srep file with whatever compression you want. ALL filenames must have same prefix, IE use data.arc then data. - - - for both precomp & srep. At the very end you can specify the final filename output as either *.arc/cab/bin whatever you want to call it, could even be mnbvhgoewe... the name + extension is up to you. Just make sure that the script knows what filename+extension its supposed to look for.

As for the images NOT showing up its because the setup.cab file MUST use either winrar or 7-zip to add / replace images in it. First lines on page 1 of this topic.

Here is a big tutorial for my CI (C Custom I Installer) 8:
Required files for the installation..... ( next line ) tells you what setup.cab is & how to edit it.

[Born_inSANE]

I have compiled the script and got mygame.exe , couple of setup.bin files at 2.01GB and at first run its asking for disc 1,did I make any mistake ?

[mikey26]

@Born inSANE edit your setup.ini it should look something like this if your used precomp and srep.

[InstallOptions]
ApplicationName=Dirty Showdown
Publisher=Codemasters
MyExecutableName=showdown.exe
MyExecutablePath=
SaveGameFolder=
GameSize=9646
Lang=de,en,es,fr,it
LangUI=0
PrecompVer=0.42
Editor=yener90

[InstallSettings]
GDFBinary=game_gdf.dll

[ExtractSettings]
FreeArcFile1 = {src} \ Data1.bin; DestDir: {app}; Disk: 1; PrecSrep:1
FreeArcFile1 = {src} \ Data2.bin; DestDir: {app}; Disk: 1; PrecSrep:1

Leave out PrecSrep:1 if your just used freearc

[Born_inSANE]

Got this error IsDone.dll.I compressed this way data.arc---->data.pcf------>data.srep,and at last compressed data.srep with winzip and renamed it asa data.cab and compiled it.

[Born_inSANE]

I just removed
[ExtractSettings]
FreeArcFile1 = {src} \ Data1.bin; DestDir: {app}; Disk: 1; PrecSrep:1
FreeArcFile1 = {src} \ Data2.bin; DestDir: {app}; Disk: 1; PrecSrep:1

from the script and and ran .exe, it extracted the Data1.arc and Data2.arc which had srep files in them.

[mikey26]

@Born_inSANE u need to compress the data.srep with freearc not winzip.use the setting
[ExtractSettings]
FreeArcFile1 = {src} \ Data1.bin; DestDir: {app}; Disk: 1; PrecSrep:1
FreeArcFile1 = {src} \ Data2.bin; DestDir: {app}; Disk: 1; PrecSrep:1

just replace data1.bin with what eva your cab file is called.

[Born_inSANE]

Now it installed but the o/p folder has Data.arc with Data.srep in it,what happened exactly ?