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 "id": "valve-texture-format",
 "name": "Valve Texture Format",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "vtf"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "image/vnd.valve.source.texture"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/985"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q28207412"
  ],
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    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "00465456",
    "notes": "Valve Texture Format little endian"
   },
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "56544600",
    "notes": "Valve Texture Format big endian"
   },
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "5654460007000000"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Valve Texture Format little endian",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "00465456"
     }
    ]
   },
   {
    "name": "Valve Texture Format big endian",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "56544600"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The Valve Texture Format is used by the Valve Corporation's Source engine to represent textures in models and environments.",
 "tools": [
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   "name": "Abydos",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133445760",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "DevIL",
   "url": "http://openil.sourceforge.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "IrfanView",
   "url": "https://www.irfanview.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "freeware"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Valve_Texture_Format",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
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   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/985",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q28207412",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28207412",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}