3D Graphics file formats

 

3D Geometry Specifications:

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3DS - The 3D Studio Format

MLI - 3D Studio's Material-Library Format

BYU - Movie BYU file format

DEM - USGS Standards for Digital Elevation Models [Link]

DXF - Used by Autodesk's AutoCAD

DXF Release 13 specification [Link]

DXF Release 12 specification / [Link]

DXF Release 10 specification / [Link]

Creating DXF files

FIG - Used by REND386/AVRIL

FLT - MulitGen Inc.'s OpenFlight format [link]

GLC - File format information

HDF - Hierarchical Data Format [Link]

IGES - Initial Graphics Exchange Specification

IV - Open Inventor File Format Info [Link]

LWLO, LWOB & LWSC - Lightwave 3D file formats

LWLO - Lightwave 3D Layered Object

LWOB - Lightwave 3D Object

LWSC - Lightwave 3D Scene

MAZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE

MGF - Materials and Geometry Format [Link]

MSDL - Manchester Scene Description Language [Link]

NFF & ENFF - (Extended) Neutral File Format

NFF - Scene description language by Eric Haines

NFF - Used by Sense8's WorldToolKit

ENFF - Extensions to Eric Haines' NFF

OBJ - Wavefront Object Files

OFF - A 3D mesh Object File Format

OOGL - Object Oriented Graphics Library

PLG - Used by REND386/AVRIL

POV - Persistence of Vision ray-tracer

QD3D - Apple's QuickDraw 3D Metafile format [Link]

TDDD - Used by the Imagine & Turbo Silver ray-tracers

VIZ - Used by Division's dVS/dVISE

VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VRML97 ISO Specification [Link]

Version 1.0 Specification / [Link]

WLD - Used by REND386/AVRIL

Moving Image Resources:

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MPEG - Moving Picture Expert Group

The MPEG-1 Archive and The MPEG-2 Archive [Link]

Lance Ladic's Info on the MPEG Format [Link]

MPEG Resources on the Web [Link]

MPEGe Lib: A library to help create MPEG movies [Link]

QuickTime - Info on QuickTime Movies

Apple's QuickTime Continuum [Link]

Lance Ladic's Info on the QuickTime Format [Link]

QuickTime players for a number of platforms [Link]

FLI/FLC - Autodesk's Flic Animation format

Flic format description

Further Flic format description

AVI - Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave format

Lance Ladic's Info on the AVI Format [Link]

OpenDML AVI File Format Extensions V1.0 [Link]

Short Overview of AVI features [Link]  

3D Graphic File Formats

Format Group	File Format Name	Filename End
3D Metafile	Apple 3D Metafile File Format (Acrobat File)	*.3DMF
3D Studio	Autodesk 3D Studio File Format Rev 0.93 Autodesk 3D-Studio Material-Library File Format Rev. 0.1	*.3DS, *.MLI
	The Unofficial 3DStudio 3DS File Format 1.0	*.3DS
Animation Master	Hash Animation Master 4 File Format (Acrobat File)
AutoCAD DXF	AutoCAD Release 10 DXF Format	*.DXF
	AutoCAD Release 12 DXF Format	*.DXF
Caligari trueSpace 2	Caligari trueSpace2 file format 2.0 (Acrobat File)	*.COB; *.SCN
CINEMA 4D	CINEMA 4D - File Format Description Version 4.x (Acrobat File)
Imagine	Impulse's Imagine 3.0 Object File Format	*.IFF
	Impulse's Imagine 3.0 Texture File Format	*.IFF
Infini-D	Infini-D 3.0 File Format - Part 1 (Acrobat File) Infini-D 3.0 File Format - Part 2 (Acrobat File)
InnovMetric Polygon Model	InnovMetric Binary File Format for Polygonal Models (Acrobat File)	*.POL
IRIS Inventor	How to Write an IRIS Inventor File Translator Release 1.0 (Acrobat File)	*.SGO
	IRIS Inventor Nodes Quick Reference Release 1.0 (Acrobat File)	*.SGO
NCSA HDF	NCSA HDF Specification and Developer's Guide, V 3.2, September 1993 (Acrobat File)	*.HDF
Lightwave 3D Object	Lightwave 3D Object File Format V 5.0 (Oct 16, 1996) Lightwave 3D Layered Object File Format (revised 10/4/95) Lightwave 3D Object File Format (revised 11/28/94)	*.LWOB; *.LWLO
OpenFlight	MultiGen Inc. OpenFlight Scene Description Database Specification, V 14.2.4 Rev A (Acrobat File)	*.FLT
POV-Ray	Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer 1.0 (Acrobat File)	*.POV
	Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer 2.0 (Acrobat File)
	Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer 3.0 10 (ASCII text)
SPD NFF	Standard Procedural Database Neutral File Format	*.NFF
	Extensions of the Neutral File Format
Stereo CAD-3D	CAD-3D Object File Format	*.3D2
VRML	Virtual Reality Modeling Language Specification 1.0	*.VRML
	Virtual Reality Modeling Language Specification 1.0c
	Virtual Reality Modeling Language Specification 2.0
Wavefront Object	Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer Object Format (Acrobat File)	*.OBJ
WSE Object	WSE's 3D Object File Format (Acrobat File)	*.OFF
WTK NFF	WorldToolKit Neutral File Format	*.NFF; *BFF