bspzip zip tool

very funny valve.

you give me a tool i was looing for but miss 2 things.

Where is it located?

and...

How do i use it?

anyone know anything about the bspzip tool that was part of the last update?

i am confused, why would valve worry about a file compression program?

please enlighten me.

If you have any custom materials or models it puts them in with the map orph.

I don't think its come out yet.

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting rs6</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>If you have any custom materials or models it puts them in with the map orph.

I don't think its come out yet. </DIV></DIV>
in with? like wadinclude?

Yeah where is it ?????

it's in your sourcesdk\bin folder and it's pretty self explanatory if you just type it at a command prompt and look at the switches.

When you run buildcubemaps it automatically stores the .vmt files for the cubemaps in your BSP the same way, except of course you don't have to use this program for that part. :smile:

I found that WinZIP 9 opens up a bsp file and shows you the cubemaps inside... I don't know if you could store custom materials and models in it that way though.

If you open it on command prompt it explains how you add files into the .bsp

Although the discription it still pretty confusing.

bspzip -extract bspfile blah.zip

bspzip -dir bspfile

bspzip -addfill bspfile relativepathname fullpathname newbspfile

bspzip -addlist bspfile listfile newbspfile

Someone care to explain how to use it then? For us newbies.

I don't see the point really, WinRAR and WinZIP can open them up and you can easily insert custom textures/models etc. inside...

well shoot. i thought this was like wadinclude. :sad:

seems to me, valve has bugs to sort out, they don't have time to release a trademark file compression program.

I thought the same. Actually, I think it is like wadinclude.

I thought you could open up the bsp file and add other files to it.

it's in your sourcesdkbin folder and it's pretty self
explanatory if you just type it at a command prompt and look at the
switches.

Thank you.

hey lep expand please how do i use winrar.winzip to browse and add stuff into bsp

Hmm, WinRAR actually only seems to be able to open up BSP files less than 1mb. I don't know about WinZIP though. But if you can, it's just the same as adding files to a normal ZIP/RAR file.

Thats only because RAR files have a maximum (or maybe a set) dictionary size of about 1 MB I think, so a rar file larger than that is invalid unless its split into smaller sections each compressed seperately (which is how winrar does it if you compress something with it)

1mb? Please, we "download" "films" and they are only 50 rar files, and they end up more than about 700mb total between them.

hey i need to know how this works.

Winrar and winzip doesn't open my bsp(900 k )

tried to add a file with bspzip and it says it added my file(i used the
-addlist option, and writes "file added" only for one of three files).

However, when i play the map that file lack is evident (it's a vehicle script).

bspzip -list confirms this....

Here's a GUI for bspzip...

http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/cftools.php

I used it to include some custom textures in my new level Riot. My vft and vmt files are located in materials\custom - I just browsed to this directory, then specified "materials" in the prefix field.

Make sure you rename the dir containing your custom stuff before trying to load the level in game - if you can see your custom stuff, you then know it worked.

thanks.- but found just now the sdk documentation has been updated and
there are instructions on how to use the tool (and the coorect list
file syntax)

i prefer the command line version. A quick .bat instruction and all files are re-included every time I want.

can somebody teach me how to put my custom textures into a .bsb? I dont know how to use those programs....