Planned Features

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Updated 06-Dec-2019

• "Bug Reports and Feature Requests" forum posts tagged in title with [PLANNED]
  
• General
  
• Set Up Games
  
• Organize
  
• Download
  
• Unpack
  
• Decompile
  
• Edit
  
• Compile
  
• Patch
  
• View
  
• Pack
  
• Publish
  
• Options
  
• Help
  
• About
  
• Update
  
• Suggested Features (features considered, but not yet planned)

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General

• Change textboxes into "most-recently used" comboboxes for all "input" (such as Compile > QC File or Folder) options.
  
• Change textboxes into "most-recently used" comboboxes for all Output Folder > Full path options.
  
• Change textboxes into "most-recently used" comboboxes for all Output Folder > Subfolder options.
  
  
• Command-line options for decompiling.

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Set Up Games

• Auto-detect game setup paths.

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Organize

• Switch between "projects" that change various settings throughout Crowbar's tabs.

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Download

• Pause button.
  
• Download from a "Friends-only" addon.
  
• Scan contents and rename.
  * For L4D2, for example, if survivor_mechanic => start new name with "Ellis_".
  
• Decompress and re-compress (e.g. from ZIP to 7Z).
  
• Download and rename one or more of the preview images.
  
• Download to a game's "addons" (or game-specific) folder.

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Unpack

• Collect map names from various VPKs and write to a text file.
  
• After user finds MDL file, detect other referenced assets:
  - model files
  - texture files
  - included anim files
  - sound files
  - script files
  
• Merge option - Select VPKs. Unpack and re-pack into one VPK.

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Decompile

• Decompile all MDL versions, from GoldSource and Source engines.
  
• Decompile all ANI versions, from Source engine.
  
• Decompile all VTF versions to BMP or other image formats.
  * StudioCompiler's VTF Export tab and VTFEdit features are related to this.
  
  
• Decompile to DMX format. This will include face flexes for TF2 HWM models as discussed in this topic.
  
  
• Decompile each flex to a separate VTA file, instead of all in one VTA file.
  
• Option to combine all or some animation SMD files into one, using $sequence frame option in QC to distinguish them.
  
• Option to write QC flex data into a separate QCI file.

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Edit

• Options for editing a QC file.
  * StudioCompiler's Model Compile tab > Compile Model button is related to this.
  
• Options for editing materials/textures.
  * StudioCompiler's Material Compiler tab is related to this.
  
• Rotate a mesh and skeleton by a user-specified angle (to deal with Maya using y-axis as up).
  
• Rotate a bone by a user-specified angle in all frames of all animations.
  
• Edit a bone in all frames of an anim.
  
• Scale an anim or all anims.
  
• GUI generator instead of text editing of QC and QCI files.
  
• Flip viewmodel weapons (between left-handed and right-handed). Change ref mesh and anims.
  

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Compile

• Options for studiomdl compiler found in various versions of studiomdl.exe
  
• Before running compiler, check for various syntax and other errors, and report as needed.
  
• Compile from BMP or other image formats to VTF.
  * StudioCompiler's VTF Export tab and VTFEdit features are related to this.

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Patch

• Modify values directly in an MDL file:
  - internal model path file name (one or two places)
  - ani path file name
  - cdmaterials paths
  - includemodel path file names
  - bodygroup names
  - hitbox bodygroup
  - various flags, such as ambientboost and mostlyopaque
  - GoldSource: $flags and $texrendermode values
  
• Scale several VTF files.
  
• Convert between VTF versions.

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View (and Preview)

• "Compare with 2 Viewers" that opens HLMV twice with them set to show side by side.

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Pack

• Have way to use vpk to package model files.
  - Model mdl file name field auto-set to compiled model mdl file name
  OR
  "Select compiled model" button
  - Fields:
  - Release folder
  - Author
  - Steam account
  - Steam group
  - "Pack" button
  - "Pack" creates addon folders and files, calls vpk.exe
  
• Option for "Write multi-file VPK".

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Publish

• Update an item where you are a contributor (for games that allow this).
  
• Edit images and videos.
  
• Add and remove contributors.
  
• Edit Required DLC, Required Items, and Links
  
• Drop-down for selecting language.

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Options

• DARK MODE - Changeable color theme.
  
• Option to save Settings to Data (or user-given) folder beside Crowbar.exe (like in previous versions), allowing Crowbar and settings to be placed on portable drive. Also, allows non-admin users to use Crowbar while having it installed in an admin folder such as "Program Files".
  
• Check for Data folder (like in previous versions) for Settings file.
  
• Windows file and folder context menu actions as requested here.

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Help

• Links to included web page documentation.

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