Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BVH file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert BVH to another file type
The converter easily converts your BVH file to various formats - free and online. No Blender or extra software needed.
BVH to FBX
BVH to OBJ
BVH to 3DS
Convert a file to BVH
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other 3D formats to BVH with high quality output.
About BVH files
The .BVH (Biovision Hierarchy) file is a legacy industry standard for storing motion capture data, originally developed by Biovision. It functions as a plain text file that defines a skeletal structure (the "Hierarchy") followed by the frame-by-frame rotational data (the "Motion") to animate that skeleton. While widely supported by tools like Blender and Autodesk Maya, .BVH files present significant limitations for modern workflows. Because they contain only skeletal data, they lack the actual 3D character mesh (skin), meaning you often only see floating bones or stick figures when opening them. Furthermore, as an uncompressed ASCII format, file sizes can become unwieldy for long animations, and the lack of standardization in bone naming conventions often leads to "broken" rigs when imported into game engines. To utilize this motion data in engines like Unity or Unreal Engine, users typically convert .BVH to FBX or GLB, which can bundle the animation with a character mesh and compress the data for runtime efficiency. For web-based 3D, converting to GLTF is recommended, while DAE is useful for cross-platform exchange.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your BVH file.
If you want to convert BVH file to BIP, ANIM, VMD, MP4, DAE, MAX, BLEND, MA or MB, you can use Blender or similar software from the "Motion Capture Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to BVH, try Blender or another comparable tool in the "Motion Capture Data Storage" category.
The BVH 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 BVH converter.