3D-Particles.BINA File

The following example shows the 05569-3RAPenv_bomb_e06.BINA file.

Hex	Translation	Meaning
33 52 41 50	PAR3	particle 3d
9C 06 00 00	1692	1692 bytes is the length of the following 3d particle part from this position
9C 06	1692	file size again
12 00	18	particle version; always the same
01 20 00 00	0x01200000	bitset; the following bits are known: 01 00 00 00  -  decorative 08 00 00 00  -  use separate Y scale E0 00 00 00  -  sprite/contrail mode mask (3 bits); possible values are: 0 - sprite (face camera orient to screen) 1 - rotated sprite (face camera orient to particle) 2 - beam (parallel face camera) 3 - arrow (parallel orient to particle) 7 - discus (parallel orient to particle) 4 - flat (perpendicular) 5 - contrail (orient to particle) 6 - contrail (face camera)   00 01 00 00  -  geometry 00 02 00 00  -  collide with walls 00 04 00 00  -  collide with chars 00 08 00 00  -  unknown 00 10 00 00  -  has velocity 00 20 00 00  -  has orientation 00 40 00 00  -  offset position 00 80 00 00  -  attached to object 00 00 01 00  -  unknown 00 00 02 00  -  has decal state 00 00 04 00  -  texture animation: random start 00 00 08 00  -  texture animation: animate independently 00 00 10 00  -  has damage owner 00 00 20 00  -  has contrail data 00 00 40 00  -  unknown, lensflare related 00 00 80 00  -  is attracted 00 00 00 01  -  has collision cache
00 00 00 02	0x00000002	bitset 2; the following bits are known: 01 00 00 00  -  use special tint 02 00 00 00  -  unknown 08 00 00 00  -  expire on cutscene 10 00 00 00  -  die on cutscene 60 00 00 00  -  disable level mask (2 bits); possible value are 00 - never disable 40 - disable medium detail 60 - disable low detail   00 00 10 00  -  draw as sky 00 00 20 00  -  unknown 00 00 80 00  -  decal 00 00 00 02  -  invisible 00 00 00 04  -  unknown 00 00 00 08  -  vector 00 00 00 10  -  unknown 00 00 00 20  -  contrail 00 00 00 40  -  lensflare 00 00 00 80  -  unknown
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage; maybe the last one (if you read it from right to left) is a bitset too
01 00	1	amount of packages of part 1 - variables
01 00	1	amount of packages of part 2 - events / actions
01 00	1	amount of packages of part 3 - emitted particles
00 01	256	unknown; always the same
00 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00	0, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 1	particle actions; the following particle actions are possible (values in dec): 0 -  update 1 -  pulse 2 -  start 3 -  stop 4 -  bgfx_start 5 -  bgfx_stop 6 -  hit_wall 7 -  hit_char 8 -  lifetime 9 -  explode 10 -  brokenlink 11 -  create 12 -  die 13 -  newattractor 14 -  delay_start 15 -  delay_stop Oni triggers all positive round numbers of a line which are smaller than the second number. The highest value in the complete array is always equal to the number of packages of part 2 In this example Oni triggers the update field. Thus the action of part 2 is an update action. (Thanks to geyser who figured all out.)
Below follows the first of the 19 blocks of the header.
03 00 00 00	3	identifier for this block; the following identiefiers are used (values in dec): 0 -  string follows (16 byte); this is followed by a long, a short and a garbage short 1 -  short folows 2 -  random short follows 3 -  float follows 4 -  two random floats follow (min + max) 5 -  two random floats follow (mean + standard deviation) 6 -  string follows (16 byte; reference to another file) 7 -  colour follows (4 byte) 8 -  two random colours follow (8 byte) 10 -  long follows 11 -  time follows (4 byte)
00 00 40 3F	0.750000	lifetime in seconds; (be careful: 0 = live forever; the emit-interval is stored in part 3)
80 0B 00 00	garbage	garbage
02 02 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
E8 01 EF 01	garbage	garbage
97 3A 42 89	garbage	garbage
The other blocks.
2nd block		collision radius (it seems that this radius belongs to a sphere)
3rd block		x-scale
4th block		y-scale
5th block		rotation
6th block		alpha
7th block		x-offset
8th block		x-shorten
9th block		tint
10th block		edge min
11th block		edge max
12th block		max contrail lenght
13th block		lensflare through distance
14th block		decal wrap angle
15th block		attractor max distance
16th block		attractor max angle
17th block		attractor angle select min
18th block		attractor angle select max
19th block		attractor angle select weight
Below follow the remaining colors.
00 00 00 00	0.000000	AI dodge radius ?
00 00 00 00	0.000000	AI alert radius ?
not used		flyby sound name
notfoundtex		file name (this example: reference to 01329-notfoundtex.TXMP); the first 00 is the stop byte
00 00	0	fade in frames
00 00	0	fade out frames
64 00	100	unknown; always the same
3C 00	60	unknown
00 00 00 00	0	particle attractor target; the following targets are possible: 0 - none 1 - link 2 - class 3 - tag 4 - characters 5 - hostiles 6 - emitted towards 7 - parent's attractor 8 - all characters
00 00 00 00	0	particle attractor target selection; the following target selections are possible: 0 - distance 1 - angle
00 00 00 00	0	unknown; used only at runtime
not used		name of a particle; 64 byte string
AC 22 81 0B	0B 81 22 AC	runtime pointer of part 1
E0 22 81 0B	0B 81 22 E0	runtime pointer of part 2
88 24 81 0B	0B 81 24 88	runtime pointer of part 3

