Serialization and Atlan Mod Packager

Overview of serialization and Atlan Mod Packager

This page is still a work-in-progress

Eternal vs Dark Ages

Serialized Files vs Regular Decls

This section highlights differences between regular Dark Ages decls and Atlan-Serialized files. You must keep all of these in consideration when editing these files.

Colors

Serialized files use Linear RGB for color values. Example:

127.5 / 255 = 0.5
my_idColor = {
	r = 0.5; 
	g = 0.5;
	b = 0.5;
	a = 0.5;
}

File Paths

With normal decls, a reference to an entityDef file might look like this: entity = "projectile_ent/my_projectile_entity"

Inside serialized files, this same filepath will look like: entity = "entityDef/projectile_ent/my_projectile_entity"

The path before the first / is the file type. To correctly reserialize the file, you MUST ensure the file type is there, and capitalized accurately. See the end of this page for a list of correctly-capitalized file types.

Type Info Object Pointers

File Type Strings

List of all known, correctly capitalized file types. Others exist, but aren't encountered in the vanilla files and therefore aren't included here. If a type you need isn't listed here, you can likely guess the correct capitalization. They typically follow standard camel-casing rules. Obtaining a complete list of every possible type would require dumping data from the game executable.

ability_Dash
ability_ParrySwarm
ability_ShieldThrow
actorModifier
actorPopulation
advancedScreenViewShake
aiBehavior
aiBehaviorEvents
aiComponentList
aiDamageDeclCollection
aiDazeSettings
aiEnforcerAbilities
aiEvent
aiGlobalSettings
aiPoolNumbers
aiPositioningParms
aiUpgrades
aimAssist
ammo
anim
animCameraLensEffects
animWeb
attackgraph
audioLogStory
automap
automapProperties
collectibles
collisionShape
colorLUT
combatEncounterScoring
damage
damagemarkertype
destructible
devInvLoadout
dialog
ecozoneconfig
entityDamage
entityDef
env
equipmentLauncher
executions
explosion
extraLife
flare
footstepEvents
formationAttackParams
formationPositioningParams
fx
fxConditionLogicEvents
gameItem
geomcacheoptions
globalDataComponent
gorecontainer
gorewounds
gridSpaceData
handsBobCycle
highlights
hud
image
impactEffect
importance
interaction
inventoryItem
inventoryconversion
layer
lightrig
loadScreenBuckets
logicClass
logicEntity
logicFX
logicLibrary
logicObjectDescriptor
logicProfile
logicUIWidget
lootDrop
lootDropComponent
mapInfo
mapbrushes
material2
materialInteraction
model
modelSkinned
modelstream
notification
notification2
opacitymicromapdata
particle
perkGroups
perks
physicsObject
playableCharacter
playerMovement
playerProps
poi
projectile
propAttribs
propChargeBoost
propCoopRotateBob
propExtraLife
propHealth
propItem
propMoveable
propStatusEffect
propUse
questCategory
questDefs
renderParm
renderProgResource
rs_emb_sfile
rs_emb_sfilem
rumble
scoringRubric
sectorState
sectorremeshmodel
skeleton
soundPack
soundevent
soundrtpc
soundstate
soundswitch
statusEffect
strandsHaircg
string
swf
syncInteractions
table
targeting
throwable
transportControllerInfo
transportLayoutInfo
tutorialEvent
twitchPain
uiWidget
uiwalkthroughmenuargentcell
uiwalkthroughmenudossier
uiwalkthroughmenumodbot
vegetation
viewInfo_viewTuning
violenceEvent
visorSplatterEffect
waterThresholds
watergridconfig
weapon
weaponClass
windsource