How do you get a mod to be a SDZ/sd7?

[Abokasee]

How do you get a mod to be a SDZ/sd7? because i'm having trouble trying to that, do you even need to do that?

[zwzsg]

- You zip the mod and renamed it into *.sdz
- You 7-zip the mod and renamed it into *.sd7

zip is a pretty standard archive format, so you probably already have an archiver handling them. For 7-zip, download and install http://www.7-zip.org Oh and make sure to NOT tick "solid archive".

If you don't want to pack your mod, you can put all the files of your mod into a /yourmodnamehere.sdd/ folder. This is great for developping and bug testing. However, if you ever release such an unpacked mod, I will be very angry.

[Guessmyname]

The reason he will be abgry is that un-compressed/packed mods will have very large filesizes, when this could easily be lowered by packing into sdz/sd7

[KDR_11k]

You'd zip it for distribution anyway but I think sdds greatly increase the load time of SpringSP.

[bwansy]

"solid archive"

I'm just curious. What does it mean?

[Abokasee]

- You zip the mod and renamed it into *.sdz
- You 7-zip the mod and renamed it into *.sd7

So I just put .sdz at the end?

[rattle]

Yeah.

.ZIP = .SDZ
.7Z = .SD7

Wasn't there some other setting spring didn't like about 7zip other than solid archives? I remember having troubles in the past with any compression algorithm other than bzip2. I could be wrong though.

[zwzsg]

"solid archive"

I'm just curious. What does it mean?

Create Solid archive
Enables or disables solid mode. In solid mode all files will be compressed as one continuous data stream. Usually compressing to solid archive improves compression ratio. You can use this option only for 7z archives. With current version of 7z you can update existing archives only when solid mode is switched off. Updating solid archives also is not supported in current version

But you don't need to know what does "solid archive" actually mean. All you have to know is that Spring doesn't handle solid archives, and so this should be unticked. Other default settings are fine, but "solid" is ticked by default and must be unticked.

[elliotkr]

Actually, I've never had a problem with leaving the solid archive option on. I only get problems if I try to compress the 7z file too much, which is a waste of time anyways, unless you're ziping it for distrobution.

bwansy - A solid archive is an archiving method used in programs like 7zip where, when ziping multiple files, it treats all the files as one single data block. But yeah, if it's giving you problems (you'll see the option when making an archive if you're using 7zip) then just shut it off.