Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your COL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert COL to another file type
To convert COL Collision files to another format, you need Grand Theft Auto or other Game software.
Convert a file to COL
To convert other file formats to the "Game Collision File" file type, you need software like Grand Theft Auto or a similar tool.
About COL files
A .COL file is primarily a Game Collision File used by 3D game engines, most notably the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series by Rockstar Games and the MT Framework engine by Capcom (used in Monster Hunter). It stores physical hitboxes, boundary boxes, and collision meshes that dictate how in-game objects interact. It can also function as a Color Legend for Radio Mobile, a Graph Coloring Problem instance in the DIMACS format, a Capture One Session File, or a Bricklink Studio Collision Data file. The main disadvantage of game-related .COL files is that they are highly proprietary, engine-specific binary formats. Standard 3D software like Blender or Maya cannot open them without community-built plugins. Because they are closed-source formats, standard online converters completely fail to process them. Users typically want to convert .COL files to .OBJ or .DFF to edit the 3D collision meshes, or extract text data to .CSV. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because only the original game engine or dedicated community modding tools can properly parse the binary geometry trees. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your COL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert COL file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Grand Theft Auto or similar software from the "Game Collision Mesh Data" 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 COL, try Grand Theft Auto or another comparable tool in the "Game Collision Mesh Data" category.
The COL 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 COL converter.