OBD:BINA/PAR3

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The following example is the raw/separate file part of 3RAPenv_bomb_e06.BINA (level 0). (Another example: http://ssg.oni2.net/oni_b_3e.htm )

Particle dialogs: http://ssg.oni2.net/subfold/bluebox/3d-part.htm

Header

The header takes up 780 = 0x30C bytes.

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
0x00	char[4]	33 52 41 50	PAR3	signature
0x04	int32	9C 06 00 00	1692	length of the following 3d particle part from this position
0x08	int16	9C 06	1692	length again
0x0A	int16	12 00	18	version
0x0C	int32	01 20 00 00	0x2001	flags1; used flags (from left to right): 0x01 00 00 00 - decorative 0x08 00 00 00 - use separate Y scale 0xE0 00 00 00 - sprite/contrail mode mask (3 bits, see below for possible values) 0x00 01 00 00 - geometry 0x00 02 00 00 - collide with walls 0x00 04 00 00 - collide with chars 0x00 08 00 00 - scale to velocity 0x00 10 00 00 - has velocity 0x00 20 00 00 - has orientation 0x00 40 00 00 - has position offset 0x00 80 00 00 - has object attachment matrix 0x00 00 01 00 - has unknown; ignored? 0x00 00 02 00 - has decal state 0x00 00 04 00 - has texture animation random start tick 0x00 00 08 00 - has texture animation independent tick 0x00 00 10 00 - has damage owner 0x00 00 20 00 - has contrail data 0x00 00 40 00 - has lensflare fading state 0x00 00 80 00 - has attractor 0x00 00 00 01 - has collision cache
0x10	int32	00 00 00 02	0x02000000	flags2; used flags (from left to right): 0x01 00 00 00 - use "special" tint (color is based on the health of the character who owns the particle; see ONGS) 0x02 00 00 00 - don't attract through walls 0x08 00 00 00 - expire on cutscene 0x10 00 00 00 - die on cutscene 0x60 00 00 00 - disable level mask (2 bits, 0x00 - never disable, 0x40 - disable medium detail, 0x60 - disable low detail) 0x00 00 10 00 - draw as sky 0x00 00 20 00 - decal full brightness 0x00 00 80 00 - decal 0x00 00 00 01 - initially hidden 0x00 00 00 02 - invisible 0x00 00 00 04 - fade out on edge 0x00 00 00 08 - vector 0x00 00 00 10 - lock position to link 0x00 00 00 20 - is contrail emitter 0x00 00 00 40 - lensflare 0x00 00 00 80 - one sided edge fade
0x14	int32	00 00 00 00	0	unused\runtine only
0x18	int16	01 00	1	number of variables
0x1a	int16	01 00	1	number of events/actions
0x1c	int16	01 00	1	number of emitters
0x1e	int16	00 01	256	unknown; always the same

Field 0x14: From empiric experiments I raise a thesis this field has meaning "used physics for this particle". It corresponds with Neo's OBOA researches ( field 0x18 in OBOA ):

0 - no pre-fabricated physics, if you want physics for this particle, create it via PAR3's actions ( see down on this site for info about actions. )

1 - unknown, looks like it disables all physics context ( even the PAR3 action-induced one )

2 - pre-fabricated physics type 1 - reacts on collisions, ignores gravity.

3 - unknown, looks like it disables all physics context ( even the PAR3 action-induced one ) - maybe because this is "physics" for OBOA objects which will have OBAN animation ?

4 - pre-fabricated physics type 2 - reacts on collisions, gravity is not ignored.

Judging from this discovery it seems possible that maybe there are more ONI file types which can have this "used physics" field. For example DOOR, unknown field 0x18 ( is 0x 02|00|00|00 -> reacts on collisions, ignores gravity ). Maybe there are more files with this field ? --Loser 07:32, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

So just checking: when you set this field, the particles suddenly had collisions\gravity and such? Gumby 02:31, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Same question as Gumby. For all I know particles do not have "physics", only objects and characters have. As for other uses of this "physics type" thing: highly unlikely. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the physics system in Oni is simplistic. There's nothing that it can do more than it already does. Don't waste your time on it. Neo

Sprite modes:

• 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)
• 4 - flat (perpendicular)
• 7 - discus (parallel, orient to particle)

Contrail modes:

• 5 - contrail (orient to particle)
• 6 - contrail (face camera)

HasX flags:

For each HasX flags that is set space will be allocated in the particle to hold the respective value. For example:

• "has velocity" - allocates space for the velocity vector (3 floats = 12 bytes)
• "has orientation" - allocates space for a 3x3 matrix (9 floats = 36 bytes)
• "has object attachment matrix" - allocates space for a pointer to an "object" transform matrix (pointer = 4 bytes)
• "has damage owner" - allocates space for an int32 that indicates who owns the particle (typically the owner is a character or a turret)

The creator of a particle is responsable for properly initializing these values.

