## NIFF 2.0 Online Manual: Introduction

#### About This Release - 1999/1/20

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

### 1. Contents

The contents of this release are as follows:

- NIFF 1.0 Specification
- NIFF 2.0 Specification
- NIFFeditor for SGI (2.01)
- NIFFeditor for WIN(2.0)
- NIFFAPI (1.0)
- NIFF Tools (1.0)
- niff2nvf Converter (1.02)
- nvfview Previewer (1.0)
- niff2gfx Converter (1.3.7)
- nd (N64 Display Manager) (1.0)
- n64prev Previewer (1.3.6)
- MultiTextureViewer(Windows version only) (1.0)

### 2. Directory Structure

The directory structure of this release is as follows:

>     NIFFDIR = $N64KITDIR/niff

>     $NIFFDIR/bin/            :  NIFFeditor-related files
>              niffapi/        :  NIFFAPI-related files
>              nifftools/      :  NIFF general tools
>              nvfview/        :  niff2nvf converter +  nvfview previewer
>              mtv/            :  MultiTextureViewer related
>              n64prev/        :  niff2gfx converter + n64prev previewer
>              doc/            :  Documents
>              sample/         :  Samples
>              user_data/      :  User data

>     * By default, N64KITDIR is installed in the following directories:
>     (SGI)
>     N64KITDIR = /usr/local/n64kit
>     (Windows)
>     N64KITDIR = c:\nintendo\n64kit

Since NIFFeditor and the converters are dependent on the relative directory structure under NIFF, please do not change the directory structure. However, another directory can be specified for the data-use directory. In addition, as long as the directory structure under NIFF remains the same, it is possible to copy everything under `$N64KITDIR` to another directory and use it all from there.

NIFFeditor and the converters write files into the `nvfview` and `n64prev` directories, so if these are in the write-protect state, please change them to the write-enabled state. Also, please note that whenever preview is executed from the editor, the same file name is always used. Thus, if more than one person will be using NIFFeditor on the same machine, please copy everything under NIFF to another location so there will be separate versions of the `nvfview` and `n64prev` directories.

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