RLA Converter

Convert landscape projects (RLA) online for free


Drop or upload your .RLA file
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How to convert your RLA file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RLA file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert RLA to another file type

The converter easily converts your RLA projects to various formats - free and online. No Realtime Landscaping or other 3D software needed.

  • RLA to HRZ
  • RLA to PHM
  • RLA to VST
  • RLA to PAT
  • RLA to GIF
  • RLA to UYVY
  • RLA to PC1
  • RLA to J2C
  • RLA to GRO
  • RLA to WRL
  • RLA to P7
  • RLA to GBR

Convert a file to RLA

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other "Landscape Project & Raster Image" formats to RLA without using software like Realtime Landscaping or a similar tool.

  • RWL to RLA
  • HR to RLA
  • FPT to RLA
  • BRK to RLA
  • PH to RLA
  • IDC to RLA
  • ARW to RLA
  • CUT to RLA
  • ST7 to RLA
  • ATK to RLA
  • TIM to RLA
  • GP4 to RLA

About RLA files

The .RLA file is predominantly a proprietary landscape design project created using Idea Spectrum Realtime Landscaping. Alternatively, it functions as a Wavefront raster image, a legacy format used to store 3D rendering outputs with auxiliary data channels in software like Autodesk Maya or Cinema 4D.

The primary disadvantage of both formats is extreme incompatibility. Landscape .RLA files are completely locked into a proprietary ecosystem. Clients without the exact Idea Spectrum software installed cannot open, view, or print the design. Wavefront .RLA images are heavily compressed legacy assets that are ignored by default OS image viewers and remain completely unsupported by web browsers.

To share these files effectively, conversion is mandatory. For Wavefront .RLA images, convert them to PNG or WebP for web use, or EXR to retain multi-channel depth data for professional compositing. For landscape projects, users typically need to extract the data into standard PDF or JPG formats to show clients. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your RLA file.

Users also converted XPJ, AXPP, PNW, FLA and HP files.


FAQ

If you want to convert RLA file to FLA, HP, BASE64, HEX, BIN, ENC, CRYPT, AES, DES, RSA, PGP or GPG, you can use Realtime Landscaping or similar software from the "Landscape Design Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert CER, BIN, PEM, DER, KEY, P7S, PFX, ENC, P12, BASE64, P7B or HEX files to RLA, try Realtime Landscaping or another comparable tool in the "Landscape Design Project" category.



The RLA 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 RLA converter.