Re: Blastbay Studios Open Source Libraries
@20 A lot of questions there, so let me start with the ones that relate to libraries as that's what this topic is meant to be all about.
For packs, I recommend using something like PhysicsFS. It is a nice library which behaves like a virtual file system, but using archives underneath. The BGT pack file format had some severe shortcomings so I would not go with it when making new projects. If you have old data that you want to reuse, extract it using BGT and then repackage it into a format that PhysicsFS can understand.
As for encryption, I personally use libtomcrypt. It is an excellent library and is very easy to get up and running with.
As for all the why's and why not's of the design behind BGT, there were a lot of things that could have been done differently, for better or worse. Since I no longer support it, I don't really see the need to address all the hypothetical cases relating to various features and why they worked a certain way etc. The idea here is to move forward, and that's what I am trying to do with this topic. If you have ideas for libraries that you'd like to see, feel free to bring them up and I'll consider them. If you then want to wrap mine and other people's libraries in AngelScript, by all means go ahead.
@21 There is a library called Tonic on Github which does what the tone synth did and then some. It's not really being maintained anymore, but there are enough useful nuggets in there for it to be a useful library still.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
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