TKB Converter

Extract text from Game assets (TKB)


Drop or upload your .TKB file
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How to extract text from your TKB file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TKB file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert TKB to another file type

To convert TKB assets to another format, you need rFactor / Unity or other Game software.

Convert a file to TKB

To convert other file formats to the "Game Engine Asset File" file type, you need software like rFactor / Unity or a similar tool.


About TKB files

The .TKB file extension is primarily used for proprietary game engine assets. Depending on the software environment, it usually acts as a compiled texture file in racing simulators like rFactor, a compiled shader package for the Unity or Tencent Kona game engines, or a bitmap font generated by the Microsoft DirectX Tool Kit (DXTK).

These formats present severe disadvantages for standard users. They are closed, proprietary binaries designed strictly for machine reading during gameplay, not for human editing. Because they are often compressed or encrypted, you cannot simply open a .TKB texture in standard image editors like Adobe Photoshop, nor can you read a .TKB shader file in a standard text editor. This heavy engine dependency locks your assets behind specific, often expensive or deprecated, software development kits (SDKs).

Ideally, users need to convert these files to accessible formats. Textures should be converted to PNG or DDS for editing, while shaders need extraction back into readable text (like HLSL). However, standard online converters fail to process .TKB files because they lack the necessary decryption or unpacking algorithms specific to each game engine.

This is where our platform helps. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. While native editing requires the original game engine, convert.guru can inspect the raw file headers to tell you exactly which type of .TKB file you have. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format - such as an uncompressed bitmap - viewing or extracting the internal content may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your TKB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert TKB file to , you can use rFactor / Unity or similar software from the "Game Engine Asset Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to TKB, try rFactor / Unity or another comparable tool in the "Game Engine Asset Storage" category.



The TKB 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 TKB converter.