3D Graphics Files

Format

Description

Author

3D2

Stereo CAD-3D 2.0 Communication Pipeline Specification (.3D, .3D2, .3D4) (RTF)

Tom Hudson

3DM

Rhinoceros 3DM information and code

Robert McNeel & Assoc.

3DMF

3D metafile Format (Acrobat)

Apple

3DS

The Unofficial 3DStudio 3DS File Format v1.0 (RTF)

Jeff Lewis

3D Studio File Format v0.93 (RTF)

Martin van Velsen/Robin Fercoq/Jim Pitts

3D Studio File Format Information and Splines & Quaternions

Jochen Wilhelmy

3DS file format reader in c++ with documentation

Andrea Ingegneri

3DX

3DX File Format

Luis Muniz

AN8

Format of Anim8or .an8 Files - V0.85

BIFF

XITE 3D format

CINEMA 4D

Cinema 4D v4.x file format - Amiga version only (Acrobat)

Maxon Computer

COB

Caligari Truespace COB and SCN formats v2.0 (RTF)

Caligari trueSpace file format v4.2

Caligari Corporation

Caligari trueSpace file format v4.0

Caligari Corporation

Caligari trueSpace file format v3.2

Caligari Corporation

FLT

OpenFlight Scene description Database Files v14.2.4 (Acrobat)

MultiGen Inc.

GLB

Glob File Format .GLB version 1.0

Mykel Tanksley

GMS

Gesture and Motion Signal Files specifications, comments & source code

Annie Luciani, Matthieu Evrard, Damien Courouss鬠Nicolas Castagn鬠Claude Cadoz, Jean-Loup Florens

IMAGINE

Designing Texture Modules for Imagine

Imagine 3.0 Object & Texture File Formats

Impulse Inc.

Imagine Staging File Format

Gabriele Scibilia

INFINI-D

Infini-D 3.0 Format

Specular R&D

LIGHTWAVE

Lightwave 3D object file format

Lightwave 3D layered object file format

Stuart Ferguson

Lightwave 3D object file format

Lightwave 8 File Formats

MGF

Materials and Geometry 3D rendering format

Greg Ward

MS3D

MilkShape 3D file format, version 4

Sylvie Besnard

MTL

Material Library File (.mtl)

Alias|Wavefront, Inc

NFF

Neutral File Format

Eric Haines

WorldToolKit Neutral File Format v2.1 incl. BFF (RTF)

Extensions of the Neutral File Format (RTF)

OBJ

Videoscape file specs

Max Gilead

Wavefront Object files (Acrobat)

Source code to read wavefront (alias/maya) .OBJ files

Steve Britton

OFF

3D Object File Format

Randi J. Rost

OOGL

Web Object Oriented Graphics Library

OPENGL

OpenGL Web site

PDS

Planetary Data System Format

NASA

PLY

Stanford Triangle Format v1.0 plus MATLAB example functions

Pascal Getreuer