Heroes 5 Wiki

Prerequisites[]

UE Viewer - a program for viewing assets from games on the Unreal Engine

Creature assets export with UE viewer[1][]

Browse MMH7 assets[]

Open UE viewer and at "Path to game files" browse Might and Magic Heroes 7 game folder "MMH7Game". Then select OK.

UE viewer main menu
UE viewer main menu

Export a creature model[]

On the next window choose the creature that we want to work with and select Export.

Black guard is used as an example
Black guard is used as an example

On the new window:

  • Target path: select save path next to "Export to this folder" and browse a folder on the computer where new creature files will be exported
  • Texture format: Heroes 5 works with models in .dds format. To export textures to .dds, check the box next to "Export compressed textures to dds format".
  • Select OK

Do not use Cyrillic letters for the name of the folder or files.

UE viewer - export menu
UE viewer - export menu

Creature model along with animations is now exported we can now move to editing.

Final result[]

A folder with numerous files that are related to creature model, animation and texture should be present.

Next step: Convert model and animation to .FBX format via 3ds max.

References[]

  1. 1.1 Эспортируем ассеты через UE Viewer. - Original guide by zahar0z translated by Heiligkeit.