Problem
People would like to be able to see what is inside bethesda archves, the list of files contained within and their structure if they were to be unpacked.
Solution
Add a new Preview plugin to handle BSA types that will show a tree view of the folder structure contained in the archive, possibly with some additional information like whether the archive is compressed or not and what options or flags it has set.
Additional context
The plugin could be written in python, but I'm not sure how accessible the already existing BSA parsing features are from a python plugin.
As an alternative to using the Mo2 code to get the archive contents libarch could be used instead, like the BSA Packer plugin currently in development by Epic#5259 .
Al12rs
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4 years ago
Problem People would like to be able to see what is inside bethesda archves, the list of files contained within and their structure if they were to be unpacked.
Solution Add a new Preview plugin to handle BSA types that will show a tree view of the folder structure contained in the archive, possibly with some additional information like whether the archive is compressed or not and what options or flags it has set.
Additional context The plugin could be written in python, but I'm not sure how accessible the already existing BSA parsing features are from a python plugin. As an alternative to using the Mo2 code to get the archive contents libarch could be used instead, like the BSA Packer plugin currently in development by Epic#5259 .