Project Priorities

Project Priorities

This checklist tracks the implementation status of Infinity Engine resource types, prioritized by their importance to the core goal of a game editor.

1. Infrastructure & Core Data (Critical)

These resources are required to locate files, read strings, or interpret basic game rules.

• KEY (Index) - Confirmed Working
  • The master index (CHITIN.KEY) mapping ResRefs to BIF locations.
• BIF (Archive) - Confirmed Working
  • Binary Information File. Holds the actual data.
• TLK (String Table) - Confirmed Working
  • Lookup table for all text in the game. Essential for displaying names/descriptions.
• 2DA (2D Array) - Confirmed Working (Handler Implemented)
  • Text-based tables defining game rules.
• IDS (Identifiers) - Confirmed Working (Handler Implemented)
  • Maps integer IDs to symbolic names.

2. Game Objects (The "Forge" Core)

The primary entities users edit.

• ITM (Item) - Confirmed Working
  • Weapons, armor, consumables.
• SPL (Spell) - Confirmed Working
  • Magic spells and innate abilities.
• CRE (Creature) - Confirmed Working
  • Actors, enemies, and NPCs.
• STO (Store)
  • Merchant inventories and container definitions.
• EFF (Effect)
  • External effect definitions.
• ARE (Area) - Confirmed Working
  • Defines actors, containers, traps, and regions.
• WED (World Environment) - Confirmed Working
  • Visual map definitions (overlays, door polygons).

3. Narrative & World (High Complexity)

Resources defining the game world, plot, and logic.

• DLG (Dialog)
  • Conversation trees and triggers.
• BCS (Bytecode Script)
  • Compiled AI scripts.
• WMAP (World Map)
  • The overworld map and travel times.

4. Audiovisual Assets (Media)

Standard or proprietary media formats.

• BMP (Bitmap)
  • Portraits and textures.
• WAV (Wave Audio)
  • Sound effects.
• BAM (Bitmap Animation)
  • Sprite animations (RLE compressed).
• MOS (Mosaic)
  • Background images.
• TIS (Tileset)
  • The graphical tiles creating the map visual.

5. UI & Configuration

Interface layouts and system settings.

• INI (Configuration)
  • Text-based settings.
• CHU (UI Layout)
  • Legacy UI layout format.
• GUI (UI Definition)
  • Enhanced Edition UI definition.

6. Save Games (Stretch Goal)

Editing save states is low priority.

• GAM (Game Party)
  • Party roster, global variables, journal entries.
• SAV (Save Archive)
  • Compressed BIFF containing the GAM and CRE files.

7. Miscellaneous / Unknown Applicability

Types that are obscure, internal, or legacy.

• MAZE, TOH, TOT, VAR, VEF, WBM, WFX, SRC