In the specific case of particle emitters the newly emitted particle can inherit these values from the emitting particle. A value is inherited if:

• both the emitting particle and emitted particle have the coresponding HasX flag set
• the emitter itself doesn't calculate another value (orientation, velocity etc.)

Event groups

Here we have 16 4-byte slots, which correspond to the following 16 particle event types :

0:update	1:pulse	2:start	3:stop
4:bgfx_start	5:bgfx_stop	6:hit_wall	7:hit_char
8:lifetime	9:explode	A:brokenlink	B:create
C:die	D:newattractor	E:delay_start	F:delay_stop

The ZZZZ actions in the file (ZZZZ is specified at 0x1A above) are bound to a specific event # by means of this list.

If the 4-byte slot for event # reads XX XX YY YY, where XXXX < YYYY < ZZZZ, then event # will execute all the actions whose slot is greater or equal to XXXX, and less than YYYY.

Example

3RAPglass_shard.BINA has 10 actions, distributed between events as follows :

(0,4)(4,4)(4,4)(4,4)(4,4)(4,4)(4,7)(7,9)(9,10)(10,10)(10,10)(10,10)(10,10)(10,10)(10,10)(10,10)

That means :

• actions {0,1,2,3} will be triggered by an update event
• actions {4,5,6} will be triggered by a hit_wall event
• actions {7,8} will be triggered by a hit_char event
• action {9} will be triggered by a lifetime event

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
0x20	int16,int16	00 00 01 00	0, 1	action 0 (actions 0 to 1) triggered by update event
0x24	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by pulse event
0x28	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by start event
0x2C	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by stop event
0x30	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by bgfx_start event
0x34	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by bgfx_stop event
0x38	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by hit_wall event
0x3C	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by hit_char event
0x40	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by lifetime event
0x44	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by explode event
0x48	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by brokenlink event
0x4C	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by create event
0x50	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by die event
0x54	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by newattractor event
0x58	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by delay_start event
0x5C	int16,int16	01 00 01 00	1, 1	no action (actions 1 to 1) triggered by delay_stop event

Particle Properties

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
float property Lifetime (seconds, 0 = live forever)
0x60	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x64	float	00 00 40 3F	0.750000	value
0x68				not used for float values
float property Collision radius
0x7C	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x80	float	00 00 00 00	0.0	value
0x84				not used for float values
Others
0x98	float	00 00 00 00	0.000000	AI dodge radius
0x9C	float	00 00 00 00	0.000000	AI alert radius
0xA0	char[16]	00	""	flyby sound name

Particle Appearance

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
float property Scale
0xB0	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0xB4	float	00 00 80 3F	1.0	value
0xB8				not used for float values
float property Y Scale
0xCC	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0xD0	float	00 00 80 3F	1.0	value
0xD4				not used for float values
float property Rotation
0xE8	int32	00 00 00 00	0	value type: variable
0xEC	char[16]		"rotate"	value
0xFC	int32	00 00 00 00		runtime: storage type
0x100	int32	00 00 00 00		runtime: storage offset
float property Alpha
0x104	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x108	float	00 00 80 3F	1.0	value
0x10C				not used for float values
Others
0x120	char[32]		"notfoundtex"	texture name or geometry name
float property X Offset
0x140	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x144	float	00 00 00 00	0.0	value
0x148				not used for float values
float property X Shorten
0x15C	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x160	float	00 00 00 00	0.0	value
0x164				not used for float values
color property Tint
0x178	int32	07 00 00 00	7	value type: color
0x17C	float	FF FF FF FF	white	value
0x180				not used for color values
float property Edge Fade Min (min value used: 0, max value used: 0.95)
0x194	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x198	float	00 00 00 00	0.0	value
0x19C				not used for float values
float property Edge Fade Max (min value used: 0, max value used: 1)
0x1B0	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x1B4	float	00 00 00 3F	0.5	value
0x1B8				not used for float values
float property Max Contrail (min value used: 0, max value used: 100)
0x1CC	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x1D0	float	00 00 00 00	0.0	value
0x1D4				not used for float values
float property Lens Flare Distance (min value used: 0, max value used: 9000)
0x1E8	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x1EC	float	00 00 00 00	0.0	value
0x1F0				not used for float values
Others
0x204	int16	00 00	0	fade in frames
0x206	int16	00 00	0	fade out frames
0x208		64 00	100	max decals
0x20A		3C 00	60	decal fade frames
float property Decal Wrap Angle (min value used: 20, max value used: 120)
0x20C	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x210	float	00 00 70 42	60.0	value
0x214				not used for float values

