Dark Souls III (Windows)

This page contains notes for the game Dark Souls III (Windows).

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Map IDs#

ID	Name
m30_00_00_00	High Wall of Lothric / Garden
m30_01_00_00	Lothric Castle
m31_00_00_00	Undead Settlement
m32_00_00_00	Archdragon Peak
m33_00_00_00	Road of Sacrifices / Farron Keep
m34_01_00_00	Grand Archives
m35_00_00_00	Cathedral of the Deep

ID	Name
m36_00_00_00	The Grave Of God
m36_90_00_00	The Grave Of God 2
m37_00_00_00	Irithyll / Anor Londo
m38_00_00_00	Catacombs Carthus / Smouldering Lake
m39_00_00_00	Dungeon / Profaned Capital
m40_00_00_00	Cemetary / Firelink / Untended Graves
m41_00_00_00	Kiln of Flame / Flameless Shrine
m45_00_00_00	Painted World of Ariandel

ID	Name
m46_00_00_00	Arena - Grand Roof
m47_00_00_00	Arena - Kiln of Flame
m50_00_00_00	Dreg Heap
m51_00_00_00	Ringed City
m51_01_00_00	Filianore's Rest
m53_00_00_00	Arena - Dragon Ruins
m54_00_00_00	Arena - Round Plaza

Unpacking Games#

Viewing the game files will always require unpacking them (unless you are viewing the assets in Smithbox versions 2.09 or higher).

To unpack games, use either UXM by Nordgaren, or Nuxe by JKAnderson.

To unpack BND files, use WitchyBND by ividyon.

Tools#

For general viewing, use Smithbox, a successor of DSMapStudio made by vawser. It has a Map Editor, Model Viewer, Param Editor, Text Editor, and more. Do note that textures will look darker than they actually are (as of version 2.1.2)

For viewing and extracting audio, use foobar2000 along with the vgmstream plugin.

For viewing Animations, use DSAnimStudio (DSAS) by meowmaritus. To use DSAS:

Click "File", then "Open..."
- Load an anibnd.dcx file, which can be found in the game directory (\DARK SOULS III\Game\chr)
- Enter the 'Game Data Directory' within the "Setup Workspace" pop-up
  - You won't need to enter in the 'ModEngine Directory' since you are only datamining.
  - Do not check any of the three boxes for the sake of accuracy to the game files.
- In the "Choose Character Model for 'c****.anibnd.dcx'" prompt, select the chrbnd.dcx file with the same ID (c**** being any ID).

Use c0000 for player animations, but for finding a character's ID use the table of Character IDs from SoulsModding.com.