CFBRevamped SDK v1.3.6.1

Small release, fixes themes and accents colors while adding more.

CFBRevamped SDK v1.3.6

We are excited to roll out ASTra v1.3.6, completely revamping the visual experience with our new dynamic Theme System and Settings interface!

🎨 New Features

Dynamic Theme Framework

• ThemeManager Introduced: The static UI styling has been rebuilt into a dynamic, runtime-swappable theme engine.
• Three Core Themes:
  • Dark (Default): The deep, focused dark mode you're used to.
  • Dark Blue: A cool, slightly tinted dark mode for reduced eye strain.
  • Light (Experimental): A bright, high-contrast theme for sunlit environments.
• Custom Accent Colors: Personalize your workspace! You can now swap the primary accent color of the SDK to Blue, Orange, Green, or Purple.
• Zero-Restart Swapping: Changing your theme or accent color applies instantly across the entire application without needing to restart the SDK.

Settings UI

• New Settings Dashboard: The placeholder Settings tab in the Hub has been fully populated.
• Persistent Preferences: Added a unified SettingsController that seamlessly saves your Appearance configurations to the system registry, ensuring your chosen theme persists across sessions.

Interface & Quality of Life

• Global Version Badges: The updater badge [Pre-release Build] / [Update Available] has been ported from the Game Library into the Home and Settings dashboards. You can now check for updates or see your current version directly from any tab.
• Consistent Styling: Removed hundreds of hardcoded inline styles in the C++ codebase, centralizing them in astra_theme.qss.
• Polished Dropdowns: Cleaned up the rendering of combo-boxes and drop-downs across the UI to look more native to the selected theme.

🐛 Known Bugs

-Themes dont work as good for some reason will be fixed later, accent colors work fine, will add more later.

CFBRevamped SDK v1.3.5

Overview

This release focuses on improving performance and responsiveness when working with large AST archives. CFBRevamped SDK now uses background indexing and true lazy loading to reduce startup times and eliminate unnecessary parsing.

🚀 Changes

Background Indexing

• File trees now populate immediately instead of waiting for full asset analysis.
• Archive indexing runs in the background using QtConcurrent.
• Added progress tracking through QFutureWatcher.

True Lazy Loading

• Heavy asset parsing is now deferred until needed.
• APT XML generation only occurs when entering edit mode.
• DDS, APT, DAT, and RSF files are decoded on demand instead of during loading.

🧪 Validation

• ✅ Successful build via CMake
• ✅ All gf_tests.exe checks passed
• ✅ 875 assertions passed
• ✅ Existing APIs remain fully compatible

This update continues improving CFBRevamped SDK's foundation for handling large archives efficiently and lays the groundwork for future modding workflows.

CFBRevamped SDK v1.1.0

v1.1.0 — Foundation & Performance

Theme: Build a faster, more scalable foundation for the CFBRevamped SDK.

This release completes a major architectural refactor focused on improving performance, stability, and long-term scalability. The archive pipeline has been modernized, bottlenecks removed, and the codebase is now prepared for future editing and visualization features.

Highlights

Performance & Infrastructure

• Refactored archive loading pipeline
• Added persistent archive manifest/index system (.astraindex)
• Implemented lazy asset loading
• Added memory-mapped archive support
• Added background archive indexing
• Added thumbnail and metadata caching
• Added asset hashing for faster search and validation
• Improved logging, diagnostics, and benchmarking tools
• Refactored archive management and asynchronous loading
• Reduced duplicate parsing and removed legacy bottlenecks

Validation & Stability

• Resolved all 8 failing unit tests introduced during modernization
• gf_tests now passes at 100%
  • 847 assertions
  • 78 test cases
• Fixed AST container generation with strict byte-alignment handling
• Corrected DDS parser validation and updated invalid test fixtures
• Improved APT display list test coverage and parser assumptions
• Updated scan heuristic tests to match production behavior
• Updated feature flag expectations for current stable features
• Completed build migration to MSYS2 UCRT64

Roadmap Progress

This release completes the foundation milestone and unlocks future development:

Completed

✅ Core SDK architecture refactor
✅ Archive performance improvements
✅ Asset indexing infrastructure
✅ Validation pipeline stabilization
✅ Testing framework cleanup

Next Milestones

Asset Editing

• Texture replacement workflows
• Archive rebuilding
• APT visual editing
• Resource dependency tracking

League Editor

• Team editing
• Conference editing
• Dynasty database tools
• Roster management

TeamBuilder

• Uniform editing
• Logo management
• Stadium customization
• Team package creation

Result

The CFBRevamped SDK now has a clean, stable, and performant foundation. With the core systems optimized and fully validated, development can move toward higher-level modding tools and user-facing editors.

