VPKEdit

VPKEdit is an open source MIT-licensed tool that can create, extract from, preview the contents of and write to several pack file formats.

Installing

Please read this file for step-by-step installation instructions.

Features

• Supported file formats:

  Format	Description	Create	Read	Write
  007	Asset pack (007 - Nightfire)	❌	✅	❌
  BMZ	Bonus Map Zip (Source Engine)	✅	✅	✅
  BSP	Source 1 Map	N/A	✅	✅
  FPX	VPK modification (Tactical Intervention)	✅	✅	✅
  GCF	Game Cache File (Pre-SteamPipe Steam games)	❌	✅	❌
  GMA	Garry's Mod Addon	❌	✅	✅
  OL	Worldcraft Object Library	❌	✅	❌
  ORE	Unknown acronym (Narbacular Drop)	❌	✅	❌
  PAK	PAcK file (Quake, original Half-Life, HROT, etc.)	✅	✅	✅
  PCK	Godot PaCK file (Standalone or embedded)	✅	✅	✅
  PK3	Pack v3 (Quake II)	✅	✅	✅
  PK4	Pack v4 (Quake IV, Doom 3)	✅	✅	✅
  VPK	Vampire PacK file (V:TMB)	〰️1	✅	✅
  VPK	Valve PacK file (Source Engine)	✅	✅	✅
  WAD	Where's All the Data (GoldSrc Engine)	✅	✅	✅
  ZIP	ZIP file	✅	✅	✅

• Preview files contained within the pack file without extracting them:

  • Audio
  • Text files (any encoding)
  • KeyValues files (text files with syntax highlighting)
  • Images
  • Source 1 Textures
  • Source 1 Models
  • Source 1 DMX files (particles, SFM sessions, etc.)
  • Source 1 PPL files (prop lightmaps)

• Create pack files of any version from scratch or an existing folder

• Add and remove files and folders from writable pack files

• Extract files and folders from readable pack files

• Switch version of existing VPKs

• Native Linux compatibility

• User interface translated to the following languages (support the translation effort here):

  • Bosnian
  • Chinese (simplified)
  • Dutch
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

Please read this file to see all keyboard shortcuts.

A separate application with no external dependencies (vpkeditcli) provides a command-line interface.

Planned Features

See the open issues on this repository marked as an enhancement.

Contributing

This project accepts a wide range of contributions, mostly code and translations. Code contributions are done through this GitHub repository. Translations are open to everyone, only requiring a free POEditor account, and are hosted at https://poeditor.com/join/project/yxR9MLc9X2. Any contributors will be added to the credits in the form of a text file shipped with the CLI application and a popup in the GUI application.

Backend

This tool is powered by a collection of open-source C++20 Source engine parsers called sourcepp.

Footnotes

1. Only supported in the CLI interface. ↩