MultiZip Tutorial

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Here's a tutorial for new users of MultiZip, that great zip program that can zip multiple files in one operation. The only option described here will be for the basic feature of zipping multiple files, such as .rwx object files for worlds in AW universes. This tutorial assumes the user is already familiar with using WinZip (or any other zip program that creates .zip format files) and has that program installed on their PC.

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First, you have to grab a copy of the MultiZip program from Andras' great world owners help page here:

Once you have downloaded MultiZip, extract the multizip.exe and the zipdll.dll files into their own folder. Next, open the new folder and double click the multizip.exe file and you will get the following screen:

Zipping Multiple Files:

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In the left side Windows Explorer screen, double click the C:\ folder on top then scroll down to open the WINDOWS folder and then open the Desktop folder (if that's where you have the folder with the unzipped files). Find the folder inside Desktop that you have your unzipped files in and open that last. Here's what that looks like with a folder called models on your desktop:

You'll see listed in the center section all the files in your folder as shown above. The window at bottom center allows you to tell MultiZip what file type you are looking for in your folder (.rwx is the default). Next, click on the "Select All" button shown at the center top (if there are files you don't want zipped in that folder, you'll have to select each file in there that you do want zipped) and they will turn color to show what's selected.

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Next, you'll want to select what folder you want MultiZip to place the zipped versions in and you can do that in the right column by repeating the Windows Explorer navigation described previously. I usually just zip them back into the same folder they are in so this is what that will look like:

Here's where you must now decide if you will be password protecting the files, as in when world owners purchase models from 3D artists and they have asked that their work be protected. All you do is type in your world's object password in the Password: window directly below the right side Windows Explorer screen. You may skip that step if you're not password protecting the files you are zipping. Last step, click on the big PROCEED! button in the center bottom of the screen and you're done! : )