VTFEdit

Todo: Create a seperate page about VTFEdit Reloaded or create a section about VTFEdit Reloaded on this page.

VTFEdit is a GUI frontend for the functions contained within VTFLib, an LGPL open source programming library. VTFEdit is a successor to VTFTool and is written by Neil "Jed" Jedrzejewski and Ryan "Nemesis" Gregg.

VTFEdit itself was written solely by Ryan and is a .NET-based GUI tool for the creation and conversion of VTF and VMT files. It is a powerful tool allowing files of various formats to be converted to/from VTF format in all of the Source texture formats.

VTFEdit produces mipmaps and DXTn compressed images using nVidia's nvDXTlib library, offering a wide range of formats and filters.

Other features include the ability to create normal maps from greyscale images, various sharpening filters for MIP Map generation, access to all VTF header flags, a simple tree-based VMT creation system with GCF access, a WAD conversion tool, a batch conversion tool, and a VMT creation wizard.

Bug:VTFEdit will crash if you attempt to paste anything but text into the editor.  [todo tested in ?]

Warning:Support for importing and exporting HDR textures is limited; use Vtex to create HDR textures, and no_vtf to export them.

Screenshots

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  VTFEdit in action

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  VMT Editing

VTFEdit Reloaded

Bug:VTFEdit Reloaded does not support TF2's branch and will create corrupted vtfs (vImageLoadProc() fail in image editors with plugins). TF2 mods will almost certainly have the same problem. This bug may also be true of other engine branches also.  [todo tested in ?]

Todo: WIP

VTFEdit Reloaded is a fork of VTFEdit with some code rewritten and updated by Joshua Ashton. New features include:

• Migrated to using AMD Compressonator for DXT compression.
• Fixed the green tinge bug when exporting textures
• Respect sRGB-ness when generating mipmaps and resizing.
• High DPI support
• Syntax highlighting support for VMTs
• Monospace font
• Fixed cubemap previews

See Also

• Creating a Material
• VMT Editor
• VTFVer

External Links

• VTFLib - official GitHub repository and binary download
• Nem's Tools [VTFLib - Download - VTEEdit v1.3.3 Full]^{[dead link]} – the official website
• Nem's Tools [VTFLib - Download - VTEEdit v1.3.3 Full] – archive on Wayback Machine
• Nem's Tools [VTFLib - Download] – archive hosted on GitHub (faster)

VTFEdit/VTFLib - More mirrors

VTFLib/VTFEdit v1.3.3 – download @ Gamebanana Nem's Tools Archives – download @ Gamebanana [https://www.tophattwaffle.com/downloads/vtfedit/ VTFEdit

• Arch User Repository – AUR package for VTFEdit on Arch Linux
• no_vtf – a console-only alternative to VTF2TGA
• VTFEdit Reloaded - an updated fork of VTF Edit that has new features such as importing PSD files.
• [1] - VTFEdit Reloaded version 2.0.0 download link