First off - Thank you so much for your help. That's a lot of info you were able to unpack from that, and I really appreciate it. I'll try out the script later and read through your findings, they seem quite detailed. If I find out any other information I'll be sure to post it here, perhaps I'll look...

I really appreciate you helping out with this. Going to look through some of the stuff you posted, though I want to point out that these should contain much more than just TXD files. I believe each level's .DAT contains the model for the level geometry, and may contain models for the objects used on...

Glad that helped, though I've had little luck with the .model files. I found a post on the Stronghold Nation forums from 2 weeks ago today that gives some minor details: Basically the model format consists of several markers that split skeleton rig, (animations), texture/material references and vert...

Figured I'd upload another file just for comparison sake, may help rule out certain bytes.

'Desert3.dat' ~11MB
https://mega.nz/file/eXo2gAKZ#NG8ykrzCZ ... IUHKNkM64U

Hello, Maybe this guide from Stronghold 3 might help? It uses the same 'assets.v'. https://www.strongholdnation.co.uk/article/195-unarchiving-stronghold-3-files That guide links to this tool for extracting them, though you may want to follow along with the guide to use it. https://www.strongholdnati...

Awesome, thanks for the clarification. Here's the .DAT for 'Desert2', the level available in the Demo (Which is identical to the final game's Desert2): https://mega.nz/file/OTp2kTxT#G6xFmk0VQA-1d4my8n5HBlSrTnXSYeIC0fMYzrCJVgY Based on taking a peek with a hex editor, there are files contained within...

Hello everyone, just joined in hoping someone could take another look into the .dat files. These are definitely archives containing textures, texture dictionaries, even scripts and a host of other files. It's been over 16 years since anyone's touched this that I can see, and with the recent release ...