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Ken Silverman's File Formats and specifications directly related to BUILD.

Note: There are more file formats and specs found in other archives, such as source downloads.

Ken's File Formats | Misc Formats

 

Filename and author Size (kb) Description
BUILD FILE FORMATS AND SPECIFICATIONS
Build Flags
Bruce A. Benko
3 Hexadecimal/Binary Info, I hope that this helps you out in understanding how a map (level) was made.

 

 

PALETTE.DAT Format
(C source)
Ken Silverman
2 .Art Colors

 

 

TABLES.DAT Format
(C source)
Ken Silverman
2 It contains mostly lookup tables for mathematical functions such as SIN...

 

 

MAP File Format
(source examples)
Ken Silverman, Oliver Kraus, Brad Kimmel, James Ferry
10 C, Borland, Map header C, Map Format C, Build Docs, V5 and 7 file formats.

 

 

GRP File Spec
(C and Pascal source)
Oliver Kraus
4 .grp file specs, 11-22-99
This document is intended as a small guide to the .GRP file specifications.

Was written before Ken released his GRP src. Ken notes these specs tend to make it look more complicated than it really is.

 

 

Art File Format
(some C source)
Ken Silverman, "Kokak"
5 .art Format.
Includes Doom textures towards Duke3D C code, 11-22-99

 

 

GRP and ART Formats
Ken Silverman, Jonah Bishop
4.45 .GRP Specs and .ART format, 1-01-2000

 

 

MISC FILE FORMATS
Anm File Format (Pascal source)
Electronic Arts, "Samiel"
7 .Anm format. DeluxePaint Animation. .ANM File Viewer, 3-29-2000

 

 

.PCX file format
ZSoft
16 PCX File Format Technical Reference Manual, 5-10-94

 

 

.Voc file format
Creative
6 Voice (VOC) file format, 4-9-99