Rhino 7 does not support WEBP images in year 2025

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While trying to open an image with the ! _Picture command, the following warning appears in the Command line:

The specified file cannot be identifed as a supported type.

There is a misspelling in the word “identified”, but the main issue is that Rhino is unable to read the picture which is a very popular WebP file (citation from Wikipedia: Initial release: 30 September 2010; 14 years ago).

Way many images on the internet are now uploaded in this particular file format due to its superiority over jpg/jpeg. Just wondering if there is an incentive for Rhino to support WebP files any time soon? :slight_smile:

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To be fair, neither does android / whatsapp and even windows by default. Annoying format that hardly seemed to be supported.

Edit: I see it is supported in Windows, my mistake. Was trying to open in irfanview image editor the whole time.

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that is true, it is basically used for web only, but there it annoyingly seems to spread like wildfire, most of the images i pull have to be converted first, i usually end up just screen shooting the thing, but a native support would be preferable.

to be fair some modern apps already support it so it is not fully ignored for sure

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GIMP opens WebP just fine.

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Sure, but first stable release was not until 2018.

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I Just open in paint and save in jpeg

Quite annoying when searching for reference images and rhino can’t open them

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The description sounds like WEBP is the equivalent of the usb c solution for various formats into one

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WEBP support is on the to-do list.

– Dale

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Rhino 7 came out in by the end of 2020, and even the latest 2025 versions of Rhino 8 and 9 WIP lack a support for it… Any chance for Rhino 7 to support WebP in the future?

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There is zero chance, sorry.

– Dale

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" Lossy WebP images are supported in Android 4.0 (API level 14) and higher, and lossless and transparent WebP images are supported in Android 4.3 (API level 18) and newer. You can convert existing BMP, JPG, PNG, or static GIF images to WebP format using Android Studio."

I have an old Android phone (Samsung Galaxy J5 2012) that supports WebP images. Obviously, my Samsung S24 Ultra with Android 15 supports it, too. Windows 10 also reads it just fine. I can open WebP images in FastStone image, Paint, Paint 3D, and Paint.NET.

It’s a quite popular image format nowadays. I noticed that many websites that had JPG images have replaced them with WebP at some point. Plenty of blueprints are posted online as WebP.

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Rhino 9 at least? Next year.

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Hi Bobi -

The YT ticket is public. You can see that it is currently on the 9.x list. That means this definitely won’t be in 9.0, and, realistically, is probably a few years down the road.
-wim