ASTra Core v1.0.2

Hotfix Update

This update addresses a critical issue with texture replacement quality.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the DXT1 compression pipeline that caused severe texture degradation (blotching, smearing, and incorrect colors) when importing TGA textures
• Corrected endpoint handling and color reconstruction to better align with in-game rendering
• Improved overall compression accuracy for field and logo textures

Notes

• This is a targeted hotfix with no new features
• Some unrelated issues may still exist
• Please report any remaining problems on GitHub

ASTra Core v1.0.1

Overview

v1.0.1 is a stability and quality-of-life update following the initial 1.0.0 release.

This update focuses on improving reliability, adding a proper update system, and providing clear feedback during core operations. The goal is to continue transitioning ASTra into a stable, retail-grade tool.

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✨ New Features

🔄 Auto Updater

• Added built-in update system using GitHub Releases
• Version status indicator now shown in the top-right of the app
• Supports status tags:
  • Latest
  • Update Available
  • Beta
  • Nightly
  • Pre-Release
• Safe update flow (no in-place executable overwrite)
• Lays groundwork for future stable/dev release channels

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⚠️ Operation Feedback System

Added user feedback for core operations:

• Save operations now display:
  • Success confirmations
  • Failure popups with context
• Extract operations now display:
  • Completion confirmation
  • Error feedback when issues occur
• Import/Replace operations now display:
  • Success confirmation
  • Validation/operation failure messages

This improves visibility and prevents silent failures.

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🧪 Logging & Debug Improvements

• Expanded logging coverage for core operations
• Improved error reporting and diagnostic output
• Better internal visibility for:
  • File operations
  • Update checks
  • Failure states

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🛠️ Improvements

• General UI stability improvements
• More consistent behavior during file operations
• Improved handling of edge cases during save/extract/import workflows
• Reduced likelihood of silent failures

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⚠️ Known Limitations

• ASTra Core is still early in development
• Some edge cases may still cause unexpected behavior
• Texture replacement validation is still being refined
• Advanced format editors (APT, DB, etc.) are not yet part of Core

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🔜 Roadmap

Upcoming development focus:

• RSF Studio (AST creation + asset mapping)
• DB Studio (roster/dynasty editing)
• Gameplay editors (attribdb / STRe / Vers)
• Continued validation improvements (especially texture pipeline)

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🧾 Notes

• ASTra Core is the stable release branch
• Experimental features will be introduced through ASTra Dev builds

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💬 Feedback

If you encounter issues or bugs:

• Open an issue on GitHub
• Or report via Discord

Your feedback is critical to improving ASTra.

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Thanks to everyone testing and supporting development.

ASTra Beta

ASTra Core is a streamlined build of ASTra, focused on the core functionality needed for inspecting and modifying EA Sports AST/BGFA archives used in titles like NCAA Football 14.

This release is intended to provide a stable foundation while the main ASTra repository continues development of experimental and in-progress features.

Features

• AST Archive Explorer

  • Browse AST archives with a full file tree
  • Support for nested AST containers
  • Extract individual files or entire archives

• Texture Preview & Extraction

  • Preview textures directly in the UI
  • Export textures as DDS
  • Supports DDS, P3R, and XPR/XPR2 derived textures

• Texture Replacement

  • Replace textures within AST archives
  • Designed for common modding workflows

• Config/Text Editing

  • Built-in editor for XML, config, and text-based files

• Game Library

  • Manage multiple games and quickly open archives

Notes

ASTra Core is currently released as a Beta.

Some features from the full ASTra development branch have been removed or disabled to keep this release focused and stable.

If you encounter issues, please open an issue on the GitHub repository with steps to reproduce the problem.

Future development will continue in the main ASTra project.

ASTra Core Beta

ASTra Core is a streamlined release of the ASTra project focused on the core functionality needed for inspecting and editing EA Sports asset archives used in NCAA Football 14 and related titles.

This release is a stripped version of the current ASTra GitHub repository. The primary repository still contains experimental systems and ongoing development features, while ASTra Core focuses on the core tools intended for everyday use.

Included in ASTra Core:

• Game library management
• AST archive browsing
• Entry search and filtering
• AST extraction and entry extraction
• Texture preview, export, and import workflows
• Text/XML/config editing
• Hex/raw inspection
• Save and rebuild container workflows
• Minimal RSF structured table editor

Experimental / In Progress:

• DLC AST creation workflow
• Built-in update checker

These features are still under development and may not function correctly yet.

This is a Beta release, and there may still be bugs or incomplete behavior.

If you encounter any issues, please report them through the GitHub Issues page so they can be investigated and addressed in future updates.