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What is a .SIGNATURES file?
.SIGNATURES is a Source 2 (Valve) file (Games). Analyser identifies a .SIGNATURES file and reads the metadata in its header, right in your browser.
- Did you know
- A .signatures file in a Source 2 game is associated with verifying the integrity of game content.
- Source 2 is Valve's in-house game engine, the successor to Source, and powers Dota 2, Half-Life: Alyx and Counter-Strike 2.
- Valve has released Source 2 tools to creators, so the same file formats used to build its own games appear in community mods and workshops.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read Valve Source 2 text assets from Deadlock (Citadel), Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Half-Life: Alyx: the gameinfo.gi manifest (game, title, search-path mounts), KeyValues3 files (.kv3 / .vcfg - surfacing the KV3 encoding and format header), the editor templates (.vsnd_template sound events, .vnm_template node graphs, .mks_template sheets), tools UI (.vqlayout, .vsc colours, .qss Qt stylesheets), function-signature databases (.signatures) and text resource/UI layouts (.res, content-gated against binary Windows .res) - each with parsed metadata plus a source preview.
- Depth of analysis
- .SIGNATURES is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .SIGNATURES file
- Drag a .SIGNATURES file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- .GI · .KV3 · .VCFG · .VQLAYOUT · .VSC · .QSS · .VSND_TEMPLATE · .VNM_TEMPLATE · .MKS_TEMPLATE · .RES. See all supported file types.