examples

[mild dew]

chuck some examples up on there. currently I use PNGGauntlet for lossless png compression, would be nice to see how this works for VTFs and I need to do some compression on them as well.

I have some mid/large size vtfs both animated and non animated if you need test files

[kindred ember]

it currently doesnt do animated vtfs

it never did, i was working on it but i simply wasnt able to do it as there is no real documentation for vtflib which is a pain to use

[gilded dew]

hey you should look at this and see if you can add anything to yours https://github.com/Shark-vil/GmodAddonCompressor

[kindred ember]

does that work with animated textures

[gilded dew]

I am unsure

[crystal bridge]

I know I use the Rabbit hole metaphor too often, but you also have to consider spritecards and cubemaps, also hdr files, if you somehow manage to read the headers you have to see vtf resources files which contains all it data

[wispy dew]

@kindred ember Could removing any of these files cause invisble models for some players?

I used your modelformat remover and have screenshots of my players seeing invisible models now

[kindred ember]

i haven't had this issue at all yet and I've been using it for a while now

is there anything in their console?

[wispy dew]

I wasn't able to get their console. Is there anycase where the game falls back to dx8 models? and such it was missing?

[kindred ember]

not that i know of

only hammer / nvidia raycasting might

[mild dew]

@kindred ember i dont think this supports animated vtfs directly right? i have animated vtfs that have no right taking up so much file space, i dont have the original frames though. any idea on how i would go about reducing these filesizes?

[kindred ember]

i dont think it works with those no

you can use vtf edit, export it as pngs resize the pngs, reimport

[mild dew]

i have a lot of vtfs, so im going to spend more time trying to automate it then it wouldve taken to just do it manually 💀