Virtools File Format

Summary

Name

Virtools File Format

Identifiers

PUID: fmt/1208

Description

This is a group of formats created by the Virtools software application. Originally released in 1993, Virtools offered a development environment to create interactive 3D applications. Virtools includes four format types, Composition files, Object files, Player files and Scripts files. Virtools Composition files have an extension of .cmo, these contain an arrangement of one or more elements or associated behaviours which are assembled within Virtools. Virtools Object files have an extension of .nmo and contain one or more elements or scripts. Virtools Player files have an extension of .vmo and contain a composition that has been exported from Virtools and are read only files. Virtools Script files have an extension of .nms and contain a script or a behaviour graph. Currently PRONOM is unable to distinguish between these four different formats, if you are able to provide any information around this format please contact pronom@nationalarchives.gov.uk.

File extensions

cmo, nmo, vmo, nms

Source

The Canadian Centre for Architecture / The Canadian Centre for Architecture

Internal signatures

Changelog

• Updated in V115

  Release date

  15 November 2023

  Virtools File Format: Modified the offset values from null to 0 as part of a project to match PRONOM data with the xsd standard. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK) (UK).

• Added in V94

  Release date

  17 September 2018

  Virtools File Format: Submitted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

  Virtools File Format: Full entry added. Submitted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.