Particle Attractor

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
0x228	int32	00 00 00 00	none	particle attractor type 0 - none 1 - link 2 - class 3 - tag 4 - characters 5 - hostiles 6 - emitted towards 7 - parent's attractor 8 - all characters
0x22C	int32	00 00 00 00	distance	particle attractor selection 0 - distance 1 - angle
0x230		00 00 00 00	0	runtime only
0x234	char[64]	00	""	particle name (when attractor type is 3) or particle class name (when attractor type is 2)
float property Attractor Max Distance (min value used: 12, max value used: 2000)
0x274	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x278	float	00 00 16 43	150.0	value
0x27C				not used for float values
float property Attractor Max Angle (min value used: 15, max value used: 180)
0x290	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x294	float	00 00 F0 41	30.0	value
0x298				not used for float values
float property Attractor Angle Select Min (min value used: 3, max value used: 180)
0x2AC	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x2B0	float	00 00 40 40	3.0	value
0x2B4				not used for float values
float property Attractor Angle Select Max (min value used: 20, max value used: 180)
0x2C8	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x2CC	float	00 00 A0 41	20.0	value
0x2D0				not used for float values
float property Attractor Angle Select Weight (min value used: 1, max value used: 100)
0x2E4	int32	03 00 00 00	3	value type: float
0x2E8	float	00 00 40 40	3.0	value
0x2EC				not used for float values
Runtime only
0x300		AC 22 81 0B	0B 81 22 AC	runtime pointer to variables
0x304		E0 22 81 0B	0B 81 22 E0	runtime pointer to events/actions
0x308		88 24 81 0B	0B 81 24 88	runtime pointer to emissions

Value types

0 - variable; variable name follows

1 - none (action parameters use this to indicate an unused parameter)

3 - float; constant; 1 float value follows

4 - float; random; 2 float values follow (min, max)

5 - float; bell curve; 2 float values follow (mean, stddev)

6 - instance; instance name follows

7 - color; constant; 1 color follows

8 - color; random; 2 color follow (min, max)

9 - color; bell curve; 2 color follow (mean, stddev)

10 - int32; constant; int32 follows

11 - time cycle; 2 float values follow (cycle length, scale)

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Variables

Every variable takes up 52=0x34 bytes. The number of variables is specified at 0x18 in the header.

For each variable space is allocated then a particle is created. Variables can be modified by some actions like "linear change", "random change" etc.

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
0x00	char[16]		"rotate"	name of the variable
0x10	int32	02 00 00 00	2	storage type: float
0x14	int32	30 00 00 00	48	runtime: storaget offset (incremented by the storage type size for every next variable)
Initial value
0x18	int32	04 00 00 00	4	value type: random
0x1c	float	00 00 B4 C3	-360.000000	min value
0x20	float	00 00 B4 43	360.000000	max value
0x24				not used for random float
0x2c				not used for random float
0x30				not used for random float

Storage types used for variables

0x0002 (0x02 00 00 00) - float (storage size: 4)

0x0008 (0x08 00 00 00) - color (storage size: 4)

0x1000 (0x00 10 00 00) - pingpong state (storage size: 4)

Other storage types

These storage types are never used for variables. They might work but since there are no actions that can output such values it doesn't make much sense to declare variables using these types.

0x0001 (0x01 00 00 00) - int16 (storage size: 2) (never used)

0x0004 (0x04 00 00 00) - impact name (storage size: 16)

0x1010 (0x10 10 00 00) - action index (storage size: 4)

0x1020 (0x20 10 00 00) - emitter (storage size: 4)

0x1030 (0x30 10 00 00) - blast falloff (storage size: 4)

0x1040 (0x40 10 00 00) - coord frame (storage size: 4)

0x1050 (0x50 10 00 00) - collision orient (storage size: 4)

0x1060 (0x60 10 00 00) - boolean (storage size: 4)

0x1070 (0x70 10 00 00) - ambient sound (storage size: 4) (never used)

