Disciples III Tool

dis3tool is utility tool to convert Disciples III texture, geomtry, animation and camera resources.

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version 1.1 pass: dis3tool-1.1-2025

version 1.0.1 pass: dis3tool-1.0.1-2024

Features

• Convert between DIII texture *.t and DDS texture *.dds
• Convert between DIII geometry *.g and glTF format *.gltf
• Convert between DIII scene *.scene and glTF format *.gltf
• Convert between DIII camera *.camera and glTF format *.gltf
• Extract *.vdpack and *.vdpatch files
• Bulk conversion
• Scale DIII geometry

Supported versions

• Disciples III: Renaissance
• Disciples_III: Resurrection
• Disciples_III: Reincarnation

Formats

*.vdpack and *.vdpatch

A simple container to pack set of files to one file. Header contains number of files, file name, size, flags and offset in pack with actual file content.

type	name	repeat	description
header
u32	count		number of resources
item[]	items	count	resources
u8[]	resources	count	content of each resource(file)
item
string	name		file name of resource
u32	size		size of resource in bytes
u32	offset		offset of resource data in bytes from beggining of file
u32	flags		flags, usually 0
string
u32	length		length of string including zero
u8[]	value	length	string value in UTF-8
u8	zero		zero

*.t

Just .dds format with custom (badly designed) header.

type	name	repeat	description
header	header		texture metadata
u8[]	data	till eof	texture data
header			59 bytes
u32	-		1
u32	type		texture type
			1=R5G6B5 2=A4R4G4B4 3=A1R5G5B5 4=R8G8B8 5=A8R8G8B8 6=DXT1 7=DXT3 8=DXT5
u32	cubemap		is cubemap
u32	mipmap		number of mipmaps
u32	width		texture width
u32	height		texture height
u8	-		0 or 1
u8	-		0 or 1(once)
u8	-		0
u8	-		0
u8[]	-	3	0 or 2
u32	-		0 or 2
u32	-		0 or 1
u32	-		0 or 1
u32	frames		number of frames
u32	-		0
f32	-		fps 15.0/0.0/30.0(once)/1.0(once)
u32	-		0

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