Hex	Translation	Meaning
Below follows the first block of the package.
rotate		space for the name of the variable (16 bytes)
02 00 00 00	0x02000000	storage type; the following types are known: 01 00 00 00  -  short 02 00 00 00  -  float 04 00 00 00  -  string? (16 bytes) 08 00 00 00  -  colour (4 bytes) 10 00 00 00  -  long? 20 00 00 00  -  string? (16 bytes) 40 00 00 00  -  string? (16 bytes) 00 00 00 00  -  pingpong state 00 10 00 00  -  action index 00 20 00 00  -  emitter 00 30 00 00  -  blast falloff 00 40 00 00  -  coord frame 00 50 00 00  -  collision orient 00 60 00 00  -  boolean 00 70 00 00  -  ambient sound 00 80 00 00  -  impulse sound 00 90 00 00  -  impact modifier 00 A0 00 00  -  damage type
30 00 00 00	48	storaget offset (incremented by the storage type size for every next variable)
Below follows the second block of the package.
04 00 00 00	4	identifier (values as above; use the back button of your browser to come back)
00 00 B4 C3	-360.000000	rotation range (lowest value)
00 00 B4 43	360.000000	rotation range (highest value)
02 02 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
EC 01 EA 01	garbage	garbage
97 3A 42 89	garbage	garbage

Hex	Translation	Meaning
22 00 00 00	34	identifier for this package; these identifiers are possible; for this example 34 = Rotate Y (Thanks to geyser and Loser for their help.)
00 00 00 00	0	identifier for the next eight blocks (values as above; use the back button of your browser to come back)
Below follows the first of the eight "variables" blocks of the package.
not used		name of the variable (16 bytes)
00 00 00 00	0	storage type; used only at runtime
00 00 00 00	0	storrage offset; used only at runtime
Below follows the first of the "events" block of the package.
0A 00 00 00	10	identifier for this block (values as above; use the back button of your browser to come back)
01 00 00 00	1	for this example: 1 = space value
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage

Hex	Translation	Meaning
env_bomb_p09		emitted partcile name (reference to 05582-3RAPenv_bomb_p09.BINA)
C0 92 62 00	62 92 C0	old offset data
47 00 00 00	71	flags; used values: 01 00 00 00  -  unknown 02 00 00 00  -  unknown 04 00 00 00  -  unknown 10 00 00 00  -  emit with parent velocity 20 00 00 00  -  unknown 40 00 00 00  -  unknown 80 00 00 00  -  inherit tint 00 01 00 00  -  unknown 00 02 00 00  -  unknown 00 04 00 00  -  unknown
04 00	4	unknown (from 0 to 100)
FF FF	65535	emit probability (scaled by 65535)
00 00 20 41	10.000000	amount of (sprite) copies
00 00 00 00	0	interval; requieres block 1; the following intervals are possible (values in dec): 0 -  continuous (emit interval) 1 -  random (min interval, max interval) 2 -  instant 3 -  distance (distance) 4 -  attractor (recharge time, check interval) (I'm not sure about this. Maybe only the next row is the interval value and requires block 1 and 2 and this row is something else.)
00 00 00 00	0	the same as above; requires block 2
00 00 00 00	0	type; requieres block 3, 4 and 5; the following types are possible (values in dec): 0 -  point 1 -  line (radius) 2 -  circle (inner radius, outer radius) 3 -  sphere (inner radius, outer radius) 4 -  offset (x, y, z) 5 -  cylinder (heigt, inner radius, outer radius) 6 -  body-surface (offset radius) 7 -  body-bones (offset radius)
03 00 00 00	3	option; requieres block 6, 7 and 8; the following options are possible (values in dec): 0 -  straight 1 -  random 2 -  cone (angle, center bias) 3 -  ring (angle, offset) 4 -  offset (x, y, z) 5 -  inaccurate (base angle, inaccuracy, center bias) 6 -  attractor
00 00 00 00	0	rate; requieres block 9 and 10; the following rates are possible (values in dec): 0 -  uniform (speed) 1 -  stratified (speed 1, speed 2)
0C 00 00 00	12	direction, requires block 11; the following directions are possible (values in dec): 0 -  parent +X 1 -  parent -X 2 -  parent +Y 3 -  parent -Y 4 -  parent +Z 5 -  parent -Z 6 -  world +X 7 -  world -X 8 -  world +Y 9 -  world -Y 10 -  world +Z 11 -  world -Z 12 -  velocity 13 -  reverse-velocity 14 -  towards-emitter 15 -  awayfrom-emitter
04 00 00 00	4	the same as above, requires block 12
Below follows the first of the twelve blocks of the package.
04 00 00 00	4	identifier (values as above; use the back button of your browser to come back)
00 00 00 3E	0.125000	for this eaxmple: min emit interval
00 00 00 3F	0.500000	for this eaxmple: max emit interval
02 02 00 00	garbage	garbage
00 00 00 00	garbage	garbage
F6 01 ED 01	garbage	garbage
97 3A 42 89	garbage	garbage
Below follows the end of the file.
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