Cutting Hair File Size

[Theo]

Ah yes, I forgot my previous statement:

The XHTN resource has been replaced by a clothing-type COLL.

is not entirely correct, since it turns out that these two are unrelated to each other. The XHTN may still be needed, if you're using custom hairtone guids, while at the same time, you can use a custom COLL resource instead of the 'magic COLLs'.

I made a small diagram of the resource linking here: http://theos.chewbakkas.net/files/hair-problem.svg
See also if you agree with my proposal: http://theos.chewbakkas.net/files/hair-solution.svg

Regarding base game compatibility, I believe this referencing scheme is compatible, but it's just a matter of testing it with the base game starter, if you want to be sure.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Yup, I have Numenor's AnyGame and base game programs.  I'll test, just thought I would ask first, in case the answer was "it can safely be assumed to be compatible".  Probably better to be paranoid, assume nothing, and test.

I'm totally in favor of automatically splitting resources so that all resources associated with a certain age can be nuked without fear of breaking other ages.  That diagram is quite handy.  Right now, I clean hair packages by hand and with your binning tool.  Once I'm totally comfortable doing that, I'll write an automatic cleaner for Windoze and Mac.  After the duplicate TXTR remover is all finished, that is.  There's still some textures it doesn't recognize as identical, could be because of different compression schemes, as Pescado suggested.