A simple CLI utility tool for finding out which WAD of a mod that contains a specific texture.
SteamPipe directories such as _addon and _downloads are automatically searched within.
To find which WAD in CS 1.6 that some_texture exists in:
python whichwad.py C:/Steam/steamapps/Half-Life/cstrike some_texture
Multiple textures can be searched for at the same time by delimiting the
texture names with a semicolon, e.g.: my_texture1;+0_other_texture;!water_texture
The fnmatch library is used to allow for UNIX filename pattern matching.
| Pattern | Match |
|---|---|
* |
matches everything |
? |
matches any single character |
[seq] |
matches any character in seq |
[!seq] |
matches any character not in seq |
(From https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html)
This way you can match any texture name beginning with generic by searching for "generic*".
Textures can also be extracted from the found WAD files using the --extract argument.
The --output argument can be used to specify where to extract the textures to.
python whichwad.py C:/Steam/steamapps/Half-Life/cstrike generic1;generic3 --extract --output C:/projects/cs_banana/extracted
By default extracted textures will be placed in a subfolder of the script named extracted.