QPAKMAN(1)

📦 version 0.67+git20260609, in ubuntu stonking

💖 QPAKMAN — bestie edition 💖

okay so qpakman is literally your girl for managing the PAK and WAD files that the games Quake, Quake II and Hexen II use. that's the whole vibe. it's a general commands manual page, and yes we're doing this together 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

no cap, there are three ways to run her:

qpakman [OPTIONS] FILES -o OUTPUT.pak

qpakman [OPTIONS] IMAGES -o OUTPUT.wad

qpakman [OPTIONS] INPUT.pak/wad

like. you either feed her some files and get a .pak out of it, or feed her images and get a .wad, or just point her at an existing .pak/.wad and see what happens 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one bullet per flag, exactly as written, no notes skipped, periodt.

  • -l, -list — lists what's inside your PAK/WAD file. a little show-and-tell ✨
  • -e, -extract — pulls the PAK/WAD contents out into the current dir. they're free now 🦋
  • -m, -maketex — makes a texture WAD out of BSP files. iconic behaviour 💅
  • -mip — picks the MIP algorithm: 0, 1, or 2 (and 2 is the default, fyi). the breakdown:
    • 0: high-quality downsampling 😌
    • 1: averaging four pixels, then selecting the original color closest to the average 🎨
    • 2: high-quality downsampling, then selecting the original color closest to the downsampling result 🎨✨
  • -c, -colors XXX — loads a color palette from the given file. drop your palette, bestie 🌈
  • -g, -game XXX — selects the game: quake1, quake2, hexen2. pick your fighter 👑
  • -f, -force — overwrites existing files when extracting. careful!! she will absolutely steamroll what's already there 😭
  • -p, -pic — creates PIC format images in the WAD. fancy 🎀
  • -r, -raw — does not convert anything. raw as it comes, no filter, no edit 📸

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

found a bug? not on my watch. please report bugs here:

https://github.com/LibreQuake/qpakman/issues
reminder: every flag above does exactly what it says, nothing more, nothing less. I'm not out here inventing lore 💜

that's the whole page, bestie 🌸 this was QPAKMAN(1), from the General Commands Manual, dated June 2026 — slay, and remember: read the options before you -f anything 💖✨

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