(Outdated) View and export models from Dead By Daylight

Quick and simple guide on how to discover DBD's resources inside UE packs and export them.

Introduction

Dead By Daylight is a game made in Unreal Engine 4. Most of its resources are packed into UE .pak files; packaging ensures that all content is up to date, encrypted and in the proper format to run on the desired target platform.

So UE Viewer is required: a software that allows us to view and extract resources from packages.

You can download it from its developer's site[www.gildor.org].

Starting UE Viewer

After downloading it, run umodel.exe (or umodel_64.exe for the 64bit version).

• Under "Path to game files:", browse and select the path for your Dead By Daylight installation.
  
• Check "Override game detection" and select Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 4.27
  
• You can leave the other checkboxes as default

And then press OK.

From here, you can find DBD packages inside "Game" folder.

Paths

You can export a model and its textures by finding it inside packages, but how can you find a model?

Let's start by saying that you can find all the characters' models (including outfits) inside the "Characters" folder.
Here they are divided into Campers (folder for Survivors models) and Slashers (folder for Killers models).

As you can see from this screenshot, developers use for both killers and survivors codenames or prefixes, except for the very first survivors and killers (such as Dwight, Meg, etc.).

Here's a list for characters' codenames or prefixes

Survivors

Codename	Name
Ace	Ace Visconti
Bill	Bill Overbeck
Claudette	Claudette Morel
David	David King
Dwight	Dwight Fairfield
Feng	Feng Min
Finland	David Tapp
Guam	Kate Denson
Haiti	Adam Francis
Jake	Jake Park
Kenya	Jeff Johansen
Laurie	Laurie Strode
Mali	Jane Romero
Meg	Meg Thomas
Nea	Nea Karlsson
Qatar_F	Nancy Wheeler
Qatar_M	Steve Harrington
Quentin	Quentin Smith
S22	Cheryl Mason
S23	Felix Richter
S24	Élodie Rakoto
S25	Yun-Jin Lee
S26	Jill Valentine
S27	Leon S. Kennedy
S28	Mikaela Reid
S29	Jonah Vasquez
S30	Yoichi Asakawa
S31	Haddie Kaur
S32	Ada Wong
S33	Rebecca Chambers
S34	Vittorio Toscano

View/export models

In every character folder there's a "Models" folder inside, where you can find models for each bodypart (heads, torsos and legs for survivors; heads/masks, bodies and weapons etc. for killers).

In each of these folders there are default and cosmetics bodyparts. You can view files inside the selected folder in the right window.

By selecting a file, you can view it by clicking "Open", or export it by clicking "Export" (it will export model and textures).



In the View Window, you can press O to return into the Selecting Package window.

Conclusion

After getting familiar with paths and codenames, you can use this software to export your models or just simply know where files are located, for example for making custom icons or character portraits. For the latter I will make a separate guide.

[ZomBenTV (Offline) TTV]

I get errors whenever I try to view the files

[Hyperion]

+rep me on my profile saying something nice like good survivor/killer etc... and I will do the same on yours!

If you troll you will just be blocked :)

[FOST]

Integer zero divide (C0000094) at umodel.exe+0x1CDAB
SerializeCompressed <- FPakFile::Serialize: file=/Game/Characters/Campers/Models/CamperMale_REF_Skeleton.uexp <- FArchive::ByteOrderSerialize <- UnPackage::SerializeFName: pos=0000F30A <- FPropertyTag<< <- CTypeInfo::SerializeUnrealProps <- UObject::Serialize <- USkeleton::Serialize <- LoadObject: Skeleton'CamperMale_REF_Skeleton.CamperMale_REF_Skeleton', pos=F30A, ver=522/0 (unversioned), game=ue4.27 <- UObject::EndLoad <- LoadWholePackage: /Game/Characters/Campers/Guam/Models/GS_DSkeleton_REF.uasset <- CUmodelApp::ShowPackageUI <- Main: umodel_build=1589

[Gaspar]

looks like it doen't work anymore. keep getting errors when exporting and viewing models.
probably related with recent updates with the game.