UE Viewer

Last update: 06.01.2022

Unreal Engine resource viewer (formerly Unreal Model Viewer) is a program for viewing and extracting resources from various games made with Unreal Engine. Sometimes the program is referenced as "umodel", the short of "unreal" and "model viewer".

 

 

Feature Highlights


  • Loading packages from more than 300 games based on all Unreal engine generations
  • Visualization of skeletal meshes with animations
  • Visualization of internal skeletal mesh information like skeleton hierarchy and binding vertices to the skeleton bones
  • Visualizarion of vertex meshes
  • Visualization of static meshes
  • Viewing supported material types and their internal structure
  • Export of skeletal, vertex and static meshes and animations into formats supported by 3d modeling software and by Unreal engine
  • Export textures into tga or dds format
  • Export sounds, ScaleForm and FaceFX

 

System Requirements


  • Windows OS or Linux
  • CPU with SSE2 support
  • SDL 2.0 (included into package for Windows)
  • OpenGL 1.1 videocard (OpenGL 2.0 is recommended)

 

Restrictions


  • Some material types are unsupported.
  • Additive animations doesn't work.
  • Linux version has no GUI yet, you should use command line to start UE Viewer.

 

Downloads


Win32 versionSize
2.42 MB
Updated
7 July, 2023 - 15:12
1304477 downloads
Linux versionSize
539.22 KB
Updated
7 January, 2022 - 09:59
35541 downloads

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Source code


Source code of UE Viewer is available on GitHub. License is not determined yet.

 

Installation


Extract contents of zip archive to any directory, launch umodel.exe.

 

Command Line


ATTENTION! This site has a few tutorial videos and FAQ. It would be useful (especially for beginners) to watch them before starting to use UE Viewer. The links are available at the top of this page. Below UE Viewer is referenced as "umodel" for simplicity (it's executable file name).

Command line format:

umodel [options] package-name [object-name]

Major options:

viewer options
-meshesexclude non-mesh objects from browsing in viewer mode
  
exporter options
-exportstart umodel in exporter mode
-out=pathset directory for exported files
-ddsexport DXT textures in DDS format
-uncookUE3: umodel would export files to the directories corresponding to their package names where objects were placed by designer before cooking
-groupsdo not use object type (SkeletalMesh, Texture2D etc) for export directory name but use object's group name instead
-soundsallow sound export
-3rdpartyallow ScaleForm and FaceFX export
  
common options
-path=pathset path to the game files; you should enclose path into double quotes when it has spaces inside
-noanim/-nomesh/-nostat/-notexdisable loading of animation/SkeletalMesh/StaticMesh/textures (could be necessary because of umodel incompatibility with particular game)
-game=game tells to umodel that opening file belongs to the particular game; it could be required when umodel is not able to detect game by itself; to get list of available game tags launch umodel with -taglist option
-pkg=package load additional package (you may specify any number of -pkg=... options) 
-ios/-ps3 tells to umodel that you are opening file which was cooked for iOS or PS3 platform (all other platforms are detected automatically)

For full option list launch umodel without arguments.

All options are order-independent. Package name is a full or short name of package. Using short name usually requires -path=... option. Check examples below for explaination.

Command line examples: 

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 HumanMaleA
    display all packaged objects from HumanMaleA

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -meshes HumanMaleA
    display all meshes from HumanMaleA  

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 HumanMaleA MercMaleD
    display mesh MercMaleD from package HumanMaleA

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -export HumanMaleA MercMaleD
    export SkeletalMesh MercMaleD from HumanMaleA package

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -export HumanMaleA MercMaleD
    export SkeletalMesh MercMaleD and all used resources (animation, textures etc)

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -export HumanMaleA BipedMaleA
    export animations (MeshAnimation) BipedMaleA from HumanMaleA package

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -export HumanMaleA
    export all supported objects from HumanMaleA package

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -export *.ukx
    export everything from all ukx files

umodel -path=c:/games/ut2004 -list HumanMaleA
    list contents of HumanMaleA package (object and class names)

umodel -list c:/games/unreal/music/QueenSong.umx
    list contents of QueenSong.umx package from Unreal1. Here is package name specified with full file path.

 

User Interface


Program controlled mostly with keyboard. To get key assignment help, press <H> (help) key. Main keys:

ESCexit from program
Hget key help information
PgUp, PgDown switching between loaded objects
[, ]switch between mesh animations
<, >rewind animation time backward/forward
Space, Xstart animation playback (single and looped)
Ctrl+Aswitch between different animation sets (required for viewing UE3 animations)
Ctrl+Ttag/untag mesh for multipart mesh rendering
Ffocus camera on mesh
Ctrl+Xexport current displaying object
Ctrl+S/Alt+Stake a screenshot; when Alt+S is used backgound will be made transparent
Ctrl+Qtoggle displaying of texts and coordinate system axis

You can rotate camera holding left mouse button, zoom with right mouse button, or pan camera (move alongside screen plane) with middle mouse button.

There is a nice demonstration of viewer capabilities and program control in tutorial videos

 


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