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Title: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Borde on 2009-07-06 23:56:15

Hello everyone.

I was looking at the battle models and found those ??ba files. Biturn says they are FF8 models, but they obviously aren't. So I was wondering if anyone around here knows what they contain and what's their format.

Thanks.

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Izban on 2009-07-07 00:23:14

i beleave they have something to do with limits but im not so sure all i know is a model without one the game crashes it maybe an animation look up tableor something like that

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: ultima espio on 2009-07-07 13:54:05

I dont know exactly, but Zack fair is right, it does have something to do with Limit breaks. Swapping a character in battle is stable if you do not change those files, however it crashes when using a limit if you do not swap them.

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Aali on 2009-07-07 14:32:20

Part of it is some kind of mapping between animations/camera movements and actions/attacks.

By modifying awab I made the guard scorpion have serious spasms (plays the "hit" animation all the time).

I don't how this mapping works or what its really mapping *to* but there seems to be a varying amount of data for different actions/attacks (look at apab for an extreme example) which indicates a fairly complex system. Messing with this data has so far only resulted in the game hanging completely when the battle starts.

:EDIT:

It's definitely some kind of script system.

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Borde on 2009-07-07 17:34:57

I see. Well, thanks everyone for the information. Guess It's out of my scope :-P

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Akari on 2009-07-07 19:59:02

Quote from: Aali on 2009-07-07 14:32:20

:EDIT:

It's definitely some kind of script system.

You can look at my notes in QGears SVN and find what already known in this scripts )

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Aali on 2009-07-07 23:41:46

So, in short, not much is known at all about this :-P

And it seems rather irrelevant to my projects, so I'll leave this to someone else to figure out.

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: halkun on 2009-07-08 00:13:09

Magic scripts most likely :P

Title: Re: What are ??ab files for?
Post by: Akari on 2009-07-08 03:59:55

Quote from: Aali on 2009-07-07 23:41:46

So, in short, not much is known at all about this :-P

And it seems rather irrelevant to my projects, so I'll leave this to someone else to figure out.

I now how it called I know how it works for first few enemies. Just not looked futher.