because this is to protect the contents of the file from pirating.
Normally, I would use a pak file. But its so crappy that I have to read in from the pak, save out, read in with blitz, then delete the temp..
If I could just load a file from a bank in blitz (say an image), then I could create a pak, load the file from the pak, and then use blitz to load it from the bank (never having to save it out again and reload it in again with blitz).
It may be small inconvienance with a 5 k file, but when your loading 20 5k files, all that disk access gets expensive and time consuming.
Thats why :-)
Normally, I would use a pak file. But its so crappy that I have to read in from the pak, save out, read in with blitz, then delete the temp..
If I could just load a file from a bank in blitz (say an image), then I could create a pak, load the file from the pak, and then use blitz to load it from the bank (never having to save it out again and reload it in again with blitz).
It may be small inconvienance with a 5 k file, but when your loading 20 5k files, all that disk access gets expensive and time consuming.
Thats why :-)