Npc
NPCs¶
NPC cameos¶
Authors metadata
- Authors > hill73n
- Last update > 2 June 2022
- Last modification > Bia10 at 2 July 2022
Note: The word cameo in this context stands for a small role/part that npc plays in particular scenario
General path to npc cameos data:
- NETBIO00.DAT > [r0xx.afs] > r0xx.npc
Header¶
For each npc cameo defined:
- 4 bytes offset to npc cameo data
- 4 bytes size of npc cameo data in bytes
Example header of r40.npc (Wild Things)¶
Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
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00000000 28 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 B0 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 (...ˆ...°...ˆ...
00000010 38 01 00 00 88 00 00 00 C0 01 00 00 88 00 00 00 8...ˆ...À...ˆ...
00000020 48 02 00 00 88 00 00 00
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We can see 5 npc cameos begin defined:
- 1st npc cameo starts at 0x000028 and has size of 0x000088 (136) bytes of data.
- 2nd npc cameo starts at 0x0000B0 and has size of 0x000088 (136) bytes of data.
- 3rd npc cameo starts at 0x000138 and has size of 0x000088 (136) bytes of data.
- 4rd npc cameo starts at 0x0001C0 and has size of 0x000088 (136) bytes of data.
- 5rd npc cameo starts at 0x000248 and has size of 0x000088 (136) bytes of data.
Data section¶
Offset 00-03: Always 01 00 00 00 (Probably start of data marker as this is used in .emd files too.)
Offset 04-08: Always 08 00 00 00 - Unknown function
Offset 09-0B: Always 01 00 00 00 - Unknown function
Offset 0C-0F: Room ID
Offset 10-13: Room sub-ID (usually 00, but some rooms have multiple models due to events)
Offset 14-17: NPC model ID (main character cameos use the N20x.NBD versions, not the P0x_0x.nbd)
Offset 18-1B: Spawning position X coordinates
Offset 1C-1F: Spawning position Y (elevation) coordinates
Offset 20-23: Spawning position Z coordinates
Offset 24-27: Spawning position rotation value
Offset 28-33: Always 00 00 00 00 - Unknown function
Offset 34-37: Message ID ?? (These messages are located in r040.bin)