README.md

Ba2Tools

Provides managed access to BA2 archives.

Changelog.

Current features:

• Extract files from general archives, including packed files.
• Extract files from texture archives.
• Supports extracting to Stream, not only in file system.
• Support for extraction cancellation and progress reporting.
• BA2Archive instances are thread-safe.

Upcoming features:

• Write BA2 archives

Sample:

using (BA2Archive archive = BA2Loader.Load("Fallout4 - Interface.ba2")) {
    if (archive.TotalFiles >= 1) {
        archive.Extract(
                 fileName: archive.FileList[0],
              destination: "Modding/Interface/",
            overwriteFile: true);
    }
}

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Speed

Extraction speed test on Fallout4 - Textures1.ba2 (extract all files task)

Language	Tool	Extraction time	Notes
C++	ba2extract v0003	0 min 32 secs
C++	B.A.E. v0.0.4	1 min 9 secs	rough GUI measurement
C#	Ba2Tools v0.2.0	1 min 30 secs

Extraction speed test on Fallout4 - Sounds.ba2 (extract all files task)

Language	Tool	Extraction time	Notes
C++	ba2extract v0003	0 min 20 secs
C++	B.A.E. v0.0.4	1 min 35 secs	rough GUI measurement
C#	Ba2Tools v0.5.0	0 min 17 secs

Prerequisites

• .NET Framework 4.5
• Visual Studio 2015
• C# 6.0 compiler

Doxygen

Doxygen support is provided with Doxyfile in root of repository. Docs will be generated in "Docs" folder.