ValveResourceFormat

View commits since 0.1.1

GUI

• Implemented glTF exporting for models and meshes (see #232)
  • Models and meshes can be exported from vpk without opening it in the viewer
• Improved rendering for HemiOct normals
• Fixed GUI softlock when changing viewer background color
• Fixed a crash on some HL: Alyx maps

CLI

• Use invariant culture to fix exporting floats

Library

• Added a lot more known entity keys for HL: Alyx
• Added support for R32G32B32A32_FLOAT, R32_FLOAT, R16G16B16A16_SINT vertex attributes
• Added support for LegacySource1InvertNormals
• Fixed null bytes in closed captions
• Fixed a crash when there are no frames in an animation
• Removed MeshWriter

View commits since 0.1.1

GUI

• Ported to .NET Core, now built standalone as a single file binary
• Added root vpk node for easier extraction of entire vpk
• Added RGBA16161616F opengl format
• Added animation transform to error shader
• Added checkbox to toggle the grid in model viewer
• Implemented hemi-octohedron normal map projection
• Fixed alpha test discarding pure blacks (patchy models in HLVR)
• Fixed camera names crashing map viewer (uses targetname now)
• Continue extracting on decompiler exception
• Removed frustum culling in model viewer
• Disabled VPK checksum checks in extractor and renderer

CLI

• Allow opening binary KV3 files
• File types are now detected by reading the 4-byte magic instead of using file extension

Library

• Added NTRO marshalling for embedded physics and animation blocks
• Added ToolsAssetInfo to parse readonly_tools_asset_info.bin
• Added BC6H, BC7, ATI1N, and ATI2N textures decoding (thanks @lewa-j)
• Added export of hemi-octohedron normalmaps for DXT5 and BC7 (thanks @lewa-j)
• Added support for closed captions version 2
• Added support for sound bits used in HLVR
• Added R16G16_UNORM export
• Fixed extracting cubemap textures
• Fixed extracting particle data

View commits since 0.1.0

GUI

• Added "decompile & export" context menu option
• Improved map viewer
  • Added 3D skybox in the main map (HL:A enviroment city 17)
  • Added world camera controls
  • Batch opaque draw calls to further improve performance
  • No longer throw an exception for unsupported particles in world loader
• Allow saving custom camera positions
• Fixed animations not loading in model viewer
• Fixed hobgen underlord model animations
• Fixed water (and renderpasses in general) being broken
• Fixed embedded meshes not being filtered by LoD

CLI

• Added support for filtering by extension when collecting stats
• Removed particle classes stats dump

Library

• Handle entity properties that have string names included
• Add support for newer sound stack scripts (vndstck)
• Fixed sound "type 1" not working
• Added KeyValuesOrNTRO resource type

View commits since 0.0.16

GUI

• Rewritten renderer
  • Implemented octree based frustum culling in the map viewer (to improve performance)
  • Implemented basic draw call sorting for better transparency support
  • Each tab now contains its own OpenGL and cache contexts
  • When closing a renderer tab, memory should correctly clear out now
  • Added support for rendering embedded meshes in combined models (like void spirit)
  • Map viewer now supports model animations and particles
  • Map viewer now supports world layers
  • Model viewer now supports mesh groups
  • Removed overlay meshes from maps to fix z-fighting
  • Many fixes to our shaders (lighting, etc)
• Moved particle shaders to the shader loader
• Added an option to open file with the default Windows handler
• Added more file type icons
• Brought back support for rendering models with NTRO data blocks
• Switched binds Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+W around
• Console tab will now also show stderr messages

CLI

• Enabled native single file builds
• Fix dumping folders without --recursive (#177)

Library

• Added support for duplicate block names (#175)
  • This allows loading combined model files (like void spirit)
  • Blocks is now List<Block>
• Added decoding for R8G8B8A8_UNORM and R8G8B8A8_UINT (#181)
• Added support for ATI1N textures
• Moved MeshWriter.WriteObject from GUI to library code to dump VBIB
• Added Add Entity.GetProperty helper
• Added EntityLumpKeyLookup.Get (entity keys are murmur2 hashed with seed of 0x31415926)
• Added a huge list of known entity property names (from all fgd files) to improve EntityLump.ToString()

View commits since 0.0.15

Library

• Fixed mipmap size calculation
• Fixed NullReferenceException in vphys_c files
• Added fancier error texture
• Added support for BGRA8888 textures
• Added support for vsvg panorama files
• Added ValveResourceFormat.IO for file dumping purposes

GUI

• Fixed vr_standard vertex shader
• Improved particle rendering
• Reset audio position if its stopped

CLI

• Fixed calling vrf_decompiler from another working directory
• Added --version switch

View commits since 0.0.14

Library

• Support for the new format of the bitpackedsoundinfo
• Support for Closed-Captions (VCCD)
• Support for reading new compressed binary keyvalues3 (KV3\x01)
• Support for LZ4 compressed textures (COMPRESSED_MIP_SIZE)
• Support for ETC2 textures
• Support for meshoptimizer compressed vertex and index buffers (VBIB)
• Support for new KV3 based models/materials/etc
• Updated VTexFormat

