BIP (Character Studio)

File Format
Name	BIP (Character Studio)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats 3D and CAD/CAM Models BIP (Character Studio)
Extension(s)	.bip

BIP (Biped motion file) is an animation-related modeling format associated with Character Studio.

Character Studio was originally(?) an application by a company named Discreet. It later became a component of Autodesk's 3ds Max. It has also been associated with something named Kinetix.

Identification

More research needed. Files are observed to start with bytes 0x90 0x01.

Software

• XnView - Can decode the preview image contained in some files.

Sample files

• Character Studio (Release 2) → .../*.BIP
• Kinetix Character Studio 1.0 → .../*.BIP
• 3D World Issue 143 CD → DiscContents/resources/mocap/Data/...
  • ...Free/Soccer_TrapShoot.rar → TrapShoot/Soccer_TrapShoot_Azumi.bip
  • ...Premium/Golf_Driver.zip → DriverTest/DriverTest/DriverTest.bip