List of Sims 2 Formats by Name

This is a list of all resources, sorted by their short name.

List

Name	Hex Code	Description
2ARY	6B943B43	2D Array
3ARY	2A51171B	3D Array
5DS	AC06A676	Lighting (Draw State Light)
5EL	6A97042F	Lighting (Environment Cube Light)
5LF	AC06A66F	Lighting (Linear Fog Light)
5SC	25232B11	Scene Node
ANIM	FB00791E	Animation Resource
BCON	42434F4E	Behaviour Constant
BHAV	42484156	Behaviour Function
BMP	424D505F	Bitmaps
BMP	856DDBAC	Bitmaps
CATS	43415453	Catalog String
CIGE	43494745	Image Link
CINE	4D51F042	Cinematic Scenes
CREG	CDB467B8	Content Registry
CRES	E519C933	Resource Node
CTSS	43545353	Catalog Description
DGRP	44475250	Drawgroup
DIR	E86B1EEF	Directory of Compressed Files
FACE	46414345	Face Properties
FAMh	46414D68	Family Data
FAMI	46414D49	Family Information
FAMt	8C870743	Family Ties
FCNS	46434E53	Global Tuning Values
FPL	AB4BA572	Fence Post Layer
FWAV	46574156	Audio Reference
FX	EA5118B0	Effects Resource Tree
GLOB	474C4F42	Glabal Data
GMDC	AC4F8687	Geometric Data Container
GMND	7BA3838C	Geometric Node
HLS	7B1ACFCD	Hitlist (TS2 format)
HOUS	484F5553	House Data
JFIF	4D533EDD	JPEG/JFIF Image
JFIF	856DDBAC	JPEG/JFIF Image
JFIF	8C3CE95A	JPEG/JFIF Image
JFIF	0C7E9A76	JPEG/JFIF Image
LDEF	0BF999E7	Lot or Tutorial Description
LGHT	C9C81B9B	Lighting (Ambient Light)
LGHT	C9C81BA3	Lighting (Directional Light)
LGHT	C9C81BA9	Lighting (Point Light)
LGHT	C9C81BAD	Lighting (Spot Light)
LIFO	ED534136	Level Information
LOT	6C589723	Lot Definition
NHTG	ABCB5DA4	Neighbourhood Terrain Geometry
LxNR	CCCEF852	Facial Structure
MATSHAD	CD7FE87A	Maxis Material Shader
MOBJT	6F626A74	Main Lot Objects
MP3	2026960B	MP3 Audio
NGBH	4E474248	Neighborhood Data
NHTR	ABD0DC63	Neighborhood Terrain
NHVW	EC44BDDC	Neighborhood View
NID	AC8A7A2E	Neighbourhood ID
NMAP	4E6D6150	Name Map
NREF	4E524546	Name Reference
OBJD	4F424A44	Object Data
OBJf	4F424A66	Object Functions
ObJM	4F626A4D	Object Metadata
OBJT	FA1C39F7	Singular Lot Object
OBMI	4F626A4D	Object Metadata Imposter
PALT	50414C54	Image Color Palette
PDAT	AACE2EFB	Person Data (Formerly SDSC/SINF/SDAT)
PERS	50455253	Person Status
PMAP	8CC0A14B	Predictive Map
PNG	856DDBAC	PNG Image
Popups	2C310F46	Unknown
POSI	504F5349	Edith Positional Information (deprecated)
PTBP	50544250	Package Toolkit
SFX	8DB5E4C2	Sound Effects
SHPE	FC6EB1F7	Shape
SIMI	53494D49	Sim Information
SKIN	AC506764	Sim Outfits
SLOT	534C4F54	Object Slot
SMAP	CAC4FC40	String Map
SPR2	53505232	Sprites
SPX1	2026960B	SPX Speech
SREL	CC364C2A	Sim Relations
STR#	53545223	Text String
STXR	ACE46235	Surface Texture
TATT	54415454	Tree Attributes
TGA	856DDBAC	Targa Image
TMAP	4B58975B	Lot or Terrain Texture Map
TPRP	54505250	Edith SimAntics Behavior Labels
TRCN	5452434E	Behavior Constant Labels
TREE	54524545	Tree Data
TSSG	BA353CE1	The Sims SG System
TTAB	54544142	Pie Menu Functions
TTAs	54544173	Pie Menu Strings
TXMT	49596978	Material Definitions
TXTR	1C4A276C	Texture
UI	00000000	User Interface
VERT	CB4387A1	Vertex Layer
WFR	CD95548E	Wants and Fears
WGRA	0A284D0B	Wall Graph
WLL	8A84D7B0	Wall Layer
WRLD	49FF7D76	World Database
XA	2026960B	XA Audio
XMTO	584D544F	Material Object Class Dump
XOBJ	584F424A	Object Class Dump
UNK	0C900FDB	Unknown
UNK	0F9F0C21	Unknown (from Nightlife)
UNK	8B0C79D6	Unknown
UNK	9D796DB4	Unknown
UNK	AB9406AA	Unknown
UNK	CC2A6A34	Unknown
UNK	CC8A6A69	Unknown

This article is imported from the old MTS2 wiki. It's original page, with comments, can be found at http://old_wiki.modthesims2.com/FormatsByName