GUI

• Use managed mp3 decoder instead of relying on Windows codecs
• Some basic particle rendering
• Added console tab
• Added hex and text viewers for unknown data
• Added various tab management options (close tabs to left, close to right, close all tabs)
• Added file export progress dialog when extracting folders
• Combined top toolbars into one

CLI

• Add simple stats dump for particle classes

View commits since 0.0.13

Library

• Implemented new binary keyvalues3 types and lz4 encoding
• Implemented support for new KV3 encoded models, skeletons, animations and maps
• Implemented FourVectors2D (Matrix2x4) type in NTRO

GUI

• Fixed model and map rendering for the latest Dota 2 updates

CLI

• Replaced command line parser library
• Added bat and linux scripts to launch dotnet

View commits since 0.0.12

Library

• Add support for AAC sounds
• Output proper dimensions for FillToPowerOfTwo DXT1 / DXT5 textures
• Perfect DXT5nm normalmaps output
• Implement decoding for all known texture formats

GUI

• Automatically open files that were opened with the app
• Implement recursive folder extraction
• Fix map renderer crashing
• Fix multiple issues in animation decoding and rendering
• New icon

View commits since 0.0.11

Library

• Moved animation code from GUI
• Use System.Numerics.Vectors instead of implementing these types ourselves

GUI

• Refactored camera in model/map viewer
• Added different render modes in model viewer
• Smoothed out animations in model viewer
• Open xxx_dir.vpk when opening numeric archives (like xxx_001.vpk)
• Updated OpenTK to 3.0.0-pre

View commits since 0.0.10

Library

• Ported to .NET Core
• Replaced System.Drawing with SkiaSharp

GUI

• Settings are now saved in settings.txt in keyvalues format
• Open and save dialog paths are now remembered separately
• Allow selecting vpks in content search paths
• Fixed animations glitching out
• Meshes now correctly write texcoords, normals and materials when exporting

Decompiler

• Ported to .NET Core
• Added --vpk_decompile, --vpk_extensions, --vpk_filepath for better filtering

View commits since 0.0.9

Library

• Package (vpk) has been split into a separate library ValvePak
• IndentedTextWriter is now self-implemented (preparing for .NET Core)
• Some progress on parsing .vcs shader files
• Unlock file writes on resources library opens

GUI

• Model animations in the renderer, thanks @Perryvw!
• Dropped 32-bit builds
• CTRL+W now closes currently active tab
• Partial folder extraction support
• Mesh to .obj export support
• Support for opening .vcs files

Decompiler

• Dropped 32-bit builds
• Dump .png and .jpg files from vpks

View commits since 0.0.6

Library

• Added valve font (VFONT1) decryption
• Initial shader parsing support (vcs)
• Initial EntityLump support

GUI

• Added map viewer
• Added export support for texture and panorama files
• Performance improvements

Known Bugs

• Some models crash due to incorrect animation file parsing, will be fixed in the next release

• Fixed nuget publishing
• Fixed assembly versions

View commits since 0.0.3

Library

• Added support for VBIB
• Added a FindEntry() API for VPK's
• VPK Signatures are now supported
• VPK v2 headers are now correctly handled
• Fixed BinaryKV3 reading after its block ended
• Panorama files are now correctly identified
• Speed improvements in converting DXT1 and DXT5 to bitmap

GUI

• Added a Model Viewer
• Added a Sound Player
• Added an app-wide export button (currently only does sound exports)
• Fixed a case where dragging multiple files of both SVF and non-SVF types could freeze the GUI
• Speed improvements when opening VPKs

Decompiler

• Added support for stat collection on VPK's
• Now collects stats on Sounds

View commits since 0.0.2

Library

• NTRO is now fully serialized
• KV3 is now fully serialized
• Now supports SoundEventScript
• Now supports ParticleScript
• Now partially supports Mesh

Decompiler

• Can now dump SoundEventScript files

GUI

• Can now save Texture images to Bitmap (BMP)
• Now correctly saves to TIFF #43

View commits since 0.0.1

Library

• Read panorama name entries into a list
• Read SmallData (preload bytes) in VPKs
• Fixed multiple cases when calculations could underflow
• Fixed reading pixel data in RGBA8888 texture format
• Fixed colour issues in textures that use DXT5 compression (converted YCgCo to RGBA)
• Partial support for texture formats 17, 18, 19
• Initial work on parsing particles

Decompiler

• Added --vpk_dir option to print vpk contents
• Log exceptions to a file for easier debugging

GUI

• Open non resource files in explorer on double click
• Black background colour when viewing textures
• Embedded asset type images
• Ability to search in open VPKs

This a preview of work in progress GUI to open Source 2 (Dota 2) resource files.

If anything breaks, please report an issue!