View PAA files in your browser
The texture of Arma, DayZ and Operation Flashpoint, packed in their PBO files. Open one right here and save it as PNG. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your texture opens decoded at full size, its frames, faces or textures as pages.
- Its own format decoded • DXT, palettes and more
- Frames, faces and textures • A page each
- Drag to pan • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Export • Save as PNG or JPEG
About PAA
Bohemia Interactive's Real Virtuality engine keeps its textures as PAA files, from Operation Flashpoint to Arma 3 and DayZ, inside the games' PBO archives. Mod makers turn their pictures into PAA with ImageToPAA or TexView 2, and mission makers use them for flags, signs and loading screens. PAC is the older name for those with a palette.
A PAA starts with its format, DXT1 to DXT5 or plain pixels, then tagged data such as its average color and where its mipmaps are, a palette, and the mipmaps from the biggest down, each packed with LZO or LZSS.
Filepeek reads the biggest mipmap, unpacks and decodes it in your browser, and Export saves it as PNG or JPEG. Inside a PBO, each PAA opens from the archive's list.
Arma texture
.paa • .pac
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Bohemia Interactive
Inside the file
- Formats
- DXT1 to DXT5, or pixels
- Tags
- GGAT, like its average color
- Packing
- LZO or LZSS
- Archives
- Inside PBO files
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens a PAA in the image viewer 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 PAA
- WindowsTexView 2 from Arma 3 Tools
- MacNo app opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I convert a PAA to PNG?
Open it, then choose Export, then Save as PNG or JPEG.
Can I see the textures in a PBO?
Yes. Open the PBO here, and each PAA opens from its list.