What is a .TGA file?
TGA (Truevision Targa) is a raster image format long used in games and 3D rendering.
- Did you know
- The Targa format dates from 1984 and was an early home for 24-bit colour images.
- The Targa format and its TARGA boards came from AT&T, whose cards were among the first to give IBM PCs true-colour graphics.
- It supports an alpha channel and optional run-length encoding, which kept it popular in games and 3D rendering.
- What Analyser reads
- Decode and preview extra still-image formats in pure JavaScript - Truevision TGA, QOI, Netpbm (PPM/PGM/PBM), PCX, farbfeld, WBMP, XBM/XPM, Sun Raster and SGI are fully rendered - and read header metadata from codec-heavy formats: Radiance HDR, DirectDraw Surface (DDS) game textures, OpenEXR, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, EPS/PostScript, Windows WMF/EMF metafiles, Apple ICNS icons, CUR/ANI cursors, MNG and Lottie animations.
- Depth of analysis
- .TGA is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .TGA file
- Drag a .TGA file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.