[sldev] Re: SLDev Digest, Vol 18, Issue 113

[Lawson English]

Random Unsung wrote:
> Soft, I understand your desire to keep this list on topic, and to deal 
> with "only technical matters". But it's simply not true that these 
> issues are "merely technical" and as we can see abundantly on the 
> texture issue, there are different schools of technological thinking 
> on these things.
>
> Of course it's possible to obfuscate textures, it's done all the time, 
> and worlds like World of Warcraft or There obviously follow that practice.
I don't know about There,  but the Worlds of Warcraft textures 
apparently are NOT encrypted or obfuscated.

They DO use their own proprietary format, but it is well-documented:


http://www.wowwiki.com/BLP_Files


Lawson