v0.11.0

Note

On Linux, required glibc version has been temporarily bumped from 2.34 to 2.38 due to Canonical's launchpad PPA
being targeted by Iranian hackers. To Iranian hackers: please target Palantir and stop breaking my CI runners, thanks!

General

• Use PO2 Nearest resize mode by default instead of PO2 Bigger
• Allow creating animated cubemaps from HDRI image sequences
• Allow creating skyboxes from HDRIs
• Allow creating animated skyboxes from HDRI image sequences

GUI

• Add texture preview minimap
• Add option to disable minimap or set size to 3 presets
• Fix severely degraded performance zooming far into a transparent image with checkerboard background enabled
• Fix transparent checkerboard background jitter when zooming image, checkerboard is now static relative to window
• Support drag-n'-drop in mane window
• Add tiled texture preview
• Add options for high-quality thumbnails and minimaps (more performance intensive)
• Restructure create dialog to greatly reduce vertical size
• Change compression level into a percentage in create dialog
• Show error messages when VTF fails to be created from create dialog
• Show VTF file size in details dock
• Add option to allow multiple running instances
• Reorder "(Console) Mipmap Scale" to match all other uses of "(Console)" as a suffix

CLI

• Support percentages from 0-1 for compression level
• Use proper output paths when creating multiple VTFs at once
• Fix TTY check to support macOS and other POSIX platforms
• Fix processing animated image sequences when start frame is greater than zero

v0.10.4

GUI

• Reorganize create dialog into three tabs: "Texture", "Flags", and "Resources", and make all tabs scrollable
  • Fixes popup sometimes leaving the bounds of the monitor on smaller resolutions and themes with lots of padding
• Add new customization options
  • "Raise When Opening New File" - raise window to top when a new tab is opened
  • "Show Tab Bar for Single File" - self-explanatory
• Compression quality setting in create dialog is now an opt-in to greatly reduce creation time for BC7 textures
• Resize method and clamp mode are no longer exclusive settings in create dialog
• Default CPU compression level is lowered slightly in create dialog
• Fix window not being raised to top when a new tab is opened on Windows

v0.10.3

General

• Named flag filename suffixes are no longer case-sensitive
• Add support for "Author Info" nonstandard resource

GUI

• Allow specifying multiple input files for create dialog
• Fix quality in create dialog always being slammed to 100%
• Fix crash when disabling color channels when alpha is disabled
• Automatically disable garbage alpha channel when opening cubemaps
• Add i18n support
  • WIP localizations for Spanish, Japanese, Russian
• Display licenses from all dependencies in credits dialog
• "About Qt" popup button has been moved to credits dialog

CLI

• Allow specifying multiple input files with -i/--input
  • PATH positional argument still exists, it is now optional when input is otherwise specified
• Add four more create TF lines
  • (Read Pandemic, great MLP fanfic that inspired most of the new lines)

v0.10.2

GUI

• Fix combo boxes and spin boxes eating user scroll events when scrolling in scroll areas
• Middle-click now properly closes texture tabs
• Fix fully transparent pixels still showing as black when alpha channel is disabled
• Clean up generated CLI command from create dialog a bit
• Allow setting application's Qt theme
• Allow disabling Discord rich presence
• Fix dock windows having ampersands in their titles on Windows
• Revert @goodusername12345's better compressed image patch (for now) since it's a bit desaturated in Qt, and we don't ship required image format plugin for it so it won't load on Windows

Thumbnailer

• Integrate thumbnail providers from vtf-thumbnailer for Windows and Linux file explorer previews
  • vtf-thumbnailer is now abandonware, MareTF replaces it
• Draw all cubemap faces in cubemap thumbnails
• Fix cubemap thumbnails using garbage alpha data

v0.10.1

General

• Fix being unable to apply NO_LOD flag when creating a texture with mipmaps
• Change pretty flag name list to use "mipmap" instead of "mip" where possible
• Rename TFALL2 format prefix to TITANFALL
• Use 64-bit installer application on Windows (thanks @lunairekitty!)
• Ship tls binaries on Windows
• Use the appropriate Qt6Network binary in the Windows compatibility build
• Add binary builds for Strata Source games
  • Intended to be shipped with Portal 2: Community Edition, but can be used by any Strata Source game
  • Version defaults to 7.6 instead of 7.4 to take advantage of new branch-exclusive features by default

GUI

• Add button to copy the CLI command generated internally by the create dialog
• Remember last used location for create dialog file or folder selection
• Use the same directory as the input file when opening the create dialog filesystem output path selection
• Trim splash image by 2.3mb (thanks @goodusername12345!)
• Discord rich presence is now optional and can be toggled on/off in the "Options" menu
  • Note that Discord rich presence will never show details of files you have open, and is only used to advertise the application
• Shrink dead space in Preview dock a bit
• Rename "Create en Masse" to "Create from Folder"
• Rename "Invert Green" to "Invert Green Channel"
• Specified "Mip Scale" was for console textures

