The modding tool GTA V players know has headed west. Open the game's archives like folders, find any file, view its textures and models and export what you need, with your game files left untouched, and make clothing images for RedM servers.
Free · Windows 10 & 11 · Installer or portable zip · Red Dead Redemption 2 in beta
Out now, in beta
Now riding in RPFView
Red Dead Redemption 2 opens the way GTA V does: pick it when RPFView starts, or with File → Switch game, and its files are there. Nothing to set up.
Every archive of the game opens like a folder, archives inside archives too.
Search finds a file by name across all of them.
Textures show in the preview and save as DDS or PNG.
Models turn around in 3D, with their textures.
Export saves any file to your PC. The game folder stays as it is.
The game's archives, open in RPFView
Drawable viewer
RDR2 drawables in 3D
The game's models are drawables: .ydr for props and weapons, .ydd for clothing and other sets of models, and .yft for wagons and other things that break. RPFView shows them with their textures and exports them.
Click a .ydr, .ydd or .yft and it turns around in 3D, with the textures the game would give it.
LOD picks the level of detail, Drawable the model inside a .ydd that holds several.
Export saves it as glTF (.glb, textures inside) or OBJ for Blender; Export as… does many at once.
Drawable Studio opens them too: try other textures on a model and export the result. Saving into the game is not possible, because RDR2 archives cannot be edited yet.
Wagons and coaches come out in a plain wood colour: the game picks their paint when they appear. Step by step: export RDR2 textures and models.
The road map
The trail ahead
Red Dead Redemption 2 support arrives in steps, each as a regular RPFView update. Archives, textures, models and RedM clothing images are out; weapon images have no date yet, since every step ships when it works well.
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Out now
Step 1: Archives
Open the game's RPF archives, search every file by name and export what you need.
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Out now
Step 2: Textures
See the game's textures in the preview and save them as DDS or PNG.
Opening, searching and exporting never change a game file.
No game launch
For current game versions the archives open straight away, without starting the game first.
Updates itself
Every new step of RDR2 support reaches you as an update at startup.
Questions
Since RPFView 0.7.0 you can browse and search the game's archives, view its textures, save them as DDS or PNG and export any file. Since 0.8.0 its models show in 3D too, with their textures, and since 0.10.0 the Thumbnail Generator makes images of its clothing and horse gear (for RedM). Choose the game when RPFView starts, or later with File → Switch game.
Support is new, so it is a beta: the archives cannot be edited yet, maps open as text but are not shown in 3D yet, and many files only have a number instead of a name. Every release is in the changelog.
Red Dead Redemption 2, yes, as a beta since RPFView 0.7.0: browse and search its archives, view its textures, save them as DDS or PNG and export files. Since RPFView 0.8.0 its models (.ydr, .ydd, .yft) show in 3D too, with their textures, and export as GLB or OBJ; since 0.9.0 they also open in Drawable Studio, to try and export textures (more). Its archives cannot be edited yet, and its maps open as text but are not shown in 3D yet. Since RPFView 0.10.0 the Thumbnail Generator makes images of its clothing and horse gear for RedM servers, named after the items or the numbers RedM scripts use; weapon images are not available for it yet. More on RPFView for RedM.
No. Opening archives, searching and exporting only read the game's files; nothing in the game folder changes.
RPFView is a separate desktop app: it never runs alongside the game or injects into it. Mods are meant for single player; changing game files for Red Dead Online can get your account banned.
