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The text model of Doom 3 and the id Tech 4 games after it, with its animations in .md5anim files. Open one right here in 3D. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your model opens in 3D with its own textures, its parts beside it and its animations on the player under it.
- Turn, zoom and move it • Double click to center on a point
- Every part in a list • Hide one or see it alone
- Its animations • Play, pause and scrub each take
- Export • PNG, GLB, USDZ, STL and OBJ
About MD5MESH
id Software's Doom 3, in 2004, moved its characters by skeletons, each model an .md5mesh and each animation an .md5anim, plain text headed MD5Version 10. Quake 4, Prey and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars use them too, and so do mods and the engines built on Doom 3's released code.
An md5mesh lists its joints, each with its parent, place and turn, then its meshes, each naming a shader whose textures the game's materials define, its vertices placed by weights: a point in each joint's space, added up by its bias. An md5anim keeps each frame's joints as changes from its base frame, with its frame rate and bounds.
Filepeek reads a mesh with the textures named for its shaders, from the files dropped with it, and the md5anims dropped with it as takes on the player. An md5anim alone plays on its own joints.
Doom 3 model
.md5mesh • .md5anim
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- id Software
- Released
- 2004
Inside the file
- Kept as
- Plain text, MD5Version 10
- Joints
- Parents, places and turns
- Vertices
- Placed by weights on joints
- Animations
- .md5anim, a frame at a time
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens an MD5MESH in 3D in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download it or show it as text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open MD5MESH
- WindowsBlender with an add-on • Noesis
- MacBlender with an add-on
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I play an md5anim on its model?
Drop the .md5mesh and its .md5anim files together. Each animation plays on the player, and one dropped alone plays on its own joints.
Why is my model gray?
Its meshes name shaders, like models/props/lantern, and the game finds their pictures through its material files. Filepeek looks for a picture named as the shader, or with _d for its diffuse map, so drop those TGAs with it.
Does it open Quake 4's and Prey's models?
Yes. They're the same MD5Version 10 files, and open like Doom 3's.
Can I save it as another format?
Yes. Choose Export to save it as GLB, OBJ, STL or USDZ, or the view as PNG.