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Protecting car & track content.

INTRODUCTION

Buildar is a small tool that can help you protect your models. It generates an archive (with the extension .ar) which you can only generate, but not uncompress/unzip. Not only does this protect the contents, it also loads a bit faster.

DOWNLOAD

Normally Buildar is already contained within the latest beta release. Alternatively download only Buildar itself here (v1.1; 15Kb; Windows only).

USAGE

Buildar can be used to generate .ar files for both cars & tracks. Note that currently (20-10-06, v0.5.3 beta 3.0) only DOF files can be stored in .ar files succesfully.

The general command is: buildar <archive> <file1> [<file2>...]

Patterns are accepted since Buildar v1.1 (just run buildar.exe to get version and usage information), so you can for example run: 'buildar data.ar *.dof' to just add all DOF files.

The .ar filename is hardcoded into Racer and should be data.ar for cars and track.ar for tracks.

NOTES

Some implementation notes:

• Running buildar twice on the same archive will recreate the archive (so create the archive in one go).
• Files in the directory take precedence over those in the archive, so make sure to move the stored DOF files out of the way after putting them into the archive (but keep them as a backup in case you need to have access to them later!).

(last updated November 13, 2012 )