Importing the Models

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The Model Viewer currently doesn't directly detect content off the VPK's so you will have to do it the old-fashioned way of extracting the models first and placing them in the folders to get it working.So the first step would be to extract the models / materials / animations and other raw content from inside the game. Valve stores all of their packaged content (never code) under the(Valve PAK) format. If you’re familiar with modding other games from the company, you will be familiar with GCF files. The VPK’s are more or less the successors to these files and can be extracted in the same way the GCF’s were done – using GCFScape Download and install GCFScape. Now visit your Dota 2 folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota) and find the “pak01_dir.vpk” which is the parent extraction file that will rip out all the content from all archives attached to it. Open this file in GCFScape and extract all the content to a new folder.Now make a backup of your entire Dota 2 Installation and copy / experiment with these files there just to be on the safer side. Try not to mess with your default installation.Once you have them extracted, you will have a new folder created called "" with a bunch of files inside. Now all you need to do is copy the files inside this folder to the "" folder.This will load up the content in the Dota 2 Model Viewer natively. You can also copy just the '' and '' files if you're only looking to view the models.Now your content is place. All that is left is to launch the "" and load the models.