Actor Toolkit

Actor Toolkit
	Screenshot of the Actor Toolkit with Rover, Dot, Scribble, and Clippit.
Name	Actor Toolkit
Developer(s)	Konnor88
Initial release	November 19th, 2025 (39 days ago)
Latest version	2.0.0.122
Latest version release date	December 28th, 2025 (20 hours ago)
Written in	VB.NET
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Website	https://tmafe.com/products
Download	https://tmafe.com/downloads/ActorToolkit.zip

The Actor Toolkit (formerly known as the Microsoft Actor Properties Viewer + Decompiler) is a freeware properties viewer, decompiler, and viewer software developed by Konnor88 that displays Microsoft Actor characters using Frontier Actor.

The program features a multi-document interface like the Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper, with the sidebar having direct links for each window, specifically the Main window, the Properties Viewer window, the Decompiler window, the Agentpedia table generator, the Desktop Actor feature, a link to download more Microsoft Actors, and a transparency color setting.

The latest version, 2.0, was released on December 28th, 2025.

Usage

Each form contains a "Open ACT..." or "Load" button that can be used to select an .ACT file. Once the .ACT file is loaded, a user will be able to utilize all functions of the whichever window the .ACT file was loaded into. For example, if the user loads an Actor file inside of the main window, the user will be able to preview the name and all animations for that character, while if loaded in the Properties Viewer window, the user will be able to see all known properties of the Microsoft Actor.

Gallery

Version 1.0

Screenshot of MAPVD with a Microsoft Actor 2.0 character, Dot.
Screenshot of MAPVD with a Microsoft Actor 1.0 character, Rover.

Version 2.0

Screenshot of the Actor Toolkit with Rover, Dot, Scribble, and Clippit.

Trivia

Formerly, the reason it cannot render the characters directly like the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer can with Microsoft Agent characters is because Microsoft Actor does not have a modern public programming API, while Microsoft Agent does.
- However, this was changed in version 2.0 as the program now uses a beta version of Frontier Actor.
The release of this program represents the first documented and publicly available tool capable of successfully decompiling a Microsoft Actor character. Prior to this program, no complete decompilation method for .ACT files had been published.
Actor Toolkit identifies and extracts Vector-based Windows Metafile (WMF) artwork used by Microsoft Actor, a notable distinction from the bitmap-based 256-color image pipeline used by later Microsoft Agent (.ACS) files.