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Browse the Guild Wars .dat file. Included features:

• Search and filter the internal files in the dat.
• Render all maps (including maps not accesible in-game).
• Fly around and explore the maps in first person.
• Export and import full maps and models to Blender.
• View and export different model/mesh LODs (level of detail): High, Medium Low.
• Compare and switch between multiple .dat files easily.
• Give each file inside the .dat a custom name for easy reference. Or load the data provided by other users (shared through csv files).
• Hex editor viewer of files.
• Playback of audio files.
• Extract 3D models, textures, rendered maps and more.
• And more.

• Acquire a Guild Wars .dat file. It is automatically downloaded to the same folder as Gw.exe when you first launch Guild Wars.You can download Guild Wars at:https://www.guildwars.com/en/download. It doesn't require an account.
• Download GuildWarsMapBrowser.exe fromreleases and run it.
• To import into Blender see the guide in the release notes or checkthis reddit post

Here is an preview of Monastery Overlook as seen rendered in GuildWarsMapBrowser (with fog disabled):and pre-Searing Ascalon City (with fog enabled):And here is an example of rendering some models:

And imported Pre-searing Ascalon City in Blender:

Golem imported in Blender:

Viewing textures in Guild Wars Map Browser:

Audio playback and controls:

Export all maps to png or dds in any resolution (up to 16384x16384):

Select props and get info about them, hide/show them or cleanup maps to your preference before extracting to dds or png:

To build just clone the repository and open the .Sln in Visual Studio. Build in x86 mode (release or debug). Cannot build 64-bit.

SeeCONTRIBUTING.MD

Decompressing the .dat file uses the source code from:

• GWDatBrowser
  • Specifically I use: AtexAsm.h/cpp, AtexReader.h/cpp, GWUnpacker.h/cpp, xentax.h/cpp
• The Guild Wars community for being supportive, reporting bugs and showing interest in the project.
• Thanks toDubble for rewriting some texture decoding functions from ASM to C++.