# NifSkope 2.0.dev8
NifSkope is a tool for opening and editing the NetImmerse file format (NIF). NIF is used by video games such as Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Civilization IV, and more.
You can download the latest official release from GitHub. More frequent development builds are posted in the NifTools Discord, pinned to #software.
Anyone can report issues at GitHub or in the NifTools.org Support subforum.
You can fork the latest source from GitHub. See Fork A Repo on how to send your contributions upstream. To grab all submodules, make sure to use --recursive
like so:
git clone --recursive git://github.com/<YOUR_USERNAME>/nifskope.git
For information about development:
Refer to these other documents in your installation folder or at the links provided: