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3 Dimensional Chat / whats the difference between saving in binary code and saving in other ways?

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JaJDoo
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 14:06
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zircher
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 21:41 Edited at: 19th Jan 2004 21:43
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Binary can be more compact than text. Also, there is no need for a text parser to convert any data back into its binary format. On the other hand, I'm a big fan of text save files since they are easier to trouble shoot. Once you write one text parser, it is easy to re-use that code on other projects. When I want security, I either apply a cypher or I can zip them up and password protect them.
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Mussi
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dunno if your explanation aply's to this but I think he meant whats the differnce between exporting a model in binary format and in text format.



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zircher
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Posted: 20th Jan 2004 00:46 Edited at: 20th Jan 2004 05:12
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It could be. But, I'm not a freaking telepath.

Same comments apply in general, binary models are difficult to edit and are smaller. Text is easier to read, but requires parsing (and is thus slower to load.) Once in memory, they are exactly the same size.
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Binary is rather 0 or 1. It is what all computers use. it is the most basic code. 0 off, 1 on. It is that basic.
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Preston C
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@Transworld: Wrong kind of binary buddy. He's referring to the Binary and Text formats of the DirectX .X file format.

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Ooops... hehe sorry.
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Phaelax
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Here's some notes from one of my classes.

Streams - a flow of data between memory and a i/o source

text file - consists of characters, readable without parsing/conversion

binary file - data is stored in the file as byte instead of characters. More efficient for moving data between memory and a file

Here's a further example of binary files.
12345 is stored in a text file as "1","2","3","4","5"
12345 is stored in a binary file as 00 00 48 57 (hex equivalent of decimal 12345)

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