Depressurizer VS ValveResourceFormat

Another thing you can do is use a Steam tag management system like Depressurizer to automatically tag games with their approximate HLTB time (eg. 1-5 hours could be a category, 6-10 hours could be another category), then on Steam Deck you can use the Tab Master plugin for Decky to show each HLTB categories as a separate tab. There are probably other ways to display the categories as well.

Lucky for you https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer was -Dead- for many years past after New Steam Library but resurrected last year and it's the perfect tool for organizing your games.

Strange? I was going to mention, in the past, there was this great tool called Depressurizer that can help you but after New Library introduced few years ago so that project gone dead, unable to adapt to the new system. But you must be lucky that https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer has a "New" release that may include HLTB info like they did in the past.

I did this once and Steam deleted my meticulously sorted system so I figured it was never worth the effort again. Depressurizer is a tool to do it for you based on some basic filtering.

It stopped working long time ago & that's why that project is no longer working. Also this isn't a bug as Valve never intended anyone to tamper with sharedconfig. Even if you may still see that file in Steam installation, it's kept for backwards compatibility & backup instead of new library is kept in an enigmatic coding in some another file.

You can use something like https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer to Categorize the games for you.

Use https://github.com/Depressurizer/Depressurizer. This will allow u to categorize the games to ur liking. plus u can use favorites to categorize the games that ur currently playing while collapsing all the other categories. this may help with the clutter

Not 100% sure if it has data export functionality, but if it does then Depressurizer might be worth checking out.

Get https://vrf.steamdb.info/

Use this: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/ValveResourceFormat

Your research will be able to find a published report of a similar story in \materials\effects\coconut\ in the tf2_textures VPK structure (if you do not have either already, use a tool like GCFScape or Valve Resource Viewer to get into it).

You can also extract the textures using VRF https://vrf.steamdb.info/ to decompile the valve pak files and then use crowbar https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Crowbar to extract the textures from the relevant vtexc files. You could probably get the models this way too, but I haven't tried it yet. You'll also need the Blender Source Tools https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Blender_Source_Tools if you're aiming to open them in blender.

Well, it's a wee bit taboo but if you use software like the source 2 resource viewer (it works on source 1 also, I checked) then you can view and export the hidden files of the game. Then you can use software like crowbar to convert models, textures, and animations from their original .mdl, .vtf, .dmx, and .smd files into more general use and palatable .obj, .tga, and .qc files. And then use the blender source toolsto export them back into source to after modifying.

If you do not have either already, use a tool like GCFScape or Valve Resource Viewer to get into the VPK file structure.

Thanks to VRF (Source 2 Resource Viewer) (also, thanks /u/xpaw - give him a follow!) we can browser Panorama UI source code (and of course other Source 2 files) in the all-new Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test.

TF2's copy is located in \steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\hl2\hl2_misc_dir.vpk. Use a tool like GCFScape or Valve Resource Viewer to get into the VPK file structure. Once you're in there, it's \models\extras\info_speech.mdl.

use https://vrf.steamdb.info/ and open "dota 2 beta\game\dota\pak01_dir.vpk"

Check Youtube Guides or so how to use https://vrf.steamdb.info/