XML:Basic tutorial: Difference between revisions

===OBJC===

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: List of characters in a specific level. There you can setup their position, script name, weapon, ammunition, items, team, combat, melee id, etc..

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: List of consoles in a specific level. There you can setup their position, script name (Id), screen images, and script functions. Basically they are used to open doors.

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: List of combat profiles for global use. There you can set AI's conditions for hand-to-hand, weapon combat, and retreat - in dependence of distances and enemy's counterattack.

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: List of doors in a specific level. There you write conditions when a door opens (or not), and what events are triggered by a character who come passes/comes near the door.

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: List of flags in a specific level. There you can setup their position. They are used by script commands and patrol paths.

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: List of furniture in a specific level. This file type can be useful to import level objects.

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: List of melee profiles for global use. It means how the AI use it's combat moves.

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: List of neutral behaviors in a specific level. Every character has melee, combat and netral behavior Id. It determines whether a non-player character (NPC) talks to you or not, this includes also rewards you could get from such characters.

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: List of particle in a specific level. There you can setup their position, script name and scaling.

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: List of patrol paths in a specific level. A patrol path has an Id which is used by CHAR and script command "ai2_dopath".

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: List of powerups (items, e.g. hyposprays) in a specific level which are spawned at level load. There you can setup their position.

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: List of sound "groups" (spheres) in a specific level. It used to create sound spheres. Come near a machine and you might hear a sound, that's because of SNDG.

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: List of trigger volumes in a specific level. They are invisible areas which trigger script functions, this depends on character's team Id.

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: List of laser triggers in a specific level. There exist several forms and can trigger not only script functions.

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: List of turrets in a specific level. Not that their pods are part of the level geometry. Spawn one additional and it might be located somewhere in the air. Basicly you can setup their head's position, the weapon inside the turrent head, and the team Id which is the target.

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: List of weapons in a specific level which are spawned at level load. Actually only the position of them is set there.

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===BINA===

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: ONIE is a list of all impacts effects which can happen in the game. That includes weapon particle, hand-to-hand combat and movements. The impact effects depends on source type and the material which is hit.

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: 3D particle, also known as 3RAP and PART files. Particle are used as weapon's damage doer, decals and light effects.

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: TMBD is a list of all materials in the game which groups texture map under them. That way environment gets materials which are used by ONIE.

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===Others===

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: Diary page. You what to write a page for a new level or alternative story then there you go.

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: Movement record. Usually used for cutscenes. During that time of animation, AIs have no AI. ^_^

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: Help page.

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: In-game HUD. That's your health bar, compass, etc..

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: Item page. If you have created a new item then there you can describe it, give warnings, whatever.

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:Geometry. Some of these 3D objects are used by OBANs and PAR3 files.

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:Object Animation. Yes, used by objects but also for moving characters and cutsceen cams.

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: Character class. It contains weapon skills, behavior Ids, view radius, jump power, sounds, 3D model (TRBS), animation collection (TRAC), textures (TRMA), and much more.

: The XML file contains also the character's body part material (CBPM), body part impacts (CBPI), and particles for animations (ONCP and ONIA).

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: Character variant. 1) It's used to build up the hierarchy of randomness pools. Some characters with different appearance can form a pool for randomness. A flag in CHAR determinze if a character use one of these pools. 2) It can be also used to upgrade characters on difficult level hard - enabled by a flag in CHAR.

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: Game settings. There you can modify the values of the health bar, hypospray strength, game difficult setting, at what distance item glow is displayed, and autoprompts (text message when picking up a new kind of item).

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: Level descriptor. In other words it is the level name in the save game menu.

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: Sky. It's designed as a box so you will need five images: for top, north, east, south and west. The bottom has no image.

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: Variant list of characters. It's used for randomize characters' appearance.

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: Weapon class. Contains primary and secondary fire mode, more flags, particle, 3D model, and textures.

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: Objective page. That's the place where you can write the objective for a new or modified level.

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:Oni Sound Binary Data. They determine how (SNDD) sound files get played.

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: Part specification. Oni can decorate a page (OPge, TxtC, maybe other too) with images from one source. You write  coordinates there which means these parts.

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: Part specification list.

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: Part Specifications UI (User Interface).

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: Subtitle Array. Those SUBT files can't be extracted as xml but txt. SUBT has a link so you are simply aware of it.

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: Animation collection. Every character can move and fight thanks to a collection.

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: Animation. You can create new animations with Mod Tool. But for setting Oni-specific flags, links to particle and so on you need to edit the xml file afterwards or you create [http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=23230#p23230 precursor xml] before.

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: Totoro Body Set, in other words the 3d model of a character. ONCC (character class) files links to TRBS. The 3d data itself will be exported/imported as dae files.

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: Laser trigger emitter. This file type holds the 3D model and it's coordinates. Used by TRIG.

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: Big texture map. Only used for spalsh screens, you know .. these big Intro, WinLevel and LoseLevel images.

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: Texture map. Well, this type covers all images in Oni. (TXMB use multiple TXMPs to create a big texture.)

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: Console text. Each time you access a console you get a text page. That's TxtC.

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: Window menu cursor list. Mouse pointer(s).

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: Window Menu Dialog Data. It shapes pages like TxtC and WPge. However, new button functions would require engine modding.

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: Window menu menu.

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: Weapon page. That's the place where you can write descriptions page about a specific weapon.

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