In short
- Choose RPFView for GTA V Enhanced, Red Dead Redemption 2 or GTA IV files, textures, models to Blender as GLB or OBJ, clothing and weapon images for FiveM and RedM, and batch jobs from the command line.
- Choose OpenIV for GTA V Legacy mods that come as
.oivpackages, audio, and model work in 3ds Max or ZModeler through openFormats. - Choose CodeWalker for Map and world editing, and getting edited models back into the game through Sollumz in Blender.
RPFView is made by the people who run this site, so read the table with that in mind. Every line about OpenIV and CodeWalker comes from their own pages (listed below, checked October 2026). Where those pages don't say, the table says so.
Side by side
| What | RPFView | OpenIV | CodeWalker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no account. | Free; takes donations. | Free. |
| Source code | Not public. | Not public. | Public on GitHub. |
| GTA V Legacy | Yes. | Yes. | Yes. |
| GTA V Enhanced | Beta: browse, search, extract and export, and edit archives. Textures can be viewed and exported, not edited yet. | No official support. Community patches and loaders such as OpenRPF exist. | Its source includes a converter that turns Legacy assets into Enhanced (Gen9) ones. |
| mods folder and loaders | Offers to copy an archive to the mods folder before you edit it, and saves archives in the OPEN format that OpenIV.asi and OpenRPF load. It does not install a loader. | Uses the mods folder, and its ASI Manager installs OpenIV.asi for GTA V Legacy. | Not part of CodeWalker. |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | Beta: browse, search and export archives, textures as PNG or DDS, models in 3D and as GLB or OBJ, clothing images for RedM. Archives cannot be edited. | Basic support since version 4.0, without editing. | No; GTA V only. |
| GTA IV | Beta: browse, edit and export .img and RPF archives, edit .wtd textures, view and export models. | Yes, its original game: archive editing and viewers for its common files, also for the episodes. | No. |
| Texture editing | Replace, add, rename and remove textures in GTA V Legacy .ytd and GTA IV .wtd files, converted to the format the game expects. | Yes, with its texture editor for .ytd files. | Yes, textures can be replaced in its texture editor. |
| Model export | glTF (.glb, textures inside) and OBJ with PNG textures, one at a time or in batches. For Blender and other 3D tools. | openFormats text files, used by 3ds Max (GIMS Evo) and ZModeler. | XML files, which the Sollumz add-on imports into Blender. |
| Edited models back into the game | No. Models can be exported, not imported. | Yes, through openFormats. | Yes, through XML (for example from Sollumz). |
| Map and world editing | No. Map files (.ymap, .ytyp) open as readable XML, but there is no 3D map. | Not listed on its download page. | Yes: a 3D view of the world and a project window for editing .ymap files. |
| Audio | No. | Yes: edits .awc audio and exports it as .wav. | Not listed in its README. |
| Mod packages (.oiv) | No. | Yes, with its Package Installer. | No. |
| Clothing, weapons and images | Drawable Studio (clothing on a character), Weapon Studio (tints, attachments, camos) and the Thumbnail Generator (an image of every clothing item and weapon, for FiveM and RedM). | Not listed on its download page. | Not listed in its README. |
| Command line | rpfview-cli: find, extract, convert to XML, export textures and models, search game text; JSON output for scripts and AI agents. Read-only towards the game. | No command-line tool listed. | Start options only (explorer, menu), no batch commands. |
| Updates | Updates itself at startup. A stable channel and an experimental one built from every change. | The latest version on gta5-mods.com is 4.1. | Its GitHub page lists no releases; new builds are shared by its author. |
Betas in RPFView are marked as such in the app; every change is in the changelog.
Using them together
The tools don't get in each other's way. RPFView saves GTA V archives in the same OPEN format as OpenIV, and both put edited archives in the game's mods folder. The game only loads that folder with a loader such as OpenIV.asi (Legacy) or OpenRPF (Enhanced), which RPFView does not install. Mods are for single player: changed game files in GTA Online or Red Dead Online can get an account banned.
More about RPFView: all features, frequently asked questions and the command-line reference.
Sources
Checked October 2026. If something here is out of date, please tell us.