A KF5 update of KIO-VTF-Thumb-Creator by Mathias "Panzi" Panzenböck.

Run build_and_install.sh to build and install (duh).

Notes

• Depends on VTFLib.
• Pass -DUSE_LIBTXC_DXTN=OFF when generating VTFLibs build files if you don't want to have to download, build and install libtxc_dxtn first.
• Ensure you have the necessary Qt5 and KF5 development packages installed. (you're unfortunately on your own wrt figuring out exactly which packages those are, as I can't find any concrete answers to that myself...)

TODO

• Fix DXT1 alpha bug.
• Find out if there's a way to require that a file has both the .vtf extension and VTF\x00 magic to fix VPK thumbnail bug.
• Maybe add animated hover-over preview for animated textures.

Preview

Original README

KIO Thumbnail VTF Plugin

Plugin for KDE KIO thumbnail to load Valve Texture Files (read-only). Using this you will be able to preview VTF files in KDE programs like Dolphin.

For a general read-only integration into Qt applications (e.g. view VTF files in Gwenview) see qvtf and for the same for Gtk+ see pixbufloader-vtf.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/panzi/KIO-VTF-Thumb-Creator.git
mkdir KIO-VTF-Thumb-Creator/build
cd KIO-VTF-Thumb-Creator/build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

To enable previews in Dolphin open the settings dialog (Control -> Configure Dolphin...) and enable Valve Texture Format under General -> Previews.

Dependencies

• VTFLib

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.