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== Function == | == Function == | ||
Not much is known about Weaver outside of interviews with developers<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chL_iGfo-h559vnR6ds_ZDnLWicZ48RYxFlf1wmV2aE/edit Interview with Brandon Davis, 3D artist on LEGO Island]</ref> and [[LEGO_Island_Versions#Korean_Release|recovered Weaver input files]]. It can be inferred that Weaver would take *.SS files, descriptors with C-like syntax of the files to be interleaved and their parameters, and produce SI files. | Not much is known about Weaver outside of interviews with developers<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chL_iGfo-h559vnR6ds_ZDnLWicZ48RYxFlf1wmV2aE/edit Interview with Brandon Davis, 3D artist on LEGO Island]</ref> and [[LEGO_Island_Versions#Korean_Release|recovered Weaver input files]]. It can be inferred that Weaver would take *.SS files, descriptors with C-like syntax of the files to be interleaved and their parameters, and produce "weaved" SI files for interleaved streaming from a disc. Weaver, Interleaf files, and SS files are all proprietary Mindscape tools, and while it was initially assumed they were only ever used for LEGO Island, Interleaf files were later discovered on another Mindscape title known as ''{{Wikipedia|Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat}}''. | ||
Weaver could be considered analogous to an archiving program like Tar. It doesn't perform any compression, but does collect several files into one while also structuring them into one contiguous file. | |||
== Example == | == Example == | ||