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y-lan

Peasant
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Registered: Sat 17 Nov 2001 7:55

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"I want to make a great mpq !" , Sat 17 Nov 09:05

Ok, excuse me I'm french !

I want to explain all my problem and maybe someone will have
a solution.

I have made a campaign with a lot of wav files and I don't want to use maps but.chk files in a mpq file and all wav files in this mpq, I've named my chk files, protoss01,..., terran 01,...
So I can use the splash screen and the three character to
select mission.

But the problem is to make the mpq:

- First I would use Win MPQ but this program can't compress as well as staredit the wav files ! More this program always crash when I want to open a mpq file which is bigger than 5 MB.
- Second I want to use stardraft which is more easy because we can make 1 path for more files but today I have a mpq files
from 72 MB with more than 150 files and when I want to add a
wav files it always crash. So I says myself, I can make a
second little mpq files in which are files that I can't make
in the big mpq. And if the first mpq replace patch_rt when I make an exe with starexehack, and files in this mpq are playing when I'm playing I Starcraft.
But I have attched the second mpq to the exe wih starexehack 1.07 and when I'm playing in using my exe, files in this second mpq are not playing (wav, chk and pcx files) Why ? where is the interest to can attach an mpq to an exe if files in this are not used.

I have made an error ?

I'm in the shit ! I have find zero solution to complete my campaign.

Can someone help me ?

Thanks for your solutions !

I'm Y-lan I'm a Y'sG member !

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DAE

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Registered: Tue 11 Dec 2001 20:2

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"Re(1):I want to make a great mpq !" , Wed 12 Dec 00:46

i dont know about winMPQ but MPQ2K has special compression for wav files to make them nice and small, ive never used it myself and dont know how well it will work, but its worth a try

Sir Galahad

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Registered: Tue 18 Sep 2001 4:13

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"Re(1):I want to make a great mpq !" , Tue 20 Nov 04:23

The best thing you could do right now is to keep an eye on the CamSys news page (http://www.camsys.org/) to see when MPQDraft will appear and then use that program instead.

Sir Galahad
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Campaignjunkie

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Registered: Sun 22 Jul 2001 14:4

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"Re(2):I want to make a great mpq !" , Sat 24 Nov 16:20

Make all your sounds 22550 khz, 8 bit (instead of 16 bit).

There is no difference in sound quality (usually), and it practically cuts sizes in half.

Another note: Staredit v1.08 DOES NOT compress sound files.

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