Category:Fileformat

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Let's have a look at files. As you may already know, files are used to store different data like images, music or videos. There have to be specifications as to how a file should look to be understood by every program (for example: an image that has been created with Photoshop should be able to be viewed on a website). These specifications are called file formats.

Graphics: 2D

There are several file formats that are used to store images. The most simple formats store the color information of every pixel shown in an image. Others might compress the data by storing information of groups of pixels and others store vectors used in images. As you can see, every format has its advantages and disadvantages.

• BMP - Windows Bitmap
• FLI / FLC - Autodesk Animation
• GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
• ILBM - Amiga Graphic Format
• JPG - JPEG/JIFF Image
• MNG - Multi-image Network Graphic Animation
• PCX - ZSoft
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
• TGA - Truevision Targa Graphic
• TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
• SPR - ID-Software Sprites

See the image format comparison table for an overview of file formats.

Graphics: 3D

Model Formats

• 3DS - 3D studio
• AN8 - Anim8or
• COB - trueSpace
• COLLADA - COLLAborative Design Activity
• DXF - AutoCAD object
• G - BRL-CAD geometry file format
• LWO - Lightwave object
• M3G - Mobile 3D Graphics
• MD2 - Quake II Object Format
• MD3 - Quake III Object Format
• MD5 - Quake 4 and Doom 3 Object Format
• MS3D - MilkShape 3D
• OBJ - Wavefront OBJ Format
• SMD - Halflife
• VRML1 - Virtual Reality Markup Language 1
• VMRL2 - Virtual Reality Markup Lanuage 2 (aka VRML 97)
• .X - Direct3D Mesh Object
• .blend - Blender
• http://www.web3d.org/ - X3D Open standard successor of VRML
• SKM - QFusion

Map Formats

• MAP - Quake II Map
• BSP v38- Quake II Map (compiled)
• BSP v30 - Half-Life I Map (compiled)
• BSP v29 - Quake I Map (compiled)

Application-Specific Formats

• PSD - Adobe Photoshop Document
• KS - KonsolScript Document
• PSB - New Version of PSD

Physics

• PALXML
• COLLADA - COLLAborative Design Activity
• Scythe

Sound

• AIFF - Audio Interchange File
• FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
• MID - Midi File used for Mobile Games
• MOD - Amiga and PC Tracker Module
• MP3 - MPEG Audio Stream, Layer III
• OGG - Ogg Vorbis Codec Compressed WAV File
• WAV - Waveform Audio
• XM - Fast Tracker 2 Extended Module
• IT - Impulse Tracker Module

External Links

• File Extension Library - Uniblue Labs
• FILExt - FILExt is a database of file extensions and the various programs that use them
• File-Extensions.org - A very large and searchable database and file extensions info
• FileInfo.net - Searchable database of file extensions with detailed information about each file type
• File Extensions Reference - File extensions listed alphbetically
• Ace - A large list of extensions and with which type of file/program each is associated
• wotsit.org - One of the biggest sites on the regarding file formats, and how use them
• myfileformats.com - Another huge database of file formats with detailed specifications
• wiki.xentax.com - A site giving specifications of 600+ game resource archive formats
• File Extension Seeker - A file extensions websites search engine
• Online TrID file identifier - An online file identifier: load the file and will tell you with which programs you can open it