[ODE] ODE GUI Editor #2...

[John Miles]

Well, you need to read the text files as well as export them, for the
reasons mentioned earlier (manual or XML-automated editing of many similar
items).

Maya does this right, IMHO, with their .ma ASCII and .mb binary files.  When
you get tired of long load times, you switch from .ma to .mb.  If you need a
text version later on, you can still read and write it, even if it's (by
then) a few hundred megabytes in size.

BillyZ is right, though, in that overengineering is the real peril.

-- jm


> Just to make sure we're all on the same page - there's no need to remove
> the binary support, I was only suggesting the addition of some
> text-based export utility.  As someone mentioned before it is easy to
> compress text files to a fraction of their size, but I am not trying to
> start an XML/Text vs binary debate - I'm saying it would be good to have
> both!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will.