craftablescience/VPKEdit v4.3.0

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4.3 Highlights

• Create Windows 7, 8, 8.1-compatible builds
• Add support for creating more pack file types besides VPK
• Text files can now be edited without leaving the application
• Allow previewing unpacked files, folders
• Add support for compressed BSP paklumps

General Changes

• Add support for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines' "VPK" pack file format
• Add support for PK3, PK4 pack file formats
• Add support for VPK v54 pack files (a variant of VPK that supports compression)
• Remove support for GRP pack file format (from the Build Engine, used in Duke Nukem 3D)
• Add support for creating BMZ, FPX, PAK, PCK, ZIP files
• Rewrite how pack files are loaded to be faster and use less memory
• Improve Windows filepath cleaning logic when extracting files from a pack file to disk
• Fix ZIP files being left in the temp folder after editing a BSP paklump
• Fix BSP paklumps larger than the previously existing paklump being truncated when written
• Shrink the entire BSP file when the modified lump shrinks in size
• Add support for compressed BSP paklumps and ZIPs

GUI Changes

• Add PPL preview (prop lightmap)
• Add SVG preview
• Allow encrypting .txt, .nut files and decrypting .ctx, .nuc files directly from the right-click context menu
• Add support for opening any unpacked previewable file, which lets you preview the file without packing it
• Add support for opening any unpacked folder, which lets you preview the contents of the folder without packing it
• Add progress bar for renaming folders containing tons of files
• Dragging pack files on top of the application will open them when no pack file is loaded
• Fix modifying the original BSP when saving to a different folder
• Fix decompressing Deflate-compressed VTFs with multiple slices
• Fix previewing cubemap VTFs when the presence of a spheremap is not reported in the header
• Fix previewing VTFs with texture data stored in a floating-point format, such as HDR cubemaps
• Fix previewing VTFs with texture data stored as BC6H (a Strata Source extension)
• Fix model preview rendering weirdly on some Linux desktops
• Fix model preview being unable to find some textures
• Reduce VTF preview load time
• Change "Close Pack File" keybind to Ctrl + W over Ctrl + X
• 900x500 is now the preferred window resolution rather than the minimum
• Save and restore window position/size between launches
• Remove tiny margins around the previews that still had them
• Fix potential bugs when dragging files into other applications
• Fix Linux installations running in a KDE desktop potentially not preferring a discrete GPU

CLI Changes

• Add support for creating Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines' "VPK" pack files (plus the others listed in the General Changes category)