Valve Map Format Utility Library v1.0 Released
Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 2:13PM Valve Software's Source Engine uses a level editor called Hammer. The files produced by Hammer are in the Valve Map Format (VMF), which are simply text files that define the structure of a map. This file gets passed to a BSP (Binary Space Partitioning) compiler that builds the final product.
A little side project of mine called for a library that could parse VMF files and read the interactive parts of a Source Engine map. So, I built one. The result is the VMF Utility Library. It includes a complete parser, writer, object graph, and special classes for common VMF data types (such as color and vertex). The library is open source and includes documentation, along with a Getting Started tutorial.
I haven't put this one up on CodePlex yet, but you can download it directly (ZIP, 200kb).
.net, c#, source engine, valve, vmf 
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Reader Comments (3)
Fantastic work. I've been thinking about writing an alternative to Hammer in C# to overcome its various issues but the VMF parsing put me off; if this is as awesome as I hope it is, you are a godsend.
Thanks for the comment! Admittedly, this is the first time I've written a parser from scratch, so I'm sure it can be done better. For example, there's a bug that causes it to choke when a space doesn't exist between a section name and its opening brace. It should get you started on a path to doing it correctly, though. I didn't end up needing a VMF parser as much as I thought I would, so I'm not sure if this will be updated any further.
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