This project provides developers with libraries that enable them to read common files that are mainly used by Bohemia Interactive for their games of the ArmA series, like rapified configs (config.bin), textures (*.paa,*.pac), skeletal animations (*.rtm), game file container (*.pbo) etc.
Note
This is a fork created specifically for PboSpy. The original repository can be found here, and another currently active fork by one of the main contributors can be found there.
The basic idea is to create a central and public code base for those ArmA file formats, that is easy to use and integrate into a project. Ideally, this project would become the one stop shop for every developer working with those file formats. Such efforts have not had much success in the past and with this project some of the common reasons for this are tried to be avoided (see Features).
By providing small packages you can keep your project slick and don't need to include huge libraries with stuff you do not care about.
The libraries are created using the .NET Standard. This makes it possible to use the libraries in most .NET applications and or libraries regardless of it being a .NET Core, .NET Framework, Mono, UWP or Xamarin application or library. With .NET Core being available on most platforms a good degree of platform-independence is achieved. You also can choose from a lot of programming languages to write a .NET application, like C#, F#, C++/CLI, VB.NET and many more.
By making all the libs available as NuGet packages, integrating a library into your project becomes a breeze.
However, it doesn't feel right to publish these packages on NuGet.org, as I'm not a major contributor. So I push them to a personal Github NuGet package registry. If you prefer packages to source dependencies, you can find them at https://nuget.pkg.github.com/rvost/index.json.
See the NuGet registry documentation and this blog post on how to consume them.
Warning
Note that package identifiers start with BIS.Formats rather than BIS to avoid name clashes with (completely unrelated) packages on NuGet.org.
The code you can find here is basically a little reorganized dump of some of the code that I created over the years researching those file formats. It currently basically enables you to read most files. It probably is often missing important accessors or functions that would be useful for a public API and I hope by putting this as an open source project that a lot of people will contribute to make this code base useful. So I highly encourage everyone to post some PRs to make this a great API.
End of original README
This fork is in maintenance mode and only changes required by PboSpy are made. But I'm considering backporting changes from other forks to be available in packages.
Currently, packages are being built for .NET Standard 2.0 according to the original project vision, but it is possible that migration to the .NET LTS version may occur in the future.