Opens a Guild Wars 2 .dat file and allows the user to browse and extract its files. Currently it supports power-of-two textures, JPEG and WebP Images, models, 126x64 ATEX textures, sound, sound bank, eula, strings and binary files.

When a .dat file is opened, it will first index the file. This makes it a lot faster to re-open the same .dat. Unfortunately, every time the .dat changes it will have to be re-indexed (for now).

Keep in mind that if you keep tree items expanded while the indexer is running, or while an index is being read, the process is a lot slower.

The latest binary can always be found Here

For people who can't run Gw2Browser, download and Install Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 choose vcredist_x64.exe for 64bit and vcredist_x86.exe for 32bit executable.

The modelviewer required GPU with OpenGL 3.3 support.

It can be started with:

Gw2Browser <input dat>

If <input dat> is given, the program will open the file as soon as it starts.

• Model rendering is very experimental. Viewing one may crash the browser, or it may not. It might also use the wrong texture, or it might not. It entirely depends on what model you view, as some models don't have any references to textures (mostly equipment models). Some models also use the second UV channel for rendering while the shader in the browser only uses the first. Loading any model is also far from optimized!

• Non-power-of-two textures are unsupported at the moment. Decompressing one produces garbage blocks. Well, except 126x64 ATEX files. Probably they use custom format for NPOT texture.

• Some sound data in bank file(s) is unsupported. The data seems to be compressed or encrypted. Might investigate on this in future.

• The code architect is messy Need to work on it someday once I understand about code architect thing.

The application used some C++11 features, it required C++11 capable compiler in order to compile it.

Since Gw2Browser and some of required libraries use ranged-base for loop in some area, you will need Visual Studio 2012 or newer in order to compile it, or if you use GCC, you will need GCC 4.8 or better.

• Git for download source code. It also come with Git Bash for use as command prompt to compile some required libraries if using GCC to compile.

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 or better. Express version will work too. or use Visual Studio Community 2013 which have functionality like Professional version, but it free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. (you must register in order to use it tho).

    or
  

• Git

• TDM-GCC 4.8.1 or 5.1.0

• CMake use for build glew when using GCC compiler.

• CodeBlocks for use to open Gw2Browser's CodeBlocks solution file.

• Cppcheck a static code analysis tool for the C and C++.

If using Visual Studio, also download Visual Studio integration add-in for Cppcheck

• gw2DatTools
• gw2formats
• wxWidgets 3.0.2
• OpenGL Mathematics Included
• The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library Included
• libwebp Included
• FreeType Included

• Visual Leak Detector (for use with Visual Studio only)

If you want to use Visual Leak Detector, remove the "//" at #include <vld.h> in Gw2Browser.cpp.

• Compile libwebp using Visual Studio Native Tools Command Prompt, both 32 and 64 bit by use these command at Gw2Browser/extern/libweb directory.

    nmake /f Makefile.vc CFG=debug-static RTLIBCFG=dynamic OBJDIR=obj`
    nmake /f Makefile.vc CFG=release-static RTLIBCFG=dynamic OBJDIR=obj`
  

• Compile wxWidgets using solution file corresponding with your VS version in directory wxWidgets-3.0.2/build/msw. For example, VS2012 is wx_vc11.sln and VS2013 is wx_vc12.sln.

• Compile Gw2Browser using Gw2Browser.sln solution file in Gw2Browser/prj.

• You must add TDM-GCC to your path.

• Open Git Bash command line window.

• Build wxWidgets

1. Open the file: wxWidgets-3.0.2/include/wx/msw/setup.h and change line 788 to:

    #define wxUSE_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT 1
   

2. Change directory of Git Bash window to wxWidgets-3.0.2/build/msw and use these command

    mingw32-make -j 4 -f makefile.gcc CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++11" BUILD=debug
   

   If it give error, re-type it again. Wait for it to finish, then use these command

    mingw32-make -j 4 -f makefile.gcc CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++11" BUILD=release
   

   This will build wxWidgets in debug and release configuration as a static library, or add "SHARED=1" for building dynamiclink library.

    mingw32-make -j 4 -f makefile.gcc CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++11" BUILD=debug SHARED=1
    mingw32-make -j 4 -f makefile.gcc CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++11" BUILD=release SHARED=1
   

3. If you need to rebuild, use "clean" target first.

    mingw32-make -j 4 -f makefile.gcc CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++11" BUILD=debug clean
    mingw32-make -j 4 -f makefile.gcc CXXFLAGS="-std=gnu++11" BUILD=release clean
   

• Build libwebp

1. Change directory of Git Bash window to Gw2Browser/extern/libwebp and use these command

    mingw32-make -f makefile.unix "EXTRA_FLAGS=" "DWEBP_LIBS=" "CWEBP_LIBS=" "GIF_LIBS="
   

• Build glew

1. Use cmake to generate glew's MinGW makefile.

2. Open CMakeCache.txt in Gw2Browser/extern/glew directory and change these line

    CMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=
    to
    CMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-DGLEW_STATIC
   
    CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING=
    to
    CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING=-DGLEW_STATIC
   

3. Change directory of Git Bash window to Gw2Browser/extern/glew and use these command

    mingw32-make
   

• Build freetype

1. Open Command Prompt window (cmd.exe).

2. Change directory to Gw2Browser/extern/freetype and use these command

    mkdir objs
    mingw32-make
   

• Build Gw2Browser

  Open solution file Gw2Browser.workspace in Gw2Browser/prj/. Then, compile gw2DatTools and gw2formats by right click and select as active project and build it, both debug and release build. Then proceed to compile Gw2Browser.

• Khral Steelforge

• Rhoot : Original Gw2Browser and gw2formats
• Joey de Vries : Great OpenGL 3.3 tutorial
• Inigo Quilez : clever normalization of mesh
• David Dantowitz : Simple CRC
• Demonsangel : Noesis script fmt_GW2_pf.py
• hackedd : Idea for fix extraction of uncompressed files larger than 65532 bytes.
• Antoine Hom : gw2DatTools
• Open Icon Library : Icons used in this software
• Liberation Sans Regular : Font used by the model viewer
• Till034 : OnCompareItems function overload
• ral : Information of files in Gw2.dat
• Xtridence : modified GWUnpacker to work with Gw2.dat

• ArenaNet/NCSoft and the team that make Guild Wars 2!

For contributions, please go to this project's page on GitHub.

Guild Wars 2 © 2010-2015 ArenaNet, LLC. All rights reserved. Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, ArenaNet, NCSOFT, the Interlocking NC Logo, and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCSOFT Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright © 2014-2016 Khral Steelforge <https://github.com/kytulendu>
Copyright © 2013 Till034 <https://github.com/Till034>
Copyright © 2012 Rhoot <https://github.com/rhoot>

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extern/glm/*

Copyright (c) 2005 - 2015 G-Truc Creation

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library Copyright (C) 2002-2007, Milan Ikits <milan ikits[]ieee org> Copyright (C) 2002-2007, Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo[]debian org> Copyright (C) 2002, Lev Povalahev All rights reserved.

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Mesa 3-D graphics library Version: 7.0

Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Brian Paul All Rights Reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Copyright (c) 2007 The Khronos Group Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and/or associated documentation files (the "Materials"), to deal in the Materials without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Materials, and to permit persons to whom the Materials are furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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extern/libwebp/*

Copyright (c) 2010, Google Inc. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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extern/freetype/*

Portions of this software are copyright (C) 2015 The FreeType
Project (www.freetype.org).  All rights reserved.

See extern/freetype/docs/FTL.TXT for more details.