Originally Posted by Sonic

Downloaded it, but don't know how to open it...

It looks like this...

Originally Posted by Waldo_II

A better alternative than WinRar.
7-Zip.
Not only is it fast, but it also compresses and decompresses all sorts of file types, while being very small in size. It is completely free and open-source.

And using Rapidshare is a good idea to save money on bandwidth.

(If this is going to stay stickied, I suggest adding a reference to 7-Zip in the first post, for those, like Sonic, who don't know how to extract a .rar file.)

Originally Posted by WhiskeySix

sweet! great work trance!



Oh... I just remembered something - It's important to note that this will overwrite any custom maps you already might have. For example, if you already have the PoE2 map-pack, installing this will remove support for that. The pictures will all still be there, but the custom.xml file won't point to them. Be sure to rename/backup your custom.xml file before installing if you want to be able to support multiple map-packs.

(I just made a copy of my /Data/Custom.xml and renamed it /Data/PoE2-Custom.xml. Now when I want to switch back and forth, I just rename /Data/Custom.xml --> /Data/PR-Custom.xml and then /Data/PoE2-Custom.xml-->/Data/Custom.xml)

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. For example, the ZIP file format, which provides compression, also acts as an archiver, storing many source files in a single destination output file.

As with any communication, compressed data communication only works when both the sender and receiver of the information understand the encoding scheme. For example, this text makes sense only if the receiver understands that it is intended to be interpreted as characters representing the English language. Similarly, compressed data can only be understood if the decoding method is known by the receiver.

Compression is useful because it helps reduce the consumption of expensive resources, such as hard disk space or transmission bandwidth. On the downside, compressed data must be decompressed to be used, and this extra processing may be detrimental to some applications. For instance, a compression scheme for video may require expensive hardware for the video to be decompressed fast enough to be viewed as it's being decompressed (the option of decompressing the video in full before watching it may be inconvenient, and requires storage space for the decompressed video). The design of data compression schemes therefore involves trade-offs among various factors, including the degree of compression, the amount of distortion introduced (if using a lossy compression scheme), and the computational resources required to compress and uncompress the data.