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The model Bethesda's games from Morrowind to Fallout 4 draw from. Open one right here in 3D, with its textures from the files or archives dropped with it. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your model opens in 3D, lit and framed, with what's in it beside it and what you pick on the other side.
- Turn, zoom and move it • Double click to center on a point
- Every object in a list • Hide one or see it alone
- Its own colors, clay, wireframe or X-ray
- Export • PNG, GLB, USDZ, STL and OBJ
About NIF
NIF is Gamebryo's model format, and NetImmerse's before it. Bethesda's games keep every model in one, from Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas to Skyrim and Fallout 4, inside their BSA and BA2 archives under meshes, and mods add and replace them. Civilization IV and Dark Age of Camelot used it too.
A NIF starts with a line naming its version, then a header listing each block's type, then the blocks: nodes in a tree, shapes with their vertices and triangles, and properties for their textures and shaders. From Fallout 3 on the header gives each block's size. Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 pack each shape's vertices in a BSTriShape.
Filepeek draws the shapes in their nodes' places with the DDS textures their texture sets name, from the files dropped with it or inside a BSA or BA2 among them, and a shape whose texture isn't there shows gray, named on the note. Morrowind's and Oblivion's files keep no block sizes, so they draw as far as the first block Filepeek doesn't read.
Gamebryo model
.nif
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Numerical Design, then Emergent
Inside the file
- Header
- Gamebryo File Format and its version
- Blocks
- Nodes, shapes, their data and properties
- Textures
- DDS files, by their path under textures
- Games
- Morrowind to Fallout 4
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens a NIF in 3D in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download it.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open NIF
- WindowsNifSkope • Outfit Studio
- MacBlender with the NifTools add-on
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
Where are a NIF's textures?
In the game's BSA or BA2 archives, under textures, by the paths the model's texture sets name. Drop the model with its DDS files, or with the archive that holds them, and it opens with them.
Why is my model gray?
Its textures weren't dropped with it. The note under the model names the first few it looked for, so drop those, or the BSA or BA2 they're in, with the model.
Can I save it as another format?
Yes. Choose Export to save it as GLB, OBJ, STL or USDZ, or the view as PNG.