QuickPack

Utility for quickly and conveniently packing model, material, texture, and sound dependencies in Half-Life 2 BSP maps.

Automatically packs materials used in custom models, unlike Pakrat. Furthermore, it only packs used materials for models with multiple skins!

To use:

• Install Python 3.8 from https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Run QuickPack.py from a command prompt, with the full path to your map as the only argument. Example:
  QuickPack.py "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life 2\hl2\maps\mymap.bsp"

Your map must be located in the (game root)/maps folder. This program only runs on windows (as it uses bspzip.exe)

New feature: File whitelists and blacklists:

• To force the program to pack specific files and their dependencies, make a mapname.pack.txt file in your maps folder with one filename on each line. Filenames should be relative to the game root, for example: materials/specialtexture.vmt
• To force the program not to pack specific files and their dependencies, make a mapname.nopack.txt file in the maps folder. You can now use regular expressions.. For example, to prevent all materials in the "materials/external/" directory from packing, add a line to the file containing materials/external/.*

New feature: Minify VMTs: Removes comments whitespace, and other junk from vmts to clean up and save a tiny bit of space. Pass --minify-vmt. This feature is in beta, so check over the result before shipping anything.

If you experience any problems, or would like features to be added, please start an issue!