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Game files

Under the hood

REZ archives, models, textures, maps and sounds, and how the OpenCF app reads them.

CrossFire runs on a heavily modified LithTech engine. Almost everything the client loads is packed into .REZ archives in the game folder; newer ones are encrypted.

.LTB: Models: characters, weapons and map props, with their bones and animation clip names.
.DTX: Textures (skins, map surfaces, interface art).
.DAT: Compiled map worlds: geometry, lighting and the objects placed in the level.
.WAV / FMOD: Sounds: loose clips plus FMOD banks for music and effects.
Data tables: Encrypted script tables that hold weapon damage, hit box multipliers and movement. OpenCF's weapon pages are read from these.

The OpenCF desktop app

The Windows app opens these archives read-only: it shows models in 3D, maps, textures and data tables, and plays sounds. It never changes game files and never touches a running game.

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