C++ Titanfall BSP Reader/editor

As a prep before I ship, I decided to make the textures folder optional. If you don’t select a textures folder it falls back to a different color for different materials. I added a little option for that

It also now pulls the missing texture image from a local path now. I did a small bugfix for the settings too, it used to not save now it does.

I also removed the shaders from last devlog bc it made more things buggy and reduced the overall experience.

Demos

• New Folder Option Thingy
• Map without textures loaded
• Map with textures loaded (note not all of them load)

Changelog

• updated to a nicer version of texture loading
• Added basic openGL textures

I created better texture stuff but I’m going to have to remove it for DX11, it was great insight into how the games textures work tho. I also learned how to write OpenGL shaders (only a little bit)

So I added textures (kinda) turns out I have to recode the whole things to use DX11 and not OpenGL. It also needs shaders and so thats all next.

But this is a 12h 11m devlog, and thats because I decided to add my Titanfall testing folders into the projects. Here is a rundown:

Titanfall 2 Modding: this is the folder that has all of the unpacked VPK’s so I can load the maps or anything from a certain map (is missing textures those are in the rpaks)

Titanfall2: Game Dir

source-sdk-2013: For taking a look at old source engine logic (Titanfall is based off of source after all)

milkyway.restore - Copy: for testing BSP stuff in game

NewMapTester: Also for testing BSP stuff in game

This one is a bit odd, I deiced to make it load textures now, but because I’m using this as a way to learn OpenGL I had no idea how to to that. I deiced that I didn’t want to add all of the texture loading right away bc that seemed kinda hard, SO I i just made it load the missing texture file. Then I saw that there was some bugs with the code for vertex stuff. It wouldn’t put stuff in the right spot so I tried to rework the whole system. That didn’t work so well. I also made it so when you scroll it speeds up/slows down the camera movement speed.

I went back and added anti-aliasing tho is it looks nicer now :)

Next I need to fix the vertex stuff for real and add the ability to use the vtf textures

I fixed the settings menu and added better camera movement
You can no disable different vertex types and move the camera in 3d, pretty short and sweet BUT I started making the camera in Y up and not in Z up but I fixed it :)

Change log

• Create a working viewer (e15a42c)
• added camera controls and fixed settings (53cec8e)

I spent some time making the UI look better, and added a OpenGL Viewer to it so it can now load the vertex/faces of the maps. It was really hard to get working, and the settings page is still not working lol.

Demos

• Image of window (loading file)
• Image of loaded file

Changelog

• fixup Game_Lump
• created better Game_Lump
• update
• added file opening
• update
• obj files - sorta
• added file?
• changed files around
• added qt and moved titanfall2bspdata
• rest of read
• added all the way to lump 127
• went back thru and checked sizes, added up to lump 94, fixed Entity_Partitions so now it’s right

I added the rest of the 127 lumps (128 if counting 0) and also added a read function each for of them. Next up is editing, GUI, and then a render for the 3d bits.

I went back thru and implemented checks for every struct size, I also added up to lump 94 now (no read on them tho). I also got Entity_Partitions reading right :)

I moved the structs into their own header file, I also added a read function for each of the 73 current lumps I have added. While I was at it I improved the logging. More time consuming work than hard work. Didn’t feel like 3 hours tho 💀

To start this off I added 73 of the 127 need lump structs and made it read off the PLANES lump.
Not much other stuff, A lot of configuring cmake and other stuff like that.