Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NIF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NIF to another file type
To convert NIF 3D models to another format, you need NifSkope or other 3D software.
Convert a file to NIF
To convert other file formats to the "Gamebryo 3D Model File" file type, you need software like NifSkope or a similar tool.
About NIF files
The .NIF file is primarily a 3D model format used by the Gamebryo and NetImmerse game engines to store vertices, textures, animations, and shading data. A rare secondary use is as a CAD/CAM nesting job file for Hypertherm ProNest. To open or edit standard 3D game files, users typically rely on NifSkope or plugins for Blender and Autodesk 3ds Max (see the NetImmerse Wikipedia page for history). Users often need to convert .NIF files to edit 3D models in standard software or prepare game assets for 3D printing. The major disadvantage of this format is that it is highly specialized, proprietary, and engine-specific. Standard web browsers and generic 3D viewers cannot read them. Furthermore, they do not embed textures; they rely on external texture files like DDS, meaning a simple conversion often breaks visual materials. The best target formats are OBJ for static meshes or FBX if you want to attempt keeping rigging data. Exporting to STL is recommended for 3D printing, though all textures will be discarded. Because .NIF is a complex, proprietary format built on hierarchical nodes, it is notoriously difficult to open or convert online. Often only the original modding tools or NifSkope can properly read or export the full data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NIF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NIF file to OBJ, JPG, FBX, STL, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA, MB, C4D or PLY, you can use NifSkope or similar software from the "3D Game Model 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 NIF, try NifSkope or another comparable tool in the "3D Game Model Storage" category.
The NIF 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 NIF converter.