Hl2Parse up on GitHub (Java library)

[Terr]

I finally got around to putting the Hl2Parse library (which I created for PackBSP) up on GitHub.

Github link

There's an interesting mix of stuff where I tried to handle everything and the kitchen sink and other areas where it's a very quick-and-dirty way to parse just the data I want out of files.

Of interest:

• Map materials
• Map entity data
• Steam's ClientRegistry.blob
• Various "Valve Data Format" files (soundscapes, material files)
• FGD files
• MDL files
• PHY files

I'm currently working on a separate branch, exploring how to parse the DMX/PCF format and possibly converting some of the binary-format code to use Preon rather than raw byte manipulation.

[Terr]

For coders in other languages, I should also mention that the ANTLR grammar files for FGDs and Valve's key/value format can be used to build parsers in the language of your choice.

[hekar]

Wow, great job. What I did was convert keyvalue files into JSON through a series of regex and hacks, then parsed them using a JSON library.

Thanks for sharing the library, man. I bet this will help many people