craftablescience/VPKEdit v5.0.0.4

v5.0.0-beta.4

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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!)
  • ❗Change macOS code signing process to reduce install friction
• Update logo to from
  • Add 16x16 variant for better scaling (thanks to The Pixel for the design!)
• ❗Add create/read/write support for FGP pack file format
• Add read/write support for SiN (SIN) pack file format
• Add read support for Xbox Zip (XZP) pack file format
• ❗Add read support for Xbox Zip v2 (XZP2) pack file format
• ❗Fix baking PAK/SIN formats by ensuring directory is written to the end of the file and filenames are always null-terminated
• ❗Accelerate BSP/XZP2/ZIP read/write times by 3x in uncompressed scenarios
• Properly set RPATH on Linux for standalone builds
• Fix GCF checksum verification algorithm
• Add support for parsing contents of encrypted GCFs

GUI Changes

• ❗Greatly accelerate pack file load time
  • ❗In my Windows 10 VM the speedup was 20x, but I have heard reports of lower end systems which took minutes to open certain pack files now opening them near instantly
• Create a plugin system to be able to load new previews not packaged with the program at runtime
  • ❗Add plugin information dialog to show metadata of active plugins
  • Migrate DMX and MDL previews to new plugin system
  • ❗Migrate ICE encyption context menu entries to VCrypt plugin
• Qt updates
  • Upgrade to Qt 6.8.3 on Windows
  • Use system Qt for Linux installers (third-party vendors are already doing this)
    • Fixes system themes being inaccessible
  • Upgrade to Qt 6.8.2 for standalone Linux builds Rolled back after bugs with Qt on some distros
• Improve translations
  • Add Vietnamese translation
  • ❗Add Slovenian 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
• Reorganize About dialog
  • ❗Fix being unable to click any links in the About dialog
• ❗Add "Mark Modified" button to mark the current pack file as savable without editing the contents
• Fix possibility of Steam library icons not being populated
  • Used to use a heuristic, now it parses assetcache.vdf directly
• ❗Fix Steam library icons not being populated if the user had used multiple languages for their Steam install
• ❗Search bar now uses a regex filter instead of a keyword search
• ❗Apply contents of search bar automatically when the contents change instead of requiring an Enter keypress
• ❗Add basic sort capability to folder preview to allow sorting the table by a given column
• Fix top of text preview blocking mouse input
• Add .vint_doc and .vint_proj to text preview
• Add .qoi to image preview
• 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
• ❗DMX preview now shows attributes inline with the element contents similar to KV2's structure
• ❗DMX preview can now handle legacy binary versions, newer Source 2 versions
  • ❗DMX preview can now handle srctools' Unicode formats (thanks @TeamSpen210!)
• ❗Show a preview for ICE and VFONT-encrypted files hinting at decryption support
• ❗Add .ekv as a registered extension for VCrypt ICE encryption/decryption support
• ❗Add support for VFONT encryption/decryption to VCrypt plugin
• 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
  • ❗Fix usage of some compatibility features in the shaders. This fixes models rendering pure black on NVidia hardware, thank you @normalpersonininternet and @lenship2 for testing!
• 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
• ❗Fix texture preview not previewing mip levels below 4x4 correctly
• 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
  • ❗Fix this behavior on Windows
• 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!)
• ❗Fix GMA mimetype on Linux