larocket83 0 Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 If I'm ready to package a mod for download, and want to make it an exe, does it take a genius to make it, or is there a program similar to winzip that will do it for you? I wanted to do this instead of using a zip or rar file. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swartsz 7 Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 take a look in the recon section of this website, there is a installer tutorial made by Earl. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
larocket83 0 Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 okay thanks swartsz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swifty 0 Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 if you make it rar or zip then us mac users won't have to jump through hoops to play it.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dekela 0 Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 try install creator. it's free and really good cheers...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
larocket83 0 Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 (edited) swifty I'll make another in RAR form just for you and all those mac users out there. I got that install creator Dekela and it works really well, thanks. Edited December 12, 2003 by larocket83 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swifty 0 Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 sweet, thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
San 0 Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 WinZip has a utility that makes the zip a self-executable zip-file (EXE). Same as for WinRar and WinAce. Good thing is you can still open the EXE's in WinZip to extract mannually. You can see where they will go, or select only a part to be extracted. No Windows-registries ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 I'm just wondering.... The size of my upcoming mod will be huge (it'll have new voice acting - .wav files take up a large amount of space!). If the size of it is huge, then I will split it into separate parts, so you would need to download both parts in oder to be able to play the mod (the reason is, for the 56k'ers - i know what it's like downloading these mods that are huge in size; i'm on 56k....also it makes it easier to upload to my webspace for me). Anyways, more to the point. I'm gonna put the mod into a ClickTeam self installer. I know the self installer compresses the contents the files inside, but if I then put the self installer inside a WinAce archive (I got WinAce - I used it for my previous mods) would it get compressed even more? I hope so, cuz WinAce compresses the files down helluva alot.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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