2023-06-18 10:34:44 -04:00

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Development Roadmap

0.3.3.0

This release will be primarily focused on improving the user interface.

  • Add a settings window
  • Add donation information

0.3.X.0

These releases will likely focus on preparing for the next major milestone.

  • Remove native dependencies
    • Replace crunch with managed code
    • Implement support for decoding Bc textures with managed code for non-multiples of 4
  • Make all dependencies trimmable
  • Nuget feed for forked dependencies
  • NativeAOT compilation for better performance while loading and extracting

0.4.0.0 / 1.0.0.0

This release might focus on improving the user experience in the GUI.

Planned But Unscheduled

  • Import
    • Script Import
      • Use type trees for assembly reconstruction
    • Asset Loading
      • Extract assets and save to disk for lower ram usage
  • Export
    • Script Export
      • Hybrid script export
      • Assembly renaming
    • Audio Export
      • WWise audio extraction
    • Shader Export
      • Replace all shaders on materials with a built-in shader (for example, the Standard shader)
    • Miscellaneous Export
      • Copy plugins folder into output
    • Selective Export
      • Export Selected object to folder
      • Export Selected object to compressed zip file
    • Primary Content Extraction
    • Binary Export
      • SerializeFile writing as an alternative to yaml export.
  • UI
    • Improved Asset previews
      • Preview decompiled scripts
      • Add a Mesh preview
      • Scene preview
      • Font preview
      • Add a Material preview
      • Add a TypeTree Viewer
      • Improve the Audio preview
        • Fast-forward and rewind
        • Seek-bar for selecting playback position
        • Visual wave form display
      • Generic asset preview
        • Add a Hex Viewer
    • Preferences window
    • Window for licensed works
  • Asset editing

Concept Ideas

Note: This is just a collection of ideas. These might not be desirable or feasible, so many of them might never be implemented. Do not interpret their inclusion here as any form of commitment.

  • GUI quality of life features
    • Font setting
    • Configurable keybindings
  • Console
    • Enterable commands
  • Find all references
  • Search Window
    • Dedicated window
    • Filters for various asset types
    • Filters for files
    • Might be redundant due to tree view search
  • Tree View Search
    • Filters for various asset types
    • Name filter
    • Rows limit
    • Result count
    • Option to group resources
  • Tabs
    • Inspector Tab
      • Tag
      • Layer
      • ID
      • File name
      • Asset Specific Properties
        • Sortable
        • Selectable with indepth description below
    • Moveable Tabs
    • Error Tab
  • Import Settings
    • Ignore scenes option
    • Import bundle as level
    • Assembly de-obfuscation
  • Performance Improvements
    • Asynchronous import/export
  • Filtered Export
    • Resources (png, wav, avi, obj, ...)
    • Prefabs
    • Scripts
  • Asset Bundle Construction
    • Editing and Repacking of games and asset bundles
    • Asset Header Editor
    • Asset Duplication and Creation
    • Asset Editing and Replacement
    • Copy and paste assets
    • Prefab Creation
  • Asset Exporting
    • Video Export (avi, mp4, etc)
    • Allow saving any text information to a text file
      • Alternatively, ensure that all text can be selected and copied
    • Export as Prefab
    • Export as Unitypackage
    • Node Dump
  • Asset Previews
    • Meshes
      • Colored semi-transparency
      • Triangle count
      • FPS meter
      • Corner cube for orientation
      • XYZ axis for orientation
      • Toggle face cull
      • Wireframe option
    • Textures
      • Background options (for example: checkers, white, black, default)
      • Select the color channels to display
        • For example, disable the alpha channel
        • Or show only the blue channel
    • Font Assets
    • Video Display
    • Animations
    • Scripts
      • view as text
      • notify if script missing