[Tool] DatXtract

[Arparso]

Tired of command-line utilities? Fear not, because now there's also a visual tool for viewing and extracting Nexus' .dat and .dap archives.

Capabilities:
- reads Nexus' .dat and .dap archives
- allows the user to browse through the archive
- extracts individual folders, files or the whole archive to a folder of your choice
- double-clicking on a file temporarily extracts and opens that file immediately (if you have an application associated with that file type)

Requirements:
- .NET Framework 4 Client Profile (Web Installer)

How to use:
- extract "DatXtract.exe" anywhere you please and start the tool by double-clicking on it
- open a Nexus .dat or .dap archive by clicking on the "Open archive" button
- browse to subfolders by double-clicking on a folder in the folder list
- to extract a file or folder, select one or more files or folders in the list and click the "Extract selected" button (you'll be asked for a target folder)

Limitations:
- doesn't open nexus_01.dat, nexus_02.dat, etc. ... those are encrypted cutscenes and thus in a different format than the regular archives
- doesn't allow modification or creation of archives

Bug reports:
DatXtract was a quick effort and may contain some errors and bugs. If anything doesn't seem to work right, please report back here and I'll try to address those issues.

[DreamorCZ]

It works very well for me so far. Good job as always, Arparso.

[GeoModder]

A question about the opening of a file from within an archive (like Nexus_00.dat).

If you open a file , change something in it and save this file, is it automatically "saved" in the archive then?

[Mularac]

No, it certainly doesn't. Think of it as a compressed file, no different than a rar file. What you can do is not use the .dat file at all, decompress it on the nexus main directory and hide the nexus_00.dat. Now you'll have a bunch of folders, like mesh, textures, universe, etc. Changing files from within those textures will affect the game.

[GeoModder]

No, it certainly doesn't. Think of it as a compressed file, no different than a rar file.

In other words, just like DaTool thus with the difference you can check on files before you decompress the .dat file.
Too bad, would have made it easy to add changes to a .dat file without decompressing it, changing stuff, and compressing it again.