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Pietas

25 Jan, 2014 @ 10:48pm

Opening .vpk and vtf files on Linux?

I've been debating on where to post this, but since it's applicable to all Valve games, I hope it's OK here.

I'd like to open .vpk and .vtf files on Linux (for modding purposes), but the developer wiki hasn't helped me out here-- GCFscape only works on Windows.

Is there some other tool I don't know about, or maybe a way to get GSCscape/VTFEdit running with WINE?

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Rhyndos

1 Feb, 2014 @ 2:15pm

I couldn't run VTFEdit on Wine either, but I'm a novice with Linux.

Dusk of Oolacile has Steam for Linux

2 Feb, 2014 @ 2:10pm

The file format is officially specified by Valve. You can write an unpacker anytime you want.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VPK_File_Format

Pietas

17 Feb, 2014 @ 9:15pm

Minor update in case anyone's searching for the same issue: you can run GCFScape and VTFEdit via Wine if you also install the .Net platform within Wine. I use winetricks, and those two now work like a charm.

I'm still working on getting Valve's linux native vpk_linux32 to work-- I've followed the tutorial given on the dev wiki, and can't even get it to execute, even if I use the shell script they provide. Will update again (again, in case someone else needs this) once I've got that sorted.

hirsute

20 Feb, 2014 @ 6:15pm

cd "SteamApps/common/Team Fortress 2/bin" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./vpk_linux32 l ../tf/tf2_lv_dir.vpk

Pietas

20 Feb, 2014 @ 6:21pm

Does it use the same syntax as the windows version to pack files? That's the last thing I was looking for.

hirsute

20 Feb, 2014 @ 6:40pm

Dunno, but I'd assume yes ? I never tried to create VPKs, merely extracted them to dig around.

Pietas

20 Feb, 2014 @ 7:06pm

Originally posted by hirsute:
Dunno, but I'd assume yes ? I never tried to create VPKs, merely extracted them to dig around.

Cool. GCFscape via WINE works perfectly, but being able to pack stuff will be a MASSIVE improvement when sorting out workshop mods that have random conflicts.

Napalm

8 Mar, 2014 @ 12:24pm

They directions for running it on 64bit systems

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VPK#Linux_users

Listing and extracting works on some VPKs and segfaults on others.

Haze33E

15 Mar, 2016 @ 4:32pm

@Pietas Sorry for the necro but I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 32bit. What would I need to do to be able to open/edit vtf vmt vpk files. I'm looking into custom crosshairs and modeling for team fortress 2.

Last edited by Haze33E; 15 Mar, 2016 @ 4:32pm

tuxutku

8 Apr, 2018 @ 8:44am

EDIT: this project is borked and doesn't work/worked anyways
use Tiny7 in a vm, thats the best way to do it:
https://archive.org/details/Tiny7

https://github.com/linux-source-tools/gimp-plugin-vtf is the linux version of gimp-vtf-plugin, i have installed it an it works
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24626743/38469393-9bb61328-3b5c-11e8-81ff-003207adceb0.png

Last edited by tuxutku; 3 Feb, 2019 @ 5:04am

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Managor

16 Aug, 2020 @ 7:01am

The tool keeps complaining that the images are not powers of two so I made a minor edit to remove the functionality. Now you can view your TF2 sprays https://gitlab.com/Managor/gimp-plugin-vtf

Last edited by Managor; 9 Dec, 2020 @ 6:06pm

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