What are ??ab files for?

[Borde]

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.

 

[Izban]

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

 

[ultima espio]

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.

 

[Aali]

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.

 

[Borde]

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

 

[Akari]

: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 )

 

[Aali]

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

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

 

[halkun]

Magic scripts most likely

 

[Akari]

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

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.