Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AVATAR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert AVATAR to another file type
To convert AVATAR Characters to another format, you need Unity or other Game software.
Convert a file to AVATAR
To convert other file formats to the "3D Character Asset" file type, you need software like Unity or a similar tool.
About AVATAR files
The .avatar file format is primarily used to store 3D character models and textures for virtual reality platforms and games. Files with this extension are most commonly managed by game engines and virtual avatar software like Unity, VRChat, and Animaze. These files present significant challenges because they are highly proprietary containers. A VRChat or Unity .avatar file is compiled specifically for those engines. You cannot natively open or edit them in standard 3D modeling software like Blender without specialized extraction tools. Furthermore, the format lacks standardization. For example, Samsung Android devices and IMVU use the .avatar extension simply by renaming standard JPG or PNG files for internal caching. These renamed files become unreadable to standard image viewers. Animaze files, conversely, are often disguised ZIP archives holding 3D meshes. You usually need to convert .avatar files to extract the underlying 3D assets or images. The best target formats are ZIP for Animaze files, and JPG or PNG for system caches. Standard online converters fail to process .avatar files because they are closed, proprietary formats without a uniform structure. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Our analysis detects the supported underlying or embedded format like UnityFS, ZIP, or standard raster images. If we find these, viewing or extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your AVATAR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert AVATAR file to QUEST, VRM, ANIME, FBX, JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF or WEBP, you can use Unity or similar software from the "3D Virtual Character Container" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to AVATAR, try Unity or another comparable tool in the "3D Virtual Character Container" category.
The AVATAR Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our AVATAR converter.