Hi guys, some of you may know of the NIF file format which stores information about models for games for certain engines. For example, Elder Scrolls. I've found a library which is specialized in loading NIF files etc, which you can find here: http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifTools My question is though, does anyone have any idea how to implement basic rendering for that format? For a casual project i want to create a basic rendering utility for viewing NIF models. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks :)

I never worked with NIF files before, but following links from what you gave I came upon the niflib doc:
http://niftools.sourceforge.net/doc/niflib/
In there you might want to take a look at the "related pages" section for starting out. The library seem to allow a complete scene in the file... or at least multiple object/light/particle system/etc. You will probably load a file then have something like a NiAVObject from there you can access the NiGeometry and use GetData() to obtain a NiGeometryData object with the vertex/normal/uv/color and everything you need to render. Note that I never tried it and might be pointing you in a wrong direction.. but it' the first place I would look.