An .XOF file doesn’t map to one fixed standard and typically refers either to a legacy DirectX-style 3D model container or an OthBase XML format for Othello game records; the 3D kind can hold meshes, normals, UVs, materials, and texture references, often starting with headers such as “xof … txt …,” while the OthBase kind is straightforward XML storing move sequences, players, and event data, making a quick Notepad check—XML versus xof header or binary—the easiest way to identify the type.
When people say “XOF is a 3D graphics file,” they mean it stores the fundamental components of a 3D model—not a flat image—because in the older RenderMorphics/Microsoft/DirectX ecosystem, XOF acted as a container for meshes, normals, UVs, materials, frames, and sometimes animation, saved in either readable text with keywords like Mesh/Material or as binary, and modern workflows usually import/convert it to FBX/OBJ/GLTF, with the quickest identification method being to open it and check for an “xof …” header or 3D-style sections rather than XML from unrelated software.
To quickly tell what kind of .XOF file you have, look at its origin and what shows up when opened as text: files tied to 3D packs, mods, or DirectX workflows tend to be the 3D/XOF variety, whereas files from Othello tools or OthBase tend to be XML; readable XML starting with `` confirms the OthBase type, while headers beginning with `xof` or 3D terms like Mesh, Frame, or TextureFilename—or messy binary with “xof” visible—point to the 3D format, and these fast checks typically identify it without extra tools.
For more information in regards to XOF file structure take a look at our own site. When we say “XOF is a 3D graphics file,” we mean it’s a container for the structural parts of a 3D model rather than a flat picture, and in older Windows/DirectX pipelines it followed the legacy X-file style by storing meshes made of vertices and triangles, normals for lighting, UV coordinates for texture mapping, and materials describing color, shine, transparency, and linked texture filenames.
Depending on how it was generated, it might also store hierarchy frames that define part relationships and sometimes animation data, and it can be written as plain text—readable with visible keywords—or as binary, which appears scrambled even though it encodes the same underlying 3D content.
