[Rson]

There are other tools for viewing vp files that vpview?

[karajorma]

The bottom 3 from WMC's post will all allow you to view as well as edit VP files IIRC.

[Fury]

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.

[Kazan]

Mr Fury: i can easily make an extractor

VPCS 2 can read files from another .vp and write them into your new one.

[Fury]

Please do, I really miss a single-exe extraction tool that keeps directory structure intact as well. Thank you!

[MetalDestroyer]

VP Mage and Quick VP for me, but i'm just interested into this VPview, where can i get it ?

[taylor]

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.

[WMCoolmon]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,34109.0.html

[Fury]

taylor, first time I heard of that tool. Feel free to make a win32 build out of it. Has it been tested?

[taylor]

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...

[Deepstar]

I use VPview and VPCS (2?), i don't need another programm.

[Fury]

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.

[taylor]

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.

[Fury]

Not needing an extractor much these days but I will let you know if I find any problems.