D4C Converter

Extract text from Game map files (D4C)


Drop or upload your .D4C file
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How to extract text from your D4C file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your D4C file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert D4C to another file type

To convert D4C Maps to another format, you need Driver: San Francisco or other Game software.

Convert a file to D4C

To convert other file formats to the "3D Map Archive" file type, you need software like Driver: San Francisco or a similar tool.


About D4C files

A .D4C file is a proprietary 3D game map archive used primarily in Driver: San Francisco by Ubisoft to store the city's environment, road networks, and structural geometry. Because it is a compiled, engine-specific container, users face severe limitations. The files routinely exceed hundreds of megabytes, require a purchased copy of the game to run natively, and cannot be directly accessed by standard 3D design tools or web browsers. Modders and game archivists frequently need to convert .D4C files into standard 3D formats like OBJ, FBX, or DAE to edit the map in software like Blender or Autodesk Maya. Note that custom game shaders, lighting data, and proprietary collision physics are usually lost during this translation. Additionally, community members sometimes extract the internal map coordinates to visualize the game's real-world counterpart data in GIS mapping tools like Google Earth. This file is notoriously difficult to process because the data is packaged in a closed, proprietary compression format. Standard online converters will fail because they lack the necessary game-engine decoding libraries and cannot parse the binary structure. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the exact format, safely inspect the underlying data structure, and convert it if any embedded assets are supported.

Convert.Guru analyzes your D4C file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert D4C file to , you can use Driver: San Francisco or similar software from the "Game Map Data Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to D4C, try Driver: San Francisco or another comparable tool in the "Game Map Data Archive" category.



The D4C Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our D4C converter.