0.3.2

View commits since 0.3.1

GUI

• Improved deleted file recovery in vpks
  • Recover possible file path and names
  • Recover files in archives in trailing data after last possible entry for that archive
• Replaced "Show triggers" and "Show entity colliders" with a list of entities that can be toggled individually
• Fixed winforms message events not processing while OpenGL is active (was causing controls to not refresh)
• Added a setting to specify max texture size (default to 1024) to reduce VRAM usage when opening big maps
• Added Ctrl+F support to search text tabs (Ctrl+Shift+F to repeat search)
• Added file contents search within a vpk (essentially a grep)
• Added support for changing camera movement speed by scrolling up and down
• Holding Shift or Alt and moving the mouse is now an alternative camera movement
• Saving and deleting a camera will now synchronize it to all other open tabs
• Skyboxes are now rendered with different znear/zfar values so it is possible to see them further
• Fixed skybox origin to be scaled correctly

Library

• Added support for newer shader versions
• Added shader metadata extraction
• Added support for newer binary keyvalues 3
• Updated known entity lump keys for CS2
• Texture packing improvements for CS2 in glTF export
• Exported normal textures are no longer have Y inverted
• Fixed glTF export for files that are over 2GiB by splitting buffers (only for .gltf, not .glb)
• Fixed NaN bone scales in glTF

0.3.1

View commits since 0.3.0

Decompiler

• --stats now uses memory mapped files when reading from vpk

GUI

• Enabled high DPI support
• Optimized package tree
• Optimized uploading decompressed textures to the GPU
• Added support for picking objects in map viewer
  • Double click to open selected object in a new tab
• Added new file type icons
• Added support for new entity lump values
• Automatically expand lone folders in package tree (common in maps vpks)
• Fixed closed resources not releasing memory
• Fixed some bugs
• Fixed Counter-Strike 2 vpks not opening
• Removed SkiaSharp.Views.WindowsForms dependency

Library

• Added support for new binary keyvalues 3 (0x4B563303)
• Added support for ResponseRules (vrr)
• Added support for extracting snapshots (SnapshotExtract, vsnap)
• Use ArrayPool when decompressing binary keyvalues 3
• Use ArrayPool in MeshOptimizer
• Use ArrayPool when decompressing textures
• All texture decompressors now implement ITextureDecoder interface
• Reduced memory usage by not keeping textures during glTF export

0.3.0

View commits since 0.2.2

Decompiler

• Added --gltf_textures_adapt - perform any glTF spec adaptations on textures (e.g. split metallic map)
• Fixed output files being dumped to disk root when input path did not end with a slash

GUI

• Improved performance of text views by disabling word wrapping
• Improved performance of map and model viewer
• Added support for opening files directly inside of a vpk file by providing a path as an argument to VRF.exe, for example vpk:pak01_dir.vpk:file/inside.vmdl_c
• Added memory mapped file support when reading package file to reduce memory usage
• Added support for selecting multiple files in the package viewer
• Added support for aggregate scene objects in map viewer
• Added a checkbox to hide tools materials in map viewer
• Added basic rendering of entity models and sprites similar to Hammer
• Added automatic folder discovery when folders contain addoninfo.txt or .addon files
• Opening files inside of game addons folders will now automatically discover folders to load files (by looking for addoninfo.txt)
• Added export and decompile items to tab context menu (this replaces the Export menu)
• Exporting (and decompiling) a folder now attempts to deduplicate files, for example when a model exports, it won't export mesh and animation files separately
• Animated models now calculate their bounding box dynamically, they should no longer disappear out of view in map viewer
• Animation scrubber now pauses while dragging it
• Fixed FPS counter to correctly count frames
• Fixed binary blobs in PhysSceneNode
• Fixed loading skyboxes in Half-Life: Alyx maps
• Fixed model viewer having issues with skeletons when the are multiple meshes
• Fixed export dialog cancel button not actually cancelling the export
• Fixed particles never decaying
• Use Cascadia Mono font when available

Library

• Improved animation handling
  • Implemented CCompressedDeltaVector3 and CCompressedStaticVector3
  • Implemented bone scaling
  • Decode frames on demand to reduce memory usage
  • Bones are now remapped to a model
• Improved glTF exporting
  • Improved performance and file sizes
  • Reuse animations, skeletons, models, and meshes whenever possible
  • Decompiling a folder will now use glTF exporter
  • Generate PBR texture that glTF can understand
  • Embedded meshes now have names
  • Vertex buffers are no longer duplicated per draw call
  • Added morph position data
  • Only well known vertex accessors are output now
  • Fixed some bugs
• Improved material and texture extraction
  • Sprite textures will now export into individual frames
  • Materials will now produce a vmat file and individual textures
• Added support for sound phoneme reading
• Added support for post processing file reading
• Added support for newer shader file versions
• Mesh and Morph are now resource data types
• Fixed lz4 ring decoder frame size in binary kv3
• Fixed heap corruption after decompressing zstd binary kv3
• Fixed NTRO Color type
• Fixed CBlockDecompress::FastDecompress implementation
• Use native Half type

0.2.2

View commits since 0.2.1

GUI

• Allow double clicking external refs to open file
• Draw bounding boxes for sprite frame
• Fixed some deprecated OpenGL usages
• Some performance optimizations

Library

• AnimationGroupLoader is now in the library
• EntityLumpKeyLookup is now called StringToken
• Implemented sprite sheets in Texture
• Improved material attribute exporting
• Added support for R16G16_SNORM vertex attributes
• Added .vts resource type (typescript)
• Added faster path for UTF-8 in ReadNullTermString
• Fixed parsing negative numbers in text kv3
• Extract binary kv3 files with a kv3 header
• Do not output format:generic when we know it's not generic for kv3 files

0.2.1

View commits since 0.2.0

CLI

• Added arm/arm64 builds
• Added --recursive_vpk option

GUI

• Added support for recovering deleted files in vpk archives
  • It tries to automatically detect resource types
  • See @PistonMiner's post here for more details on this
• Added support for embedded animations in vagrp
• Added support for automatically finding bare files on disk when opening a model
• Render entity lumps into a separate tab
• Normalize line endings in text viewer
• Do not crash when settings.txt fails to load

Library

• New vcs (compiled shader) decompiler, thanks to @robert-hoff
• Added entity I/O output in entity lump dump
• Added Resource.FullFileSize to attempt to calculate full buffer size of a resource file
  • Metadata does have a file size, but it excludes sound and texture data
• Added Texture.CalculateTextureDataSize method to return full texture buffer size
  • For block compressed textures this is as simple as summing up all mipmap level sizes
  • For PNG textures, it will check for a valid header and scan all the PNG chunks until the end
  • This does not work for JPEG files at the moment
• Added verifyFileSize (default true) to Resource.Read to verify that the provided stream was fully consumed by VRF
• Added vanmgrph, vcdlist, and vdata resource type auto detection
• Added detection of resource type from singular input dependency in REDI
• Skip weights that are not vec4 during glTF export
• Fixed crash when determining file type from extensionless file name
• Fixed crash with duplicate key names in SoundStackScriptValue
• Fixed mipmap level calculation for small textures

0.2.0

View commits since 0.1.10

This release targets .NET 6.

CLI

• Added support for extension filter on recursive folders outside of vpks
• VPKs in VPKs are now recursed into
• Allow collecting stats on anything supported, not just resources

GUI

• Save and restore main window position and dimensions
• Added vmat tab that renders as keyvalues1
• Fixed exception after exporting to root of disk
• Removed "wtf" exception

Library

• Added support for dynamic expressions in material exports
• Added support for reconstructing xml files from vxml AST
• Added support for pretty printing css
• Added support for new versions of ToolsAssetInfo
• Corrected implementation of audio bits
• Refuse to export huge models that don't merge into one glb buffer
• Determine resource type from file name first

0.1.10

View commits since 0.1.9

• Removed AppVeyor CI

GUI

• Material (vmat) renderer now uses correct vertex shader (fixes crashing on Intel drivers)
• Fallback particle number and vector providers to static value (fixes HL:A maps not loading)

Library

• Implemented Zstandard decompression of binary keyvalue3 binary blobs
• Implemented CUBEMAP_RADIANCE_SH reading
• Fixed corrupted texture due to lz4 compression
• Fixed CCompressedFullQuaternion animation decoder decompression

0.1.9

View commits since 0.1.8

GUI

• Added vphys rendering

CLI

• Find all vpks when collecting stats in a folder
• Split exceptions per file type when collecting stats

Library

• Added support for RED2 block (It's REDI but keyvalues3)
• Added support for Zstandard binary keyvalues3 compression
• Added INSG block
• Added plaintext resource type
  • Artifact's DotaItem (item_c)
  • s&box's plain text data (SBData)
• Added VTexExtraData.CUBEMAP_RADIANCE_SH
• EntityLumpKeyLookup is now thread-safe
• Multiple fixes to binary keyvalues3 (fixes s&box compatibility)
• Disabled glTF buffer merging for files over 1GiB in size

0.1.8

View commits since 0.1.7

GUI

• Default open dialog to steamapps/common folder for new users
• Added material group support in model viewer
• Fixed crash on missing layers in map viewer
• Fixed color tinting in vr_standard shader
• Updated vcdlist icon

CLI

• Added --vpk_list - lists all resources in given VPK
• Added --gltf_export_format - exports meshes/models in given glTF format
• Added --gltf_export_materials - whether to export materials during glTF exports
• Fixed macOS binaries in GitHub releases

Library

• Added support for exporting worlds (maps) and world nodes
• Added support for newer tool asset info files
• Added support for old pre-VBIB meshes
• Added support for SrMa block (source maps)
• Resource type is now determined from file extension if all other methods fail
• Texture names in glTF exports are now preserved
• Textures are now external in GLB exports
• Updated KVFlaggedValue with new flags (resource_name, panorama, soundevent, subclass)
• Updated known entity lump keys
• Multiple improvements to texture exporting in glTF
• Improved byte array support in NTRO
• Fixed glTF rotation
• GltfModelExporter.ProgressReporter is now IProgress<string>
• VBIB structs were changed to match Valve's format more closely

0.1.7

View commits since 0.1.6

This release targets .NET 5.

GUI

• Added trackbar for playing animations
• Added support for exporting as GLB instead of GLTF
• Binary kv1 files can be opened now (like chat.cfg)

Library

• Added partial support for exporting animations to glTF
• Added support for binary keyvalues 1 (to parse patchnotes.vdpn_c)
• Added support for vsnap files
• Added support for vrman files
• Updated known entity lump keys