GFF struct types list

elegos · December 2017

Hello!

I'm reading and trying to parse the GFF files. I've parsed the header and the StructArray parts, and I've got a question about the latter.

In the documentation, it is written that the Struct.Type represents a "programmer-defined integer ID", but the first which is the "Top-Level Struct". Fine. But is there a known list anywhere? I can't seem to find it.

This is an FAC file that I extracted from an ERF (mod) file of my own:

Header: {FileType: FAC , FileVersion: V3.2, StructCount:  26, FieldCount:   77, LabelCount:    8, FieldDataCount:    53b, FieldIndicesCount:   308b, ListIndicesCount:   108b}
StructArray: [
  {Type: Top-Level struct, DataOrDataOffset:  60, FieldCount:   2} 
  {Type:                0, DataOrDataOffset:   0, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                1, DataOrDataOffset:  12, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                2, DataOrDataOffset:  24, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                3, DataOrDataOffset:  36, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                4, DataOrDataOffset:  48, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                0, DataOrDataOffset:  68, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                1, DataOrDataOffset:  80, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                2, DataOrDataOffset:  92, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                3, DataOrDataOffset: 104, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                4, DataOrDataOffset: 116, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                5, DataOrDataOffset: 128, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                6, DataOrDataOffset: 140, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                7, DataOrDataOffset: 152, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                8, DataOrDataOffset: 164, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:                9, DataOrDataOffset: 176, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               10, DataOrDataOffset: 188, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               11, DataOrDataOffset: 200, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               12, DataOrDataOffset: 212, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               13, DataOrDataOffset: 224, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               14, DataOrDataOffset: 236, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               15, DataOrDataOffset: 248, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               16, DataOrDataOffset: 260, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               17, DataOrDataOffset: 272, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               18, DataOrDataOffset: 284, FieldCount:   3} 
  {Type:               19, DataOrDataOffset: 296, FieldCount:   3}]

So, what are types 0, 1, 2, ... 19?

Thanks

Sherincall · December 2017

Faction GFF is.. weird. It repurposes the struct ID to be the list index. You'll notice how it starts incrementally from zero, twice. These are just two lists - first is the factions, second is the reputation. The second list always has (n^2-n) entries, where n is the number of entries in the first.

More about the faction format: https://wiki.neverwintervault.org/download/attachments/327727/Bioware_Aurora_Faction_Format.pdf?api=v2

Other format specification: https://wiki.neverwintervault.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=327727

elegos · December 2017

Yep those PDF files are the Source of Wizardry, fortunately for us

I'll look more into GFF specific file formats when I'll finish parsing the GFF file format and its extractors (to extract structs and their relative data

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GFF struct types list

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