Extract Counter-Strike 2 Files, Models and Maps

This page shows where Counter-Strike 2 keeps its files and how to find the files of an item you know from the game. To open a package and find a file in it, see Finding Game Files.

Where the Files Are

Counter-Strike 2 installs into steamapps/common/Counter-Strike Global Offensive/, with its files in game/csgo/.

What	Where
Models, textures, sounds, the interface, item data	game/csgo/pak01_dir.vpk
Official maps	game/csgo/maps/<map>.vpk, such as game/csgo/maps/de_dust2.vpk
Models and materials of community maps	game/csgo_community_addons/<map>/<map>_dir.vpk
Workshop items	steamapps/workshop/content/730/<item id>/

What's Inside pak01_dir.vpk

Files	Path inside the package
Weapons	weapons/models/<weapon>/, such as weapons/models/ak47/
Knives	weapons/models/knife/<knife>/
Grenades	weapons/models/grenade/<grenade>/
Agents (player models)	agents/models/<faction>/, such as agents/models/ctm_sas/
Agent materials and textures	characters/models/<faction>/materials/
Gloves	agents/models/shared/arms/<glove>/
Props and world models	models/
Weapon finishes (skins)	weapons/paints/<folder>/, such as weapons/paints/legacy/
Glove finishes	gloves/paints/
Finish textures	materials/models/weapons/customization/paints/ and items/assets/paintkits/
Stickers	stickers/<tournament or collection>/, such as stickers/cologne2026/
Charms	weapons/keychains/<collection>/
Coins, pins and trophies	models/inventory_items/
Inventory icons	panorama/images/econ/
Weapon sounds	sounds/weapons/<weapon>/
Player sounds	sounds/player/
Music kits	sounds/music/<kit>/, such as sounds/music/3kliksphilip_01/
Voice lines	sounds/vo/agents/<voice>/
Announcer	sounds/vo/announcer/
Item definitions	scripts/items/items_game.txt
Item names	resource/csgo_english.txt, other languages in resource/csgo_<language>.txt

Agents

Player models are in agents/models/, one folder per faction, such as ctm_sas and tm_phoenix. Each agent is a model in its faction's folder, such as ctm_sas_variantf.vmdl_c for B Squadron Officer. To find an agent by name, see Finding an Item by Its Name.

WARNING

The agent models in characters/models/, such as characters/models/ctm_sas/, are only placeholder cubes. Use the ones in agents/models/.

The export includes all of the agent's animations, which makes it large, see Exporting Animations. It also includes the first-person arms and a defuse kit, see Extra meshes in Blender.

Gloves

Gloves are separate models in agents/models/shared/arms/:

Folder	Gloves
glove_bloodhound	Bloodhound Gloves
glove_brokenfang	Broken Fang Gloves
glove_fingerless	Default T Gloves
glove_handwrap	Hand Wraps
glove_hardknuckle	Default CT Gloves
glove_hydra	Hydra Gloves
glove_motorcycle	Moto Gloves
glove_slick	Driver Gloves
glove_specialist	Specialist Gloves
glove_sporty	Sport Gloves

Apart from the default gloves, they look plain dark gray, because the game paints them with a finish.

Weapons and Knives

Each gun has a folder in weapons/models/, such as ak47 with weapon_rif_ak47.vmdl_c. Most guns have their magazine as a separate model. Some folders are named differently from the game: elite is the Dual Berettas, hkp2000 the P2000, revolver the R8 Revolver, sg556 the SG 553, taser the Zeus x27 and healthshot the Medi-Shot.

Grenades are in weapons/models/grenade/, and knives in weapons/models/knife/. Most knife folders are named after the knife, such as knife_karambit. These are not:

Folder	Knife
knife_canis	Survival Knife
knife_cord	Paracord Knife
knife_css	Classic Knife
knife_m9	M9 Bayonet
knife_outdoor	Nomad Knife
knife_push	Shadow Daggers
knife_tactical	Huntsman Knife
knife_default_ct, knife_default_t	The default CT and T knives

To use a weapon in Blender, see Exporting Models. The export includes its animations, such as reload and inventory_inspect.

Weapon Skins

A skin's finish is a composite material (.vcompmat_c) in weapons/paints/, or gloves/paints/ for gloves. It is named after its paint kit, such as aq_ak47_cartel.vcompmat_c for the AK-47 | Cartel.

Double-click a finish to read it. In older finishes, m_strSpecificContainerMaterial names a material in materials/models/weapons/customization/paints/vmats/, whose References tab lists the textures:

Newer finishes list their textures themselves, mostly in items/assets/paintkits/. See Exporting Textures.

Source 2 Viewer cannot show or export a weapon with a skin applied.

The inventory icons of the finishes are in panorama/images/econ/default_generated/, one per wear level, such as weapon_ak47_aq_ak47_cartel_light_png.vtex_c.

Finding an Item by Its Name

Files use internal names, not the names you see in the game. Two text files in pak01_dir.vpk connect them. This example finds the files of the AK-47 | Cartel:

1. Type resource/csgo_english.txt into the box above the tree, press Enter and double-click the file. Other languages are in files such as csgo_german.txt.

   

2. Press Ctrl+F and search for "Cartel". On its left is its key, PaintKit_aq_p250_cartel_Tag.

   

3. Open scripts/items/items_game.txt and search for the key. Find next goes through every finish named Cartel. The AK-47's entry has name aq_ak47_cartel.

   

4. In the package tab, search for ak47_cartel.

   

The results are the finish, its material and textures, and its inventory icons:

For other items, these lines of their entry name the files:

• Agents, gloves and knives: model_player
• Stickers: sticker_material, a material in stickers/
• Music kits: name, their folder in sounds/music/
• Charms: pedestal_display_model, and for community charms keychain_material

Stickers, Charms and Coins

• Stickers are materials in stickers/, one folder per tournament or collection. Community sticker textures are in items/assets/stickers/community/.
• Charms are models in weapons/keychains/. Community charms share one blank model and differ by their material, with textures in items/assets/keychains/.
• Coins, pins and trophies are models in models/inventory_items/.

Their inventory icons are in panorama/images/econ/.

Music Kits and Voice Lines

Each music kit has a folder in sounds/music/, such as 3kliksphilip_01, with sounds such as mainmenu.vsnd_c and wonround.vsnd_c.

Agent voice lines are in sounds/vo/agents/, one folder per voice, such as balkan and gsg9. The announcer is in sounds/vo/announcer/. To save sounds, see Exporting Sounds.

Maps

Each official map is a package in game/csgo/maps/, such as de_dust2.vpk, with the map in maps/<map>.vmap_c. See Exporting Maps.

Community maps that come with the game, such as de_boulder, keep their models and materials in a second package in game/csgo_community_addons/. Open the map from game/csgo/maps/, and Source 2 Viewer loads the second package with it.