Mappers, please test a program for me

I've written a program that allows you to embed files into compiled map
files (Edit: for Half-Life 2). The idea is that you can embed custom textures, materials,
models, etc. into the .bsp so that you don't have to distribute them as
extra files with the map (and also so you don't have to mess around
with .res lists to let custom stuff download from servers).

The snag is that it's written in Java, so you'll need the Java Runtime Environment (v1.4.2 or later) to run it.

The program is here:

[url]http://www.gci-net.com/users/k/knot/misc/pakrat.zip[/url]

(it's about 58 kb). It has a readme explaining how it works, etc.

The JRE can be downloaded from here:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

(It's the J2SE JRE link, not the SDK one above it.) Depending on how you download it, it could be up to 15 Mb :sad:

Anyway, I'd appreciate it if anyone could test it and see how it works
for them. I'm particularly interested if someone who's doing custom
model work could try embedding models, since I haven't been able to
test that.

Thanks,

Rof.

Sweet!

Unfortunatly I don't even have any custom resources atm, but I'll definitly remember this program for the future. I assume you have already done some testing?

Yeah, it seems to work fine for textures/materials at least. (I'd
guessed it would, because the pak file is used extensively to hold the
textures and materials used by cubemaps and so on). I haven't tried it
for sounds or model files, but I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.

Yeah, it seems to work fine for textures/materials at least. (I'd
guessed it would, because the pak file is used extensively to hold the
textures and materials used by cubemaps and so on). I haven't tried it
for sounds or model files, but I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.

A deadly mistake to make :smile:

I can't even count how many times this thinking has caused me hours of extra work.

Oh well, looks cool.

all this info, and none of it has any relevance to his inquiry.

you egg heads, you crack me up.

oops, now i am offering unrelated info.

slinks away

Not having any luck here trying to test your program out. I have converted the entire HL wad into source materials and I am using some of the old textures in a map under construction. Installed the Java app. and your program. Picked out a texture to imbed and ran it through the process. Everything appears to happen the way you describe it. When I take a look at the map I dont see the texture in question only the dreaded pink and black (i didnt do it right) texture.

WC.

It seems as though this program won't be neccesary anymore: the latest
Source SDK update adds a program called "bspzip" that performs this
functionality.

sry to tell you but your works seems to be gone to waste.
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=390

The bsp zip looks liek it does what your program dones only its intergrated into steam, probly making it easier to use .

Models work with Pakrat.
Thank you soooo much to the creator if Pakrat. I use it to stuff all my
maps. Soooo much easier then any other, (A.K.A. Winbspzip, BSPzip).

Only thing is, when you go to find your model files, you have to
tell it to show all files. Its default settings only show materials and
their vmts.

Thanx again!

Is it possible to implement WADs to work in HL2? For those lazy people
who can't be bothered or don't know how to convert? Just an interesting
(if not in anyway really good) feature.