Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CGF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CGF to another file type
To convert CGF 3D models to another format, you need CryEngine or other 3D software.
Convert a file to CGF
To convert other file formats to the "Crytek Geometry Format" file type, you need software like CryEngine or a similar tool.
About CGF files
A .CGF file is typically a Crytek Geometry Format file. Game developers use it to store 3D models, meshes, and level geometry for CryEngine games, including legacy titles from Ubisoft and NCSoft's Aion. A smaller portion of these files are legacy family tree databases created by older genealogy software like Mindscape Family Tree Creator or Family Tree Maker. Because the 3D variant of .CGF is highly proprietary, it presents severe disadvantages for general users. It is an optimized, compiled format meant for a specific game engine. You cannot natively open it in standard 3D software like Blender or Maya without specialized, often community-built, plugins. Standard online converters fail to process it because it relies on engine-specific material hierarchies and compression. If you are extracting game assets, your best conversion targets are OBJ or FBX. Be prepared to lose custom rigging, skeletal data, and engine-specific shaders during this process. If you possess the genealogy variant, converting to the standard GED (GEDCOM) format is the only reliable way to migrate your family history. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because often only the original software or specialized plugins in Autodesk 3ds Max can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CGF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CGF file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use CryEngine or similar software from the "3D Game Geometry Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to CGF, try CryEngine or another comparable tool in the "3D Game Geometry Storage" category.
The CGF 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 CGF converter.