True but it's just like with copy protections which still are used and get more and more developed and more and more cause trouble for everyone. So although there is some truth about it even surplus things seem to be staying...
I think the most important thing about the packer is the look of professionality. If you have your ressources packed it has a more professional touch as if you have hundreds of files flying around...

But as you mention "capturing shaders" can you really "capture" that and I don't mean hacking the encrypted file and read out its sourcecode. I've never heard of such a possibility...

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yes, these tools can also get the shaders but you won't get hlsl code but assembler code.

i think a filepacker could be done quite easily with add_buffer and some free zip library (with encryption support).

Thx - didn't know you could read that out too...
A filepacker plugin (especially one with the possibility to do small patches that update only certain files) would be something I'd even pay for. With that said there's Lion_TS packer but I don't know if it still works with A7...

Oh and thanks to all Pro users who voted on the poll...

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