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Valve Resource Format

Valve's Source 2 resource file format (also known as Stupid Valve Format) parser and decompiler. Contents of this repository are available under MIT license.

Interested in helping? Jump in #steamdb on freenode and ask away!

This repository is split into three components:

CLI Decompiler - File viewer, decompiler and a playground for testing new formats and features.
GUI Viewer - A complete mess of winforms and other fun things.
Library - The only sane part of this repository, provides public API.

You can download bleeding edge builds from AppVeyor.

What's supported?

Model viewer
Map viewer
Sound player
VPK viewer which supports opening and exporting files
Read only VPK API
Binary KeyValues3 parser
NTRO support

Supported resource types

Ext	Name	Support
vanim	Animation	No
vagrp	Animation Group	No
vseq	Sequence Group	No
vpcf	Particle System	👍 NTRO, KV3
vmat	Material	👍 NTRO
vmks	Sheet	No
vmesh	Mesh	Vertex and index buffers, vertex attributes
vtex	Compiled Texture	👍 DXT1, DXT5, I8, RGBA8888, R16, RG1616, RGBA16161616, R16F, RG1616F, RGBA16161616F, R32F, RG3232F, RGB323232F, RGBA32323232F, IA88, PNG, JPG
vmdl	Model	Started
vphys	Physics Collision Mesh	No
vsnd	Sound	👍 wav, mp3
vmorf	MorphSet	No
vrman	ResourceManifest	👍
vwrld	World	👍
vwnod	WorldNode	👍
vvis	WorldVisibility	No
vents	EntityLump	No
vsurf	Surface Properties	No
vsndevts	Sound Event Script	👍 KV1, 👎 KV3
vsndstck	Sound Stack Script	👍 KV1, 👎 KV3
vrmap	Resource Remap Table	No
vcss	Panorama Style	👍
vxml	Panorama Layout	👍
vpdi	Panorama Dynamic Images	No
vjs	Panorama Script	👍
vpsf	Particle Snapshot	No
vmap	Map	👍

Ext	Name	Support
vpk	Pak (package)	👍 Handled by ValvePak
vcs	Compiled Shader	Partially supported by `CompiledShader`
vfont	Bitmap Font	👍 Decrypts `VFONT1`, supported in Source 1 (CS:GO) and Source 2 (Dota 2).