CLI

• Fix edit mode adding cubemap faces to the texture when changing platform or version

v0.10.0

General

• Add support for Titanfall 2 BC6H, BC7 formats
• Add support for compressed HDR formats used in cubemaps
• Add new v6 flag, IGNORE_PICMIP
• Update flag descriptions to make clear the last two bits are set internally in TF2
• Fix conversion of X360, PS3 cubemap textures to PC platform
• Update Kaiser/NICE filtering algorithms to be higher quality
  • Use NICE filtering by default everywhere instead of Kaiser, right now it's better and is more accurate to Source
• Fix ATI2N red/green channels being swapped
• Fix ATI2N blue channel computation
• Switch to negrutiu's NSIS fork for Windows installers
• Lower glibc requirement on Linux

GUI

• Implement creation dialogs for singular textures and folders
• Open files in the running application instead of creating a new instance
• Add net preview for cubemaps
• Add color channel toggles to preview
• Add "Save Image" context menu entry, reads directly from the VTF image data
• Rename "Compression" to "CPU Compression" in mane window
• Use "px" suffix in spinboxes where appropriate

CLI

• Add -s/--size, --width, --height, --max-size, --max-width, --max-height, --min-size, --min-width, --min-height to create mode
• Add --hdri-autodetect to create mode, will enable --hdri if processing a 2x1 decimal image
• Add --set-size to edit mode
• Allow setting console ints in LOD setter in create and edit modes
• Add --flags-uint to create mode to directly set flags
• Add --add-flags-uint, --remove-flags-uint to edit mode to directly manipulate flags
• Change --crc-resource and --ts0-resource to accept unsigned ints
• Add new possible messages printed in create mode (thanks @lunairekitty!)

v0.9.3

• Tweak desktop file to fix problems launching the GUI on systems with an NVIDIA GPU (thanks @cueki!)
• Reuse existing mip data when downscaling a VTF when possible
• Improve I8 greyscale calculation (uses the formula Asahi Lina posted for sRGB RGB->Y, uses regular standard formula for linear format)
  • Before this release it was just using the red channel
• Fix swizzling issues with XBOX platform for non-square textures and/or textures with non-power of 2 pixel widths
• Fix stalls creating or opening certain XBOX platform textures
• Even when only one texture is open, keep tab bar visible so it's immediately obvious the GUI supports loading multiple textures at once

v0.9.2

• Fix support for mipmapped textures for PS3 Orange Box platform (mips go in XBOX/DDS order)
• Prevent creating compressed NPO2 textures that will not work in Source
• Properly report errors creating VTFs, and stop creating broken textures when an error occurs
• Always set the appropriate file extension for the given platform
• Make internal VTF object state more consistent for loading malicious/broken files
• Fix parsing semitransparent PSD input files
• Replace --no-animation with --animated-frames to opt in to creating animated textures from individual frames
• Pretty-print hotspot rect flags in info mode

Next release will focus on the GUI

v0.9.1

• Fix bug causing the VTF resource directory to be corrupted when written
• Optimize icon on Windows (thanks goodusername12345!)
• Add --verbose to disable --quiet when enabled
• Enable --yes, --quiet, and --no-pretty-formatting when running outside a TTY (e.g. a CI environment, piping output, etc.)
• Fix --set-compression-method being mapped to the wrong variable internally
• Fix ATI2N encoding swapping the R and G channels
• Fix ATI2N decoding not providing a B channel

v0.9.0

Caution

This release has some known bugs:

• Resource dictionary is sometimes written incorrectly, corrupting the texture
• Conversion from some VTFs to v7.6 (details to come) will corrupt the resulting texture

Remain on v0.8.0 until a new version is released.

General

• Correctly parse/write VTFs with non-po2 mips down to 1x1
• Correctly parse/write mipmapped volumetric VTFs
• Correctly parse/write VTFs with compressed mips that have non-multiple-of-4 dimensions
• Write image data last on VTF platforms/versions that use resources to prevent errors when mip skipping is enabled
• Add names to flags used by vtex
• Allow getting/setting console mip scale value

CLI

• Reorder resource output in info mode to match order in VTF (sorted numerically by threeCC code)
• Print information about palette and fallback resources in info mode when given an XBOX format texture
• Fix gamma correction default value (1/2.2, not 2.2)
• Fix gamma correction crashing in create mode when given an RGBA8888 input image
• Set default output file extension to .xtf in create mode when creating XBOX platform textures
• Set default quality in create mode to maximum by default if the format is compressed and not BC7/BC6H
• Fix PC -> XBOX conversion for cubemaps

GUI

• Add resource previews for palette and fallback resources
• Fix platform combo displaying "PC" for XBOX
• Change cursor when panning a texture to a grabby hand
• Add context menu to copy displayed portion of a texture to clipboard and change current zoom/pan
• Fix reflectivity block to always show the correct values of each color component
• Add border color in reflectivity block that matches the texture's gamma-corrected stored reflectivity (if a valid color)
• Don't allow the user to hide the top toolbar in the startup window