nisen Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Hey ive got a large mod ill be uploading soon and noticed theres a fair difference in compression rates between .fomod and .rar Using fomods default compression its 5% better than rars highest setting, and think Fomm has a few better compression settings aswell. does anyone know how FOMMs so freakin good at archiving that it stands up a veteran like Rar? and with the whole NMM changeover, ive seen several comments people have uninstalled FOMM when they installed it, so thered be a problem if i upload this mod as a .fomod and people wanted to extract it (cause some of the files double as utilities) without having the program installed anymore. Itll also include a fomod script, but doesnt need to be in .fomod comments, Bueller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luthienanarion Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 FOMOD is not a file compression algorithm. It's just a file extension. You can change the extension of any .zip, .7z, or .rar file to .fomod and FOMM will read it. If you look at your FOMM settings, you can change the compression algorithm the program uses to created its archives from folders. The default is SevenZip at the highest compression level. NXMM reads .fomod archives (in any format) just as well as FOMM does, so that is not an issue. If you want people to be able to easily extract your archive, just use 7zip or WinRAR to make the archive instead of FOMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisen Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) hey Substitute Stunt-Double, I didnt think itd be possible to change the extension and fomm would load other file types, good to know ok i see what you mean, it uses 7zip, thats the algorithym used thanks for the tip, just tried changing the extension of the .fomod to .rar, and winrar extracts it as normal, problem solved Edited March 6, 2012 by nisen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisen Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 One other question here about .7z, I know rar files can be extracted by several archivers that cant actually create rars, but how about 7z ? is it common to be able to extract those with more standard archivers (im not really sure what the standard ones are) and if its not common are there any known issues change file extensions, like to change a 7z to rar before uploading it (also, downloaded the 7z program and noticed its got one advantage over changing fomod to rar, that method eats up the first folder in the archive, the one the files named along with the conversion, so extracting it as a rar only spits out the subfolders, not sure why, whereas changing 7z to rar doesnt eat it up, extracts exactly the same) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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