What is the difference between .pk3 and .ply?
- Extension
- .pk3
- .ply
- Category
- Game
- 3D
- Developer
- id Software
- Stanford University
- Description
- A PK3 file is an archive used by the Quake 3 and Quake Live gaming engines. It stores game data such as textures, sounds, models, and maps in a compressed format. PK3 files can be opened and extracted with WinZip, WinRAR, or 7-Zip on Windows, and with The Unarchiver on macOS.
- It is a 3D model file format developed by Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory. PLY is mainly used to describe objects in a collection of polygons.
- MIME Type
- application/x-quake3-pk3
- application/octet-stream
- Wikipedia
- .pk3 on Wikipedia
- .ply on Wikipedia