Talk:VTF Shell Extensions

Hammer browse tool replacement

Hypothetically, could the extension be modified to read from and generate thumbnails for VMT files instead, then from there allow Explorer to replace the Hammer texture search dialogue? --TomEdwards 11:52, 20 Aug 2007 (PDT)

How do you mean? Just literally show the text content of the VMT file? That's certainly possible although I don't know how useful that would be for searching? In Vista you could certainly implement a preview pane handler that would show the contents of the VMT file and for Vista/XP you could write a detail columns handler that would say add columns for shader type (UnlitGeneric, VertexlitGeneric, etc.), base texture or index the keywords (that start with %) in VMTs. That way you could search/sort against those attributes --Wunderboy 14:30, 20 Aug 2007 (PDT)

I mean image thumbnails of $basetexture. --TomEdwards 23:34, 20 Aug 2007 (PDT)

Well that wouldn't be hard but considering that the VMT and VTF often exist in the same folder you'd end up seeing the same thumbnail twice.--Wunderboy 02:53, 21 Aug 2007 (PDT)

What I'm getting at here is the feasibility of replacing Hammer's built-in texture search, so that's not so much of an issue. :-) --TomEdwards 11:26, 21 Aug 2007 (PDT)

VTF 7.4

Hey, I was wondering if there was anyway to get 7.4 working or at least have it not render those vtfs. It tends to crash my Explorer D: --Frostbite 12:31, 4 Mar 2008 (PST)

I e-mailed Jed about it a while ago:

Yes, it is possible it's the VTF 7.4 format thats causing the problem although the VTF Extension *should* catch it.

I'm at the mercy of Nem at the moment. We have a new edition of VTFLib/VTFEdit ready to go with full 7.4 format support and I've used a "preview" build of it to re-compile and test it with my plug-ins and extensions.

Unfortunately Nem's having a "slow" period and until he rolls up the VTFLibrary and makes it final I cant release a "fix".

I'll pester him and see where he's at with it.

--TomEdwards 12:51, 4 Mar 2008 (PST)

Thanks, hopefully once a 7.4 version comes out I can get badlands in the sky list. --Frostbite 05:14, 5 Mar 2008 (PST)