rw-parser-rs

A high-performance, native Rust parser for RenderWare files (.dff, .txd, .ifp).

This project is a Rust port of the excellent rw-parser-ng, rewritten from the ground up to leverage Rust's performance and safety. The goal is to provide a significantly faster and more memory-efficient alternative for server-side processing and tooling.

Our benchmarks show that rw-parser-rs is approximately 100x faster than its Node.js counterpart for typical DFF parsing tasks.

Features

• Blazing Fast: Native Rust performance for maximum throughput.
• DFF (Model) Parsing: Extracts geometry, materials, frames, and skinning data.
• TXD (Texture Dictionary) Parsing: Extracts texture information and decompresses DXT formats.
• IFP (Animation) Parsing: Extracts animation data for ANP3 and ANPK formats.
• Safe & Robust: Built with Rust's safety guarantees to prevent common parsing vulnerabilities.
• Strongly Typed: Ensures data integrity and a great developer experience.

Installation

Add rw-parser-rs to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rw-parser-rs = "1.0.0"

Usage

use rw_parser_rs::renderware::dff::dff_parser::DffParser;
use std::fs;

fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    // DFF
    let dff_buffer = fs::read("path/to/your/model.dff")?;
    let mut dff_parser = DffParser::new(&dff_buffer);
    let dff_data = dff_parser.parse()?;
    println!("Successfully parsed DFF model: {}", dff_data.version);

    // Similar usage for TxdParser and IfpParser

    Ok(())
}

Development

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/DepsCian/rw-parser-rs.git
2. Build the project: cargo build --release
3. Run benchmarks: cargo bench
4. Generate documentation: cargo doc --open

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License.