craftablescience/VPKEdit v5.0.0.2

v5.0.0-beta.2

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VPKEdit 5.0 is coming soon! It brings with it a bunch of bug fixes and features. I want to delay the proper release to add more features and properly test everything that's changed, so in the meantime here's a beta release.

General Changes

• ❗Add macOS as a supported platform (thanks @Charles-Bao and @EricZhang456!)
• Update logo to from
  • ❗Add 16x16 variant for better scaling (thanks to The Pixel for the design!)
• ❗Add support for SiN (SIN) pack file format
• Add support for Xbox Zip (XZP) pack file format
• Properly set RPATH on Linux for standalone builds
• ❗Fix GCF checksum verification algorithm
• ❗Add support for parsing contents of encrypted GCFs

GUI Changes

• ❗Create a plugin system to be able to load new previews not packaged with the program at runtime
  • ❗Migrated DMX and MDL previews to new plugin system
• Qt updates
  • ❗Upgrade to Qt 6.8.2 6.8.3 on Windows
  • Use system Qt for Linux installers (third-party vendors are already doing this)
    • Fixes system themes being inaccessible
  • ❗Downgrade to Qt 6.4.2 Upgrade to Qt 6.8.2 for standalone Linux builds
• Improve translations
  • Add Vietnamese translation
  • Update Japanese translation
  • Update Spanish translation
• Fix pack file name possibly being renamed to a translated text in the status bar
• ❗Delay deletion of temporary files to when the program closes
• Stop crashing when given a DMX file that fails to parse
• Stop listing elements at the root of a DMX file if it has been referenced in a different element previously
• Reorganize About dialog
• Fix possibility of Steam library icons not being populated
  • Used to use a heuristic, now it parses assetcache.vdf directly
• ❗Fix top of text preview blocking mouse input
• Add .vint_doc and .vint_proj to text preview
• Add .qoi to image preview
• Explicitly set GLSL profile in shaders to fix model preview breaking on some machines (thanks @Exotic0015!)
• ❗Parse patch materials to find $basetexture in MDL preview
• ❗Add support for $translucent, $alphatest, and $alphatestreference to MDL preview renderer
• ❗Use strictly core OpenGL 3.3 profile features in MDL preview's renderer
• ❗Add panning to texture preview (thanks @JJL772!)
• ❗Add a more natural zoom curve to texture preview
• ❗Add support for .xtf textures (from Half-Life 2's Xbox port) to texture preview
• ❗Modify cursor to grabby hand when panning or rotating in MDL preview and texture preview
• ❗Fix DXT1 textures with punchthrough alpha not being treated as having alpha in texture preview
• ❗Remove VTF mimetype on Linux now that MareTF is a better VTF viewer (thanks @HurricanePootis!)
• ❗ Remove audio preview (it will be replaced in a future beta, it was simply too buggy to keep)
• ❗ Double-clicking entries in the entry tree will now open that file in the associated external program
• ❗Use Ko-fi logo for donation menu action
• More to come...

CLI Changes

• Allow the editing commands (add/remove file/directory) to be repeated
• ❗Implement response file support (thanks @sour-dani!)

Installer Changes

• Add Fedora and Fedora-based distro support (RPM installer)
• ❗Add macOS support (DMG installer)
• Stop shipping the Qt image format plugins on Windows and in standalone builds, they are not needed anymore
• Bake Qt base translations into the executable rather than installing as unpacked files
• Become a more normal application on Linux - depend on system Qt, install to /usr/bin instead of /opt, and start following convention
  • Standalone builds are unchanged
• Merge standalone CLI and GUI builds into one zip, should make install process slightly easier to figure out
• Fix program icon install directory on Linux + some mimetypes being incorrectly formatted (thanks @HurricanePootis!)