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| − | For TFTD | + | ASTORE.DAT contains information pertinent to live aliens in confinement. |
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| + | == Structure == | ||
| + | ASTORE.DAT has a fixed size of 50 entries of 12 bytes each. Information below is arranged by the byte's hex offset, in bold. | ||
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| + | <b>00</b>: Alien race: | ||
| + | 01 = Sectoid | ||
| + | 02 = Snakeman | ||
| + | 03 = Etherial | ||
| + | 04 = Muton | ||
| + | 05 = Floater | ||
| + | 06 = Cellatid | ||
| + | 07 = Silacoid | ||
| + | 08 = Chryssalid | ||
| + | 09 = Reaper | ||
| + | 0A = Sectopod | ||
| + | 0B = Cyberdisk | ||
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| + | When an alien is researched, its race is set to 00. | ||
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| + | <b>01</b>: Rank: | ||
| + | 01 = Commander | ||
| + | 02 = Leader | ||
| + | 03 = Engineer | ||
| + | 04 = Medic | ||
| + | 05 = Navigator | ||
| + | 06 = Soldier | ||
| + | 07 = Terrorist | ||
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| + | <b>02</b>: Base at which the alien is imprisoned, using index values from [[LOC.DAT]], your original base is always 00. | ||
| + | A value of FF indicates that the alien is being transferred. | ||
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| + | <b>03-0B</b>: It is unclear what, if anything, these values do. <b>0B</b> gets set to 01 when an alien is in transit | ||
| + | (this is in addition to setting the Base byte to FF). Otherwise, these bytes tend to remain 00. | ||
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| + | == For TFTD == | ||
ASTORE.DAT | ASTORE.DAT | ||
Revision as of 01:59, 29 December 2006
ASTORE.DAT contains information pertinent to live aliens in confinement.
Structure
ASTORE.DAT has a fixed size of 50 entries of 12 bytes each. Information below is arranged by the byte's hex offset, in bold.
00: Alien race:
01 = Sectoid 02 = Snakeman 03 = Etherial 04 = Muton 05 = Floater 06 = Cellatid 07 = Silacoid 08 = Chryssalid 09 = Reaper 0A = Sectopod 0B = Cyberdisk
When an alien is researched, its race is set to 00.
01: Rank:
01 = Commander 02 = Leader 03 = Engineer 04 = Medic 05 = Navigator 06 = Soldier 07 = Terrorist
02: Base at which the alien is imprisoned, using index values from LOC.DAT, your original base is always 00. A value of FF indicates that the alien is being transferred.
03-0B: It is unclear what, if anything, these values do. 0B gets set to 01 when an alien is in transit (this is in addition to setting the Base byte to FF). Otherwise, these bytes tend to remain 00.
For TFTD
ASTORE.DAT 1st BYTE Alien type
01h Aquatoid 02h Gill Man 03h Lobster Man 04h Tasoth 05h Calcinite 06h Deep One 07h Bio-Drone 08h Tentaculat 09h Triscene 0Ah Hallucinoid 0Bh Xorquid
2nd BYTE Alien class
01h Commander 02h Navigator 03h Medic 04h Technician 05h Squad Leader 06h Soldier 07h Terrorist
These values define the alive aliens that we have in the base. The two values (one for the type and one for the class) must be entered in the first two bytes of the file. After the project has started or the aliens have been transferred to another base, the first byte will be 0. You can re-enter a new value to have other aliens.