0x1080 (0x80 10 00 00) - impulse sound (storage size: 4) (never used)

0x1090 (0x90 10 00 00) - impact modifier (storage size: 4)

0x10A0 (0xA0 10 00 00) - damage type (storage size: 4)

• 0 - normal
• 1 - minor stun
• 2 - major stun
• 3 - minor knockdown
• 4 - major knockdown
• 5 - blownup
• 6 - pickup

0x10B0 (0xB0 10 00 00) - direction (storage size: 4)

0x2000 (0x00 20 00 00) - ambient sound name (storage size: 16)

0x4000 (0x00 40 00 00) - impulse sound name (storage size: 16)

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Actions

Every action takes up 424=0x1A8 bytes. The number of actions is specified at 0x1A in the header.

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
0x00	int32	22 00 00 00	34	Action type: Rotate Y
0x04	int32	00 00 00 00	0	unknown
First output paramter (reference to a variable which the action can modify)
0x00	char[16]	00	""	variable name, if empty this block is not used
0x10	int32	00 00 00 00	0	runtime: storage type
0x14	int32	00 00 00 00	0	runtime: storage offset
First input parameter
0x00	int32	0A 00 00 00	10	value type: int32
0x04	int32	01 00 00 00	1	value (rotation coordinate space)
0x08				not used for int32 values
0x14				not used for int32 values
0x18				not used for int32 values

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Emitters

Every emitter takes up 444=0x1BC bytes. The number of emitters is specified at 0x1C in the header. Each emitter has space for 12 parameters but it appears that the last 2 are never used.

Offset	Type	Raw Hex	Value	Description
0x00	char[64]		"env_bomb_p09"	name of the particle to emit (3RAPenv_bomb_p09.BINA)
0x40	int32	C0 92 62 00		runtime pointer to emitted particle class
0x44	int32	47 00 00 00	0x47	flags; used values: 0x01 00 00 00 - initially on 0x02 00 00 00 - increase particle count 0x04 00 00 00 - turn off at treshold 0x10 00 00 00 - emit with parent velocity 0x20 00 00 00 - ignored? 0x40 00 00 00 - orient to velocity 0x80 00 00 00 - inherit tint 0x00 01 00 00 - one per attractor 0x00 02 00 00 - at least one 0x00 04 00 00 - cycle attractors
0x48	int16	04 00	4	turn off treshold
0x4A	uint16	FF FF	65535	emit probability (scaled by 65535)
0x4C	float	00 00 20 41	10.000000	amount of (sprite) copies
0x50	int32	00 00 00 00	0	link to: 0 - nothing 1 - this particle 2-9 - to the particle last emitted by emitter 0-7 10 - this particle's link
0x54	int32	00 00 00 00	0	emit rate; can use parameters 1 and 2; 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)
0x58	int32	00 00 00 00	0	position; can use parameters 3, 4 and 5; 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 (height, inner radius, outer radius) 6 - body-surface (offset radius) 7 - body-bones (offset radius)
0x5C	int32	03 00 00 00	3	direction; can use parameters 6, 7 and 8; 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
0x60	int32	00 00 00 00	0	speed; can use parameters 9 and 10; possible values (in dec): 0 - uniform (speed) 1 - stratified (speed 1, speed 2)
0x64	int32	0C 00 00 00	12	orientation dir; 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
0x68	int32	04 00 00 00	4	orientation up; same possible values as for orientation dir
First emitter parameter
0x00	int32	04 00 00 00	4	value type: random float
0x04	float	00 00 00 3E	0.125000	attractor - recharge time min value
0x08	float	00 00 00 3F	0.500000	attractor - recharge time max value
0x0C				not used for random float values
0x14				not used for random float values
0x18				not used for random float values

Direction type Inaccurate vs. Cone

The Inaccurate type was designed for standard ballistic weapons which will have a cone of fire expanding out from the point of origin, therefore it works identically to the Cone type except with an additional factor, "inaccuracy". The "angle" supplied is now a base angle, which is added to by the inaccuracy setting. The "center bias" for Cone and Inaccurate emitters can be positive to pull the dispersion of particles towards the center of the vector, or negative to push them towards the edges of the cone.

The inaccuracy setting is only used if the originating character is an AI or turret. The AI's or turret's shooting skill is looked up and multiplied by the difficulty setting's weapon inaccuracy multiplier (see ONGS), then added to the base angle. With the bias taken into account, and some randomization added by the conical dispersion function, this determines the exact trajectory of the bullet coming from the gun.

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