texHeaders.bin File Format

intro

TextHeader.bin is created by Binpbo personal edition 2.5 and greater. It is placed in the primary folder of the addon.pbo, and comprises of information from all pax files encountered in that addon from all it's possible data trees.

Conventions

see Generic FileFormat Data Types

File Structure

struct TexHeader.bin
{
 MimeType "0DHT" ;    // NOT asciiz. '0' = 0x30. This is mimetype "TexHeaDer0"
 ulong    version;    // 1
 ulong    nTextures;  // 
 TexBody  TexBodies[nTextures];
};

TexBody

TexBody
{
 ulong          Always1;
 ulong          Always0;
 floats         AverageColor[r,g,b,a];//AVGCTAGG floating-point equivalent. Note that order is different
 bytes          AverageColor[b,g,r,a];//AVGCTAGG in PAA file 
 bytes          MaxColor[b,g,r,a];    //MAXCTAGG in PAA file
 ulong          Always0;
 ulong          AlwaysDefault;      // 0xFFFFFFFF
 ulong          FlagBytes;          // 01 01 00 10 typical
 ulong          SameCount;          // always == nMipmaps
 ulong          TextureType;        // 6 = DXT1, 10 = DXT5
 byte           Always1;
 byte           Always1;

 Asciiz        *PaaFile;            //"data\icons\m4a3_cco_ca.paa"
                                    //"fnfal\data\fnfal_smdi.paa"
 ulong          Flag;
 ulong          nMipmaps;
 MipMap         MipMaps[nMipmaps];
 ushort         SomeShort
 ushort         AnotherShort;
};

• BIS have finally learned to use relative file addressing. This might be the precursor to a better future where we leave oops modelling nightmares behind.

float color

anyfloat= anybyte/255.0;

mipmap

MipMap
{
 ushort width;      //typical 0040,0200
 ushort height;     //typical 0020,0100
 ushort Always0;
 ushort value;      //generally 0x030a
 ulong  dataOffset; //OFFSTAGG in PAA file. position of mipmap data in paa file
};