BF file format description

Many people share .bf files without attaching instructions on how to use it. Yet it isn’t evident for everyone which program a .bf file can be edited, converted or printed with. On this page, we try to provide assistance for handling .bf files.

2 filename extension(s) found in our database.

.bf - Cryo BF Game Data

BF file is a Cryo BF Game Data. Cryo Interactive Entertainment was a French video game development and publishing company founded in 1992, but existing unofficially since 1989 as a developer group under the name Cryo.

Application:

Category:

Game Data files

Mime-type:

application/octet-stream

Magic:

0x43, 0x72, 0x79, 0x6f, 0x42, 0x46 / CryoBF

Aliases:

Cryo BF Game Data related extensions:

.lif: Game of Life Data
.eix: Metin2 Game Data
.epk: Metin2 Game Data Package
.cbtt: ChessBase Tutorials Database
.fuz: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Voice Data
.hkx: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Animation Data

.bf - libigl Skeletal Data

The BF data files are related to libigl. BF file is a libigl Skeletal Data. libigl is a simple c++ geometry processing library that has a wide functionality including construction of sparse discrete differential geometry operators and finite-elements matrices such as the contangent Laplacian and diagonalized mass matrix, simple facet and edge-based topology data structures, mesh-viewing utilities for opengl and glsl, and many core functions for matrix manipulation. A .tgf file contains a graph of describing a set of control handles/structures: point controls, bones of a skelton and cages made of cage edges.

Application:

libigl

Category:

Data files

Mime-type:

application/octet-stream

Magic:

- / -

Aliases:

libigl Skeletal Data related extensions:

.dmat: libigl Dense Matrices
.rbr: libigl ReAntTweakBar Data
.tgf: libigl Control Handle Graphs

Naturally, other applications may also use the .bf file extension. Even harmful programs can create .bf files. Be especially cautious with .bf files coming from an unknown source!

Can't open a .bf file?

When you double-click a file to open it, Windows examines the filename extension. If Windows recognizes the filename extension, it opens the file in the program that is associated with that filename extension. When Windows does not recognize a filename extension, you receive the following message:

Windows can't open this file:

example.bf

To open this file, Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it. Windows can go online to look it up automatically, or you can manually select one from a list of programs that are installed on your computer.

To avoid this error, you need to set the file association correctly.

Open Control Panel > Control Panel Home > Default Programs > Set Associations.
Select a file type in the list and click Change Program.

The .bf file extension is often given incorrectly!

According to the searches on our site, these misspellings were the most common in the past year:

bb, bc, bd, be, bg, br, bt, bv, fb, ff, gf, hf, nf, vf

Is it possible that the filename extension is misspelled?

Similar file extensions in our database:

.bv: Open Board Viewer Database
.bd: Ben Daglish Music
.fb: Slim! Compressed Archive
.hf: RayShade HeightField Format
.bb: Blitz Basic Code
.fb: Gforth Blocks File

Operating systems

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