Opening .vpk and vtf files on Linux?

[Pietas]

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?

[Rhyndos]

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

[Dusk of Oolacile]

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]

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]

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

[Pietas]

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

[hirsute]

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

[Pietas]

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]

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]

@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.

[tuxutku]

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

[Managor]

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

[EdenIsASpood]

https://pypi.org/project/vpk/

cli tool for VPKs, a bit late but I hope this helps someone! <3

[EdenIsASpood]

https://github.com/linux-source-tools

This repo might also help ^^

[TrollFace (she/her)]

https://github.com/craftablescience/VPKEdit, this might work

[Cinna Cat Cwunch]

Originally posted by TrollFace:

https://github.com/craftablescience/VPKEdit, this might work

For VPKs, definitely. I have been using the program myself and it works just as it would under Windows. For VTFs, you would still have to use VTFEdit (original or Reloaded) under wine to be able to manipulate them, if you only go by GUI that is. For CLI, you can use this[github.com] instead. I'm surprised there isn't a gui version of this program yet.