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Latest revision as of 21:21, 17 September 2012
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This Page Details the Exemplar and Cohort formats of Simcity 4
Lists of the exemplar/cohort properties can be found here: ExemplarPropertiesList
Exemplars/Cohorts can be either Text or Binary (Text formats are found exclusively in maxis plugins) and this can be determined by reading the 4th byte in any exemplar or cohort. In text EXMP files this is T and in Binary EXMP files it is B.
Format Spec Follows
[edit] Exemplar and Cohort File Format for Simcity4 by EA. Specification by Buggi, Karybdis, Ilive, Tropod
8 BYTES - The file identifier. Can be EQZB1###, EQZT1### for exemplars
and CQZB1### or CQZT1### for cohorts. B denotes Binary format.
T is text. 1 is version.
DWORD - Parent cohort type id
DWORD - Parent cohort group id
DWORD - Parent cohort instance id
DWORD - Property count. This specifies how many properties are
contained in the exemplar or cohort. Critical to reading the
file properly.
+24 Repetitions of properties follow. Each property varies in size.
Property structure
-----------------
All properties have the same basic structure. They start at offset
24 in an exemplar or cohort.
DWORD - The properties numerical value. Represented as
0x???????? in Ilives reader and DatGen4.
WORD - The properties ValueType. This defines weather its a
uint or a float etc. See table below for possible
values.
WORD - The KeyType. The KeyType contains a value of 0x80 if the
property has more than or equal to one repetition, and
0x00 if it has 0 repetitions. 80 is the only recorded
KeyType
BYTE - Number of values, or value repetitions, if the KeyType
is zero. When KeyType is 0x80, this is an unused flag.
DWORD - Number of values, or value repetitions, if the KeyType
value is 0x80. A repetition of 1 represents properties capable of
more than one repetition but held to 1 rep for the moment.
When KeyType is 0x00, this is a single value as defined by ValueType
ARBIT - Value repetitions when KeyType is 0x80. Depending on
data type, the length of these repetitions varies. See
ValueType below on data types.
ValueTypes
----------
Type Numeric value Property values length
---- ------------- ----------------------
SInt32 0x700 4
Float32 0x900 4
UInt32 0x300 4
Bool 0xB00 1
UInt8 0x100 1
SInt64 0x800 8
UInt16 0x200 2
String 0xC00 Number of Reps Value is String Length
