TankView 2   (a DS2-tuned version of TankViewer 1)

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TankViewer is a little utility to view and extract contents from the resource files (tank) used by Gas Powered Games' Dungeon Siege.

History

v 1.0 (April 7, 2002)

• Support for multiple tanks open at once.
• Sort files either ascending or descending by Name, File type, size or Last modified date.
• Built in text, hex and image viewers. So you can just doubble click on a file in tankviewer to view it without saving it to the disk first.
• Associate .dsmap .dsres .dssave .dsasave .dsqsave .dsparty so that you can just doubbleclick on them in explorer to open them in TankViewer
• Drag and Drop support: Just drag a tank file from explorer and drop it on TankViewer to open it. And to extract files just drag them from TankViewer to them destination folder in explorer.
• Can open and export .tvc files, a list of several tankfiles so that you easily can open all those tanks just by doubble clicking on the .tvc file.

v 1.02 (May 11, 2002)

• Fixed filelist key shortcut "Index out of bounds" error. I.E when you pressed "E" it would step through all files starting with the name "E", just like Explorer.
• File type now fefaults to " File" instead of "Unknown".
• The options now have a button to set the startup directory to where Dungeon Siege is installed. Note that the button will only be visible id DS is installed.
• Added a placeholder plugin with icons and descriptions for various formats.

v 2.0 (June 11, 2005)

• Version 1.02 modified to work with files from Dungeon Siege 2. No warranty, use it at your own risk!
• Renamed into 'TankView 2' not to conflict with registry entries of the original Tank Viewer (if installed).

Issues

There are a few known issues with this version. Like the performance when extracting alot of files, for example all the 300MB in Objects.dsres. This will be fixed in a later build.


Some shortcuts.

Ctrl+O	Shows the open tank dialog.
Ctrl+F4	Closes active tank
Shift+E	Opens the extract dialog
F1	Tank Info
Backspace	Go up one directory
Enter	Open file or directory
Shift+V	Same as enter (but also works when the listview doesn't have focus)
Ctrl+A	Select all files and folders
Ctrl+Shift+I	Invert selection

License

TankViewer is distributed AS IS. It is freeware but it may NOT be mirrored on another web page. But feel free to link directly to it's page at: http://www.game-editing.net/?view=tankviewer. Please report any bugs and or suggestions to dan@game-editing.net.

Thanks to:

Scott Bilas, Andy Farrell, Chris Pierro, Jacky Wan, Scott Davis and Jeff Clark.


Dan Strandberg
May 11, 06:14 PM