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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on July 26, 2005, 08:19:31 pm
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Just curious... :)
Edit: Screenshots/descriptions
VPView - screenshot (http://www.descent-network.com/descman/vpview20/scrshots/vpview_promotion.jpg)
Directory structure to the left in tree view; preview pane in the lower left; files of the currently selected directory to the right in a detailed list view.
VPCS
Files/directories in a single large treeview. Modification operations performed via menu items.
VPMage - screenshot (http://fs2source.warpcore.org/screenshots/vpmage.png)
All currently loaded VP files in a list to the left; files/directories in a small treeview to the right; debugging/status output in the middle; modificiation operations performed via buttons below the treeview.
VPCS 2
Directories to the left in a tree view; files to the right in a detailed list view; modification operations performed via menu items.
QuickVP
Directories/files at the bottom in a detailed list view; buttons and menus above the list perform modification operations.
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VPView. It's what I'm so used to.
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VPView, I've never tried anything else but I've never needed to.
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I use QuickVP for accessing TBP Base releases, but it has an annoying bug. Sometimes when you try to view or extract some selected files, it tries to extract half the archive.
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VPview undoubtably. Its both the easiest to use and the most effective. It would be nice if we could edit it like a zip archive though....
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I've never used anything other than VPView, as it does the job very well.
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I wasn't aware of the existance of a lot of these programs, VPView has always been good enough for me.
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vpview, see abov reasons.
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VPView, works good, simple, and I wouldn't care to learn another.
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the latest VP view. it's teh roxxors! :D
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VPView for viewing. VPCS for building.
I like the idea of VPMage but quite frankly I could never figure out how to do anything with it.
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VPCS2 is in wxWidgets - if you want to take maintainership of it and make it more featurefull, change the GUI, and make sure it's linux compatable send me an email/pm and i'll give you access to my sourceforge CVS
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VPView I guess; although I'd be happy just using a command line tool to actually build the things - I'm not too bothered about a GUI for that.
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VPIView
I never knew, that others even exist, so I used only that in all the years :lol:
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VP View for viewing, but for building I use Kazan's VP constructor. It's simple, easy to use, and effective.
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VPView for reasons apparent in the name. VPCS for building VPs. VPMage seemed much harder to work with, IMO, so when I downloaded Kazan's tools, I was happy to find a VP constructor with it. :)
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there are much newer versions of my tools then the ones in the bundle - see http://www.sf.net/projects/alliance
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apparently i haven't code-rolled VPCS to there ever.. i'll do that tonight
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I've never needed to build VPs, but I couldn't imagine anything else that organizes them as well as VPView does.
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VPCS2's interface is very very close to VPView's arrangement.. and it wasn't completed being fleshed out
IIRC it also supports vp2vp copy - i need to check if i finished that though
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im quite fond of qvp myself. i perfer the winzip-esc interface. it has performance issues and some bugs but i figure why use 2 programs when theres one to do both jobs of viewing vps and making them. i rarely open vps anymore and instead perfer to create new data from scratch than use something from the vps. stuff like textures, i keep in my modding dir in bmp format for use in truespace. i rarely deal with vps so the bugs dont bother me much.
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There are other tools for viewing vp files that vpview?
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The bottom 3 from WMC's post will all allow you to view as well as edit VP files IIRC.
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Bumping an old thread.
Someone really should write a simple single exe-file command line .vp file extration tool, similar to Kazan's VPMake. No fancy GUI, just extracts a vp file to given directory.
VPView 1.3: Requires dllpak, does not work on XP x64.
VPView 2.0 beta 5: Does not create directories, pain in the ass to extract a full vp directory by directory.
VPCS 2: Apparently only builds vp files, does not extract them.
VPMage: When I've used this tool, I've encountered some odd bugs. The GUI is not too good when compared to VPView for example.
QuickVP: Haven't tried it, apparently buggy too.
Forget GUIs, a simple command line tool is the most effective. Kazan's VPMake proved this quite well, VPMake is my favorite vp-file related tool for a reason. Now it needs a pair, for extraction.
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Mr Fury: i can easily make an extractor :P
VPCS 2 can read files from another .vp and write them into your new one.
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Please do, I really miss a single-exe extraction tool that keeps directory structure intact as well. Thank you!
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VP Mage and Quick VP for me, but i'm just interested into this VPview, where can i get it ?
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
Someone really should write a simple single exe-file command line .vp file extration tool, similar to Kazan's VPMake. No fancy GUI, just extracts a vp file to given directory.
There already is one, "cfileextractor" in CVS. It's very simple, small, and has no real requirements, but I'll do up a Win32 exe of it this afternoon if you want.
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http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,34109.0.html
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taylor, first time I heard of that tool. Feel free to make a win32 build out of it. Has it been tested?
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
taylor, first time I heard of that tool. Feel free to make a win32 build out of it. Has it been tested?
There has never been a Windows binary made so probably only myself, WMCoolmon, and a couple of other Linux users actually know about it. I use it anytime that I need to extract some VPs so it works pretty well. Doesn't have many features, run it with "-x" to extract files into the current directory, "-l" (or no option) to list the files, and you can use "-L" to force all extracted files to get lowercase (when used with -x). It doesn't do much else.
There is an archiver version too which Volition originally released with the source code. I'll make a Win32 binary of that as well if you want a cmdline tool to make a VP.
Let me know if you have any problems with the extractor though...
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I use VPview and VPCS (2?), i don't need another programm.
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Originally posted by taylor
There has never been a Windows binary made so probably only myself, WMCoolmon, and a couple of other Linux users actually know about it. I use it anytime that I need to extract some VPs so it works pretty well. Doesn't have many features, run it with "-x" to extract files into the current directory, "-l" (or no option) to list the files, and you can use "-L" to force all extracted files to get lowercase (when used with -x). It doesn't do much else.
There is an archiver version too which Volition originally released with the source code. I'll make a Win32 binary of that as well if you want a cmdline tool to make a VP.
Let me know if you have any problems with the extractor though...
Worked like a charm it seems. Only thing it's missing is the ability to give a full path to dir you want to extract a vp to.
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
Worked like a charm it seems. Only thing it's missing is the ability to give a full path to dir you want to extract a vp to.
It's not missing anymore. ;)
Not tested quite as well but it has worked ok for me so far. Your full output path (counts output directory, "data" path from VP, and filename) has to be less than 255 characters so keep that in mind. It should give an error to that fact if you go over. Also, you can't specify a directory with spaces in it unless you enclose it in quotes. If you don't it will likely just print the usage instructions and not tell you why.
It it causes any problems let me know.
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Not needing an extractor much these days but I will let you know if I find any problems.