List of file types

The following file types are in formats created by BioWare specifically for use within their games:

• .4PC — Custom 16-bit RGBA texture format
• .ANB — Animation blend
• .ANI — Animation sequence: holds single animation sequence
• .APL — Artist Placeable File
• .ARE — Area information: holds designer data about an area
• .ARL — Area Layout File
• .BIC — Creature File
• .BIF — BIFF file
• .BTC — BioWare Template for Creatures
• .BTD — BioWare Template for Doors
• .BTE — BioWare Template for Encounters
• .BTG — BioWare Template for Random Item Generator
• .BTM — BioWare Template for Market/Merchants (Stores)
• .BTP — BioWare Template for Placeable Objects
• .BTS — BioWare Template for Sounds
• .BTT — BioWare Template for Triggers
• .CCS — Conditional Compiled Script
• .CIF — Campaign information
• .CNS — Client scripting source
• .CSS — Conditional Source Script
• .CUB — Cutscene blend tree
• .CUT — Cutscene
• .DADBDATA — Compressed file used by the Builder to builder process
• .DAS — Dragon Age Save game file
• .DAT — Internal manifest data file
• .DAZIP — Used to deliver new content to the game. Created by the toolset and consumed by DAUpdater for use by the game
• .DFT — Used to define default values
• .DLB — Dialog blend tree
• .DLG — Dialog
• .DWK — Door walkable mesh
• .ERF — Encapsulated Resource File for packaged resources
• .EVT — Animation event file
• .FAC — Faction file
• .FFX — Frame buffer effect
• .FNT — Font file
• .FSM — Finite State Machine file
• .GAD — GOB Animation Data
• .GDA — Game Data Array, binarized two dimensional array data file
• .GFF — Generic File Format: Used for almost all data, has become much faster for binary data storage, but has lost flexibility of earlier implementations.
• .GIC — Game Instance Comments
• .GIT — Game Instance File
• .GUI — Graphical User Interface File.
• .HAK — HAK file
• .IFO — Module Info File
• .INI — Standard Windows options file
• .ITP — Item Template Palette
• .ITX — Internal texture
• .JRL — Journal file
• .KEY — Key file
• .LDF — Language definition file: Used by the scripting engines
• .LST — Area list
• .LTR — Letter combo probability info for name generation
• .LVL — Level art source file
• .MAL — Material Library file, stores a grouping of material object files
• .MAO — Material Object file, stores which textures are passed to a material
• .MAT — Material file, stores properties of a material
• .MDL — Aurora Model
• .META/MET — Meta information: Extra information about the associated resource
• .MMH — Model Mesh Hierarchy
• .MOR — Head Morph File (compiled)
• .MRH — Head Morph File (working/xml)
• .MSH — Mesh file: Contains all vertex, polygon and normal data
• .MVE —
• .NCC — Compiled Client Script
• .NCS — Compiled Server Script
• .NCS — Neverwinter Compiled Script
• .NDB — Server Script Debug Information
• .NDB — NWScript Debug Format Files.
• .NDC — Client Script Debug Information
• .NSC — Client Side Script
• .NSS — Server Side Script
• .NSS — Neverwinter Source Script
• .PHY — Physics file, contains Novodex collision info
• .PLO — Plot Information File
• .PLT — Packed Layered Texture
• .PTM — Plot Manager file
• .PTT — Plot Template file
• .PWK — Pathfinding Walkable, Pathfinding data file
• .PWK — Placeable object walkable mesh
• .RES — Generic type
• .RIM — Resource In Memory file: used by engine at runtime for fast data retrieval in native memory format
• .RML — Room Layout File
• .SAV — Neverwinter savegame file
• .SSF — sound set file
• .STA — Animation State File
• .STG — Cutscene Stage File
• .SUB — Graphics Submission
• .TEX — Aurora Texture
• .TLK — Dialog Tlk File
• .TNT — Tint file
• .TOC — Table of Contents: Used to generate RIM files
• .TXI — Extra Texture Info
• .UTC — User Template for Creatures
• .UTD — User Template for Doors
• .UTE — User Template for Encounters
• .UTG — User Template for Random Item Generator
• .UTI — User Template for Items
• .UTM — User Template for Market/Merchants (Stores)
• .UTP — User Template for Placeable Objects
• .UTS — User Template for Sounds
• .UTT — User Template for Triggers
• .UTW — waypoint template
• .WFX — Wave extra info
• .WOK — Walk Mesh

Third-party file types

The following file types are in formats created by third parties that may see some usage:

• .AS — Action Script — Used by the ScaleForm GUI package
• .BIK — BINK movie files
• .BMP — Bitmap file
• .CHM — Windows Help File — Used for toolset help, primarily scripting help
• .CUR — Windows Cursor File
• .DDS — Direct Draw Surface file — This is a Direct X graphics file format, it can be compressed, hold mipmaps and Alpha
• .DLL — Windows dynamic link library
• .EXE — Windows Executable
• .FDP — FMOD project file
• .FEV/.FEV.SEQ — FMOD file created by sound design tool
• .FLA — Flash file
• .FSB/.FSB.CACHE/.FSB.SEQ — Fmod Sound Bank file
• .FXA — FaceFX Actor file (eg. "Human.fxa") containing bone definitions. Created using a Max plug-in. Used by the game.
• .FXR — Metadata associated with FXA. Not used by the game.
• .FXS — Metadata associated with FXA. Not used by the game.
• .FXE — Facial animation file (eg. "46634_m.fxe"). Used by the game.
• .FXM — Metadata associated with the FXE for use in Studio (audio, phoneme info). Not used by the game.
• .FXO — Pre-Compiled Shader file, can include support for fallback rendering modes
• .GFX — Exported ScaleForm Movie — Used for animated UI
• .HLSL — High Level Shader Language Source file
• .INI — Windows settings file
• .JPG — Image file — Used mostly for thumbnails for models. Not used in game.
• .JSFL — ScaleForm file
• .MP3 — Sound file
• .MPG — MPG Video File
• .SPT — SpeedTree File
• .SWF — Flash File
• .TGA — Primary game source texture file
• .TTF — TrueType Font
• .TXT — Text file — Primarily used for voice over
• .WAV — Wave File, generic windows sound file
• .XDS — Compressed Direct X images file format
• .XLS — Excel file