Module assembly_pack::pk

Available on crate feature pk only.

The pack (*.pk) files

The game stores most of its resources in custom zip file variants which are called Pack files. These contain a sequence of possibly compressed file streams and an index of all contained files streams at the end of the file.

Pack files do not contain the actual names of the contained files, but the index is layed out by the CRC value of the respective filenames, so it is trivial to find the correct data for any given filename.

When the game was in operation, players could choose between Full Download, setting up the complete PKs at load, and While Playing, where the resource manager would try to locate a file in the PKs, and load it from the content delivery network if it wasn’t found.

The file would then be added to the appropriate PK file, as specified in the PKI (Pack-Index) file.

Modules

• file
  The structures as the appear in the file
• fs
  Interact with PK files in the file system
• parser
  Parsing functions
• reader
  Low level reader for PK files
• writer
  Write PK files