VTFEdit++

 VTFEdit++

Developer(s)

ficool2

Initial release

Aug 7, 2026

Stable release

Sep 6, 2026

Written in

Operating system

Type

Texture tool

Target engine(s)

Distribution

Freeware

Website

GitHub Repository

Download

Latest Release

Version

4.2.0

 VTFEdit++ is a fork of VTFEdit Reloaded with many new features. It consists of a GUI frontend (VTEdit++) and a CLI tool (VTFCmd).

Features

• Redesigned, cleaner user interface with Qt, and supports dark theme!
• Implemented .gif animation frame importing
• Added drag and drop importing of textures
• Non-power of two textures can now be created
• VMTs with syntax errors can now be imported successfully
• Default VTF version is now 7.4
• Default indentation in VMT editor is now 4 spaces
• Added document tabs, so multiple textures and materials can be opened at the same time
• Added zooming with mouse scroll wheel, and panning by holding left click
• Added error line highlighting for missing quotes, braces and unquoted vector/matrix values in VMTs
• Added sprite sheet editor for particles, similar to mksheet tool. Access it under Resources tab
• Added import presets
  • This allows you to quickly switch between settings for common configurations (Recommend using these so your assets are consistent for diffuse, normal maps, icons, etc)
  • You can edit the presets, in addition to creating and saving your own presets
• Added $distancealpha (signed distance field) generation when importing, under Advanced tab.
  • This also uses a new algorithm that is orders of magnitude faster than VTEX!
• Added Hotspot editor for materials with hotspot data/.rect files, can be accessed under "Texture" tab
• Added EXR/PFM/HDR import and export support.
  • This now allows creating RGBA16161616, RGBA16161616F, RGBA32323232F and R32 VTFs
• Added support for importing and exporting DXT1A, ATI1N and ATI2N textures (now works correctly in-game)
• Added support for BC7 and BC6H formats (for mods that use DirectX 11), based on Strata Source spec
  • In addition, the extended BC6H_UNSIGNED, BC5 and BC4 formats are supported
• Added support for VTF 7.6 ( Strata Source format)
• Added support for CPU compression under VTF 7.6
• Implemented NICE filtering for scaling/mipmaps
• Added normal map renormalization, this makes normal map mipmaps/resizing look a lot better
  • This requires Normal Map to be ticked when importing
• Added recognition for PCC (Parallax Cubemap) VTF resource
• Added unwrapped view for cubemaps, this can be toggled in options
• Added options to customize font, text size, indentation and color of VMT editor
• Added option to strip alpha channel on import
• Added option to preserve aspect ratio when resizing
• Added quick texture flags to import
• Added multiple of 4 resizing when importing (for DXT formats)
• Added ability to change VTF version of existing textures
• Added line numbers to VMT editor
• Implemented single instance.
  • Opening multiple VTFs at once will instead open in a singular VTFEdit instance as tabs. This behavior can be toggled under "Options"
• Mipmaps are now shown at full size when previewing, can be toggled under View -> Zoom Mipmaps
• Added framerate slider for animated textures
• When batch exporting, all frames, faces and slices are now exported
• Input/output folder when batch converting can now be manually edited
• Color and alpha format list now only list the formats that actually do or don't support alpha
• Alpha format is now automatically dropped from image if the alpha channel is fully blank, e.g. DXT5 -> DXT1
• Increased max texture dimensions to 16384
• Improved texture flag names, all of them can now be ticked
• Imported textures will now have their name automatically set to the original file's name
• Improved robustness of the VTF parser to prevent crashes from badly-formed/malicious VTFs
• sRGB flag is no longer applied on imports
• Re-ordered the color/alpha formats by common usage
• Fixed sluggish VMT editing
• Fixed crash related to VMT editing
• Fixed stray garbage pixel in bottom left when copying image to clipboard
• Removed WAD support
• Removed filters that weren't implemented
• Removed File System tab

Screenshots

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  VTFEdit++ interface

See also

• Creating a Material