VPKEdit

VPKEdit is an open source MIT-licensed tool that can extract from, preview the contents of and write to several pack file formats. It also supports creating new VPKs.

Installing

Please read this file for step-by-step installation instructions.

Features

• Supported file formats:

  Format	Description	Create	Read	Write
  BMZ	Bonus Map Zip (Source Engine)	❌	✅	✅
  BSP	Source 1 Map	N/A	✅	✅
  FPX	VPK modification (Tactical Intervention)	❌	✅	✅
  GCF	Game Cache File (Pre-SteamPipe Steam games)	❌	✅	❌
  GMA	Garry's Mod Addon	❌	✅	✅
  GRP	Game Resource Package (Build Engine)	❌	✅	✅
  PAK	PAcK file (Quake, original Half-Life, etc.)	❌	✅	✅
  PCK	Godot PaCK file (Standalone or embedded)	❌	✅	✅
  VPK	Valve PacK file (Source Engine)	✅	✅	✅
  ZIP	ZIP file (Uncompressed)	❌	✅	✅

• Preview files contained within the pack file without extracting them:

  • Audio
  • Text files (any encoding)
  • KeyValues files (text files with syntax highlighting)
  • Images
  • Source 1 Textures
  • Source 1 Models

• Create VPKs of any version from scratch or an existing folder

• Add and remove files and folders from writable pack files

• Extract files and folders from readable pack files

• Switch version of existing VPKs

• Native Linux compatibility

Please read this file to see all keyboard shortcuts.

A separate application with no external dependencies (vpkeditcli) provides a command-line interface. Currently it can only create VPK files.

Planned Features

See the open issues on this repository marked as an enhancement.

Contributing

This project accepts a wide range of contributions, mostly code and translations. Code contributions are done through this GitHub repository. Translations are open to everyone, only requiring a free POEditor account, and are hosted at https://poeditor.com/join/project/yxR9MLc9X2. Any contributors will be added to the credits in the form of a text file shipped with the CLI application and a popup in the GUI application.

Backend

This tool is powered by an open-source pack file editing library, libvpkedit. This library's code is stored in this same repository, written in C++20 and also under the MIT license. Its code was initially based off of ValvePak and the Valve Developer Wiki (see the credits for more information).

A C wrapper library, libvpkeditc, is also present in this repository, and its compilation can be enabled in the CMake options. It translates the C++ library into a C interface with largely minimal to no overhead.