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The model of Warcraft III and its custom maps' units, doodads and spells. Open one right here in 3D with its textures and play its animations. 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 MDX
Blizzard shipped Warcraft III in 2002 with its models in MDX, a binary file its tools wrote from MDL, the same model as text. Map makers have traded custom units, heroes and effects as MDX ever since, and Reforged, in 2020, keeps its new HD models in MDX too.
An MDX is chunks of four letters: geosets of vertices and triangles, materials of layers over its textures, bones and helpers whose keys move each vertex, and sequences like Stand, Walk and Attack, each a stretch of the model's one timeline. Its textures are BLP files named by their paths in the game's archives, and a texture can be the player's team color or glow.
Filepeek reads its geosets, bones and every sequence, each sequence a take on the player, with team color in player 1's red under its textures and the BLPs dropped with it. A text MDL opens the same way. Particles, ribbons and Reforged's HD shading aren't drawn.
Warcraft III model
.mdx
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Released
- 2002
Inside the file
- Geosets
- Vertices, triangles and their bones
- Sequences
- Stand, Walk, Attack and the rest
- Textures
- BLP files, by their game paths
- Text twin
- MDL, the same model as text
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens an MDX in 3D in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download it.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open MDX
- WindowsRetera's Model Studio • Warcraft III's World Editor
- MacRetera's Model Studio
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I see an MDX with its textures?
Drop the model with its BLP files, or the folder they're in. A model names its textures by their paths in the game's archives, like Textures\Lantern.blp, and the note names any that weren't dropped.
What's the red on my model?
Team color. Warcraft III paints parts of a unit in its player's color, through a texture the game fills in, and Filepeek shows player 1's red there.
Does it open MDL files too?
Yes. MDL is the same model written as text, which modders edit and convert with tools like Retera's Model Studio, and it opens like an MDX.
Does it open Reforged's HD models?
Yes, their geosets, bones and sequences, with the textures dropped with them in DDS or BLP. Reforged's HD shading, with its normal and ORM maps, isn't drawn.
Can I save it as another format?
Yes. Choose Export to save it as GLB, OBJ, STL or USDZ, or